The T-Rank function on BartTorvik.com will be used for the first time this season on the team sheets examined by NCAA Tournament committee. Bart Torvik is a Madison native and lawyer who created the metric for ranking teams, which emphasizes recent results and takes out “garbage time” stats from late in blowout games. MU is No. 32 in T-Rank.

Houston is 23-4 overall and first place (15-1 record) in the Big 12 Conference entering Monday's game at Texas Tech. Three of Houston's losses have come in overtime.

Here's a look at the projected 2025 NCAA Tournament bracket, including No. 1 seeds, the last four in and the first four out:

There are about three weeks to go until Selection Sunday on March 16, and the Bubble Watch picture for the 2025 men's NCAA tournament continues to sharpen as 32 teams have achieved at least a 95% chance to make the tournament in ESPN Analytics' tourney forecast model,

The Buckeyes are now 15-12 and that record is not good enough to get in the NCAA Tournament. That LA trip is now of vital importance to Ohio State. The SEC has been the dominant conference in college basketball this season,