The heavyweight conferences gobbled up the majority of at-large bids, a sign of their growing influence over the rest of the sport.

There will be a lot of pressure on the Southeastern Conference after accounting for 20 percent of the tournament field.

Five games remained Sunday afternoon before the NCAA men’s basketball committee renders its verdict on the 68-team field Sunday night. But most of the data was in by morning, most of the work done and most of the projections made.

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A historically dominant season from the SEC could mean as many as 14 teams end up making the field of 68 in the 2025 NCAA Tournament, and two of those teams are projected No. 1 seeds.  No. 1 overall should be Auburn,

Folks, we have made it to Selection Sunday and the release of the 2025 NCAA Tournament bracket. There are still championships to be played in the Big Ten and SEC, but once those wrap up, the focus turns to the NCAA Tournament Selection Show.

After losing their final three games of the regular season, they responded with wins over No. 20 Purdue and No. 11 Maryland to reach the conference title game, putting them in position to likely earn between a No. 3 and No. 5 seed, according to ESPN and CBS Sports’ bracketology.

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Printable bracket] A basketball fan has roughly a 1 in 120.2 billion chance of filling out a perfect NCAA tournament bracket. Those are about the same odds the NCAA men’s basketball selection committee has to unveil a new bracket without any nitpicking.

The last team in and first team out of the NCAA Tournament are always controversial picks. This year was no different. North Carolina, which just one Quad 1 victory, was the last team into the 68-team NCAA Tournament field.