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.

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,

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.

The conference is an obvious winner after setting a men's NCAA tournament record with 14 teams in the 2025 edition of March Madness. Only South Carolina and LSU fell short of the tournament as they combined to win just five SEC games.

Winning the best conference in college basketball should give a team a little more confidence heading into the NCAA Tournament, but in the case of the Florida Gators the committee handed the SEC champions a challenging road to the Final Four.

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.

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.