Selection Sunday is live
Selection Sunday is happening tonight — 31 automatic bids are locked and the committee will fill the remaining 37 at‑large spots to complete the 68‑team NCAA men’s field [][]. Printable brackets and live national coverage are queued up for the reveal tonight [].
[Duke won]espn.com the ACC tournament on March 14, clinching the conference’s automatic berth. Duke is being treated as the presumptive No. 1 seed in several bracket projections.espn.com [Arizona beat]espn.com Houston 79–74 to take the Big 12 title on March 14, extending the Wildcats’ winning streak to nine games heading into the NCAA field. Koa [Peat scored]espn.com 21 points in the Big 12 final.espn.com Queens University of [Charlotte won]asunsports.org the ASUN tournament in overtime for the program’s first-ever NCAA berth, with Chris Ashby hitting a tournament-record 10 three-pointers in the title game. High [Point repeated]highpointpanthers.com as Big South tournament champion and finished the season with 30 wins.wfmynews2.com Bracketologists differ on the final at-large cut line: Fox Sports’ projection lists VCU, SMU, Texas and New Mexico as the “Last Four In.”foxsports.com ESPN’s Bubble Watch groups teams into “Locks,” “Should be in,” and teams “Sweating out Selection Sunday” to track about 37 at-large berths.espn.com The tournament opens with the First Four at UD Arena in Dayton on March 17–18, where four play-in winners will advance to the Round of 64 starting March 19.ncaa.com CBS and other outlets’ bracketology mock-ups already project potential seed lines — for example, CBS’s latest mock bracket places Duke as a 1-seed with several 11–16 seed pairings mapped out for Selection Sunday’s reveal.cbssports.com
