ESPN’s Joe Lunardi released his latest Bracketology rankings Tuesday, mentioning a number of area schools in (and just outside) the tournament’s field of 68. As of Tuesday, the SEC and Big Ten are among the most dominant conferences in the country, combining for 23 teams in the projected field.

When there is that big of a pileup of losses, the seed movements are not very dramatic. Only Michigan State, one of the big winners, moved up two-seed lines. All of the other seed changes were just one line up or down.

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.

The Oregon Ducks men's basketball team is projected as a No. 5 seed in the NCAA Tournament and would end up playing the Drake Bulldogs in the first round at the Ball Arena in Denver, Colorado. Drake i

Gonzaga has an unusual tournament résumé. No team in the at-large pool has a big of a difference between how the predictive metrics measure it than the resume quality metrics do. The predictive metrics have the Bulldogs at 11.

In two prominent NCAA Tournament bracket projection websites, Houston is in different regions in both. ESPN’s Joe Lunardi, in his latest “Bracketology” released