• Who will earn the No. 1 overall seed? Auburn, Duke or someone else?
• Click the photo to read the story. (Photo by Lance King/Getty Images)
• The only game that still matters for bubble teams is the AAC title game, where UAB represents a potential bid thief if they win. Memphis is considered safe to make the NCAA tourney either way.
• More on the latest bubble watch
• Here’s where we stand with a half to go in the final two men’s games before the selection show
• Her Hoops Stats projected 1 seeds:
• UCLA (overall 1)
• South Carolina
• USC
• Texas
• The final team to automatically qualify for the NCAA women’s tournament is likely the most unlikely.
• William & Mary was 11-18 in the regular season and was the 9 seed in the CAA tournament.
• First NCAA tourney appearance for the program!

William & Mary finished the regular season 11-18.

They went on a run to reach the @CAABasketball Championship.

They trailed 14-0 in the title game and came back to win.

Four wins in four days to send @WMTribeWBB dancing for the first time.

Anything can happen in March. pic.twitter.com/4NTk5KGf8W

— CBS Sports College Basketball 🏀 (@CBSSportsCBB) March 16, 2025

• Here’s where various bracket predictors stand just a couple hours before the selection show:
• Bracket Matrix
• Last 4 In: Vanderbilt, San Diego State, Indiana Texas
• First 4 Out: Boise State, Xavier, North Carolina Ohio State
• Jerry Palm
• Last 4 In: West Virginia, Indiana, San Diego State, Boise State
• First 4 Out: Xavier, Texas, North Carolina, Wake Forest
• Joe Lunardi
• Last 4 In: Vanderbilt, San Diego State, Indiana, Xavier
• First 4 Out: Boise State, Texas, North Carolina, Ohio State
• Only a month ago, BYU was on the fringes of the NCAA tournament bubble, but they’ve since caught fire. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
• Every March, there is always an NCAA tournament team that is glaringly more dangerous than the others on its seed line.
• It might be a juggernaut No. 1 seed that is the overwhelming favorite to cut down the nets. Or a mid-tier team that struggled early in the season but surged into March. Or a tournament-proven but criminally under-seeded mid-major with a history of making life miserable for highly touted teams from a power conference.
• The purpose of this now-annual column is to identify those potential opponents that NCAA tournament teams should want to avoid at all costs. Two years ago, we successfully identified Arkansas before the eighth-seeded Razorbacks toppled Kansas in the second round. Last year, we took some big swings and they didn’t really pan out. (Conversely, here are five opponents you should want to see on Selection Sunday.)
• This year’s list includes four teams with little in common besides the potential to induce groans from the opponents who have to face them. Let’s start with a projected No. 6 or 7 seed who last lost the day before Super Bowl Sunday.
• The madness begins on Selection Sunday (Mar. 16) with the Selection Committee revealing the full NCAA tournament bracket for both the men’s and women’s NCAA teams. The men’s bracket will be revealed at 6 p.m. ET.

Selection Sunday channel:

• Selection Sunday will see the men’s bracket unveiled at 6 p.m. ET on CBS. You can also catch the men’s brakcet reveal on ESPN, where the women’s reveal will follow shortly after.
• When the NCAA men’s basketball bracket is unveiled on Sunday evening, a few coaches may subtly fist-pump under the table.
• Maybe they landed in a region with a wobbly top-four seed with a fatal flaw they can expose. Or maybe they drew an opening-round opponent who peaked in December and is skidding into March.
• The purpose of this now-annual column is to identify those opponents NCAA tournament teams should want to draw before the bracket comes out. These are teams that, for whatever reason, don’t appear to be as strong as ones projected to receive similar seeds.
• Two years ago, this column identified Purdue more than a week before it became the second No. 1 seed ever to collapse in the first round. Last year, this column correctly pegged Kansas as ripe for an early exit but mostly swung and missed on the rest. We’ll hope for better results this time around.
• Here’s what college basketball legend Dick Vitale had to say on his battle with cancer and being able to call games again:
• “It’s been to me a miracle, really, to sit here with you guys, I can’t tell you how much it meant to me. It’s been unbelievable. Tough three years, those four cancer battles, I don’t wish on anybody. Cancer sucks. I’ll tell you this, anybody battling cancer, please listen. Think positive, always, and have faith and believe, and if you’re out there, a person who knows somebody with cancer, send them a text message. Make a phone call. The bottom line, it means so much.”
• Click the photo above to read the story. (Stew Milne/Getty Images)
• From NCAA’s Dan Gavitt when asked about Cooper Flagg’s availability: “What we understand from communication with Duke and the ACC is that Cooper Flagg will be available for the NCAA tournament, so don’t expect that to impact their seeding.”
• Click the photo above to read the story. (Jacob Kupferman/Getty Images)
• Click the photo above to read the story. (David Becker/Getty Images)