The NCAA will also stream games via its March Madness Live option. The top three betting favorites as March approaches (in order) are Auburn, Duke and Houston, according to BetMGM Sportsbook.

Texas men's basketball's NCAA Tournament chances took a brutal shot after a loss to South Carolina, the last place team in the SEC.

Teams with Lock status have at least a 95% chance to make the tournament, according to the BPI forecast. (Yes, this means that 5% of the time, a team marked as a lock will miss the tourney. We set the threshold there as a nod to the traditional standard for significance testing.)

Women's basketball has not slowed down at all this season as March Madness arrives. A year ago, the women’s NCAA championship game drew a bigger television audience than the men’s title game for the first time, with an average of 18.9 million viewers watching undefeated South Carolina beat Iowa and superstar Caitlin Clark.

Clemson is trending as a No. 5 seed in the latest NCAA Tournament projections, setting up Brad Brownell’s Tigers for a potential deep NCAA Tournament run.

No matter how the rest of the season or the SEC Tournament pans out for the Auburn Tigers, they will be heading to the NCAA Tournament, likely as a No. 1 seed. Bruce Pearl’s group has held down the No.