Barely a week before the field for the NCAA men’s basketball tournament is announced, the pressure is mounting for those teams on the margins of the projected tournament field.
Debate about which teams should make the field and how they will do in the tournament is rampant this time of the season.
We’ll do our part to fuel the arguments. The chart below features the top 76 teams in Joe Lunardi’s Bracketology (the 68 tournament teams, the first four out and the next four out) alongside ESPN’s rankings: the Basketball Power Index and Strength of Record.