The most anticipated \u2014 and nerve-racking \u2014 day on the college basketball calendar has arrived.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Once the final five conference tournaments crown their champions, the attention turns to the unveiling of the 68-team field for this year\u2019s NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In his latest bracket projections, FOX Sports bracket forecaster Mike DeCourcy has Duke, Florida, Michigan and Arizona as No. 1 seeds. Michigan, Duke and Arizona have separated themselves from the pack over the course of the season and appear firmly positioned to remain on the top line, while Florida is projected to hold onto the final No. 1 seed despite an unexpected loss to Vanderbilt in the SEC Tournament semifinal round.<\/p>\n
While those four programs won\u2019t be sweating when the bracket is revealed, the same can\u2019t be said for Miami (OH). The RedHawks finished the regular season with a perfect 31-0 record but suffered a stunning upset to UMass in their first game of the MAC Tournament.<\/p>\n
Now the question looming over Selection Sunday: Will Miami (OH)\u2019s remarkable season be enough to earn an at-large bid to the Big Dance?<\/p>\n
With that, DeCourcy shares his latest NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament projections:<\/p>\n
EAST REGION SOUTH REGION
MIDWEST REGION
WEST REGION
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As for the bubble, Miami (OH), Missouri, SMU<\/a> and Texas are the last four teams in the tournament, according to DeCourcy’s latest projections, while San Diego State, Auburn, Oklahoma and New Mexico are the first four out.<\/p>\n As for conference representation, the SEC<\/a>\u00a0leads the way with 10 teams, while the Big Ten<\/a>\u00a0has nine teams. The ACC<\/a> and the Big 12<\/a>\u00a0each have eight teams in DeCourcy’s latest tournament projections. The Big East<\/a>\u00a0and the West Coast<\/a> have three teams represented, while the A-10<\/a>\u00a0and MAC have two teams.<\/p>\n The complete 68-team NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament will be revealed at 6 p.m. ET on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The most anticipated \u2014 and nerve-racking \u2014 day on the college basketball calendar has arrived.\u00a0 Once the final…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2527,8294,2516,2530,2535,2514,2523,123,23531,125,124,2522,2520,2519,27004,10254],"class_list":["post-192678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-arizona-wildcats","tag-college-basketball","tag-duke-blue-devils","tag-florida-gators","tag-gonzaga-bulldogs","tag-houston-cougars","tag-illinois-fighting-illini","tag-miami","tag-miami-oh-redhawks","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-michigan-wolverines","tag-purdue-boilermakers","tag-uconn-huskies","tag-vanderbilt-commodores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} <\/p>\n
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