{"id":188589,"date":"2026-03-03T16:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/188589\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T16:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:26:08","slug":"did-the-texas-longhorns-climb-off-ncaa-bubble-with-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/188589\/","title":{"rendered":"Did the Texas Longhorns climb off NCAA bubble with win?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By all accounts, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/hookem\/mens-basketball\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas basketball<\/a> made a big statement to the NCAA Tournament\u2019s selection committee with Saturday&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/college\/longhorns\/mens-basketball\/article\/texas-longhorns-basketball-score-today-texas-a-m-21850518.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">76-70 win<\/a> at Texas A&amp;M.<\/p>\n<p>The Longhorns (18-11, 9-7 SEC) climbed up two spots to a comfortable No. 37 in the Tuesday&#8217;s NCAA\u2019s NET rankings, which is a major component used by the selection committee when determining the March Madness field. They also improved to 7-8 in Quad One wins, another stat loved by those picking the 68-team field.<\/p>\n<p>In comparison, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/tamu\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">A&amp;M<\/a> has just four Quad One wins. The Aggies and Texas\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/college\/longhorns\/mens-basketball\/article\/texas-vs-texas-am-mbb-ncaa-sean-miller-21849915.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">entered Saturday\u2019s showdown<\/a> on equal footing based on the various NCAA Tournament projections, but the rivals\u2019 shared path seemed to split after the game. While a tournament spot for the Longhorns looks all but locked up entering Wednesday\u2019s game at No. 20 Arkansas, Texas A&amp;M remains firmly on the bubble.<\/p>\n<p>How do the NCAA Tournament prognosticators see the Longhorns entering this week? Let\u2019s take a look.<\/p>\n<p>According to Tuesday\u2019s latest NCAA Tournament projection from ESPN analyst\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/espn\/feature\/story\/_\/page\/bracketology\/ncaa-bracketology-2026-march-madness-men-field-predictions\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Lunardi<\/a>, the Longhorns remain a No. 10 seed despite the Quad One win in Aggieland. Lunardi projects Texas in the Midwest Region in Oklahoma City, where the Longhorns would face No. 7 Wisconsin in the first round. In this scenario, Texas would likely face No. 2 Houston in the second round with a win. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/bracketology\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CBS Sports\u2019 tournament<\/a> projections, Texas remains a No. 9 seed for the second straight week. CBS currently projects the Longhorns facing off against No. 8 Utah State in a first-round Midwest Region contest. With a win, Texas would advance to a possible second-round meeting with No. 1 Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>The SEC Tournament runs March 11-15. Selection Sunday is March 15.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By all accounts, Texas basketball made a big statement to the NCAA Tournament\u2019s selection committee with Saturday&#8217;s\u00a076-70 win&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2692,48876,19752,21172,3112,21171,27,29,537,13558,28],"class_list":["post-188589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-college-basketball","tag-march-madness","tag-men-s-college-basketball","tag-ncaa-buzz","tag-ncaa-tournament","tag-sec-men-s-basketball","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-texas-longhorns-basketball","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}