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.)

Selection Sunday is around the corner for men’s college basketball. Before the 2025 NCAA tournament bracket is announced on March 16, some of the sport’s biggest names are still fighting to get off the bubble and into the field.

On a senior night in which Auburn could complete a season sweep of Alabama for the first time since the 2021-2022 season, the Tigers and Tide stampeded out of the gates in a high-scoring affair. The road team struck first,