Heading into Conference Championship week we are seeing one of the final polls that will come out. On Sunday, teams will be picked for the NCAA tournament. If they want to make sure they get in, they really need to win their conference in a lot of cases. Some of the big 5 conferences have teams who are just vying for a higher seed but for the most part most of the smaller schools need to win their conference tournament in order to get an automatic bid into the tournament. There are 68 teams who will play in this years tournament with the very first round consisting of 4 play-in games. These games are used to wet our beak before the first round (and to give us more time to fill out our brackets. They will be played March 15-16 next week once the teams are picked.

Rank Team Record
1 Kansas 27-4
2 Michigan State 26-5
3 Villanova 27-4
4 Virginia 24-6
5 Xavier 26-4
6 Oklahoma 24-6
7 North Carolina 25-6
8 Oregon 25-6
9 West Virginia 24-7
10 Indiana 25-6
11 Miami 24-6
12 Utah 24-7
13 Purdue 24-7
14 Louisville 23-8
15 Arizona 24-7
16 Kentucky 23-8
17 Texas A&M 24-7
18 Maryland 24-7
19 Duke 22-9
20 Iowa 21-9
21 Iowa State 21-10
22 Baylor 21-10
23 Texas 20-11
24 California 22-9
25 SMU 25-5