Welcome to Selection Sunday, everyone.
The 68-team NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament field will be unveiled on CBS on Sunday evening. The Selection Show is set to air at 6 p.m. E.T. The No. 1 seeds appear to be locked up, but the bottom of the field is always an interesting debate.
Who will be the last teams into the field? Which teams will be playing in the First Four on Tuesday and Wednesday night?
We'll find out tonight.
Ahead of the Selection Show, ESPN's computer model, the Basketball Power Index, has released its final Top 25 heading into the NCAA Tournament.
Here's the top 25, via ESPN's computer model:
- Duke
- Michigan
- Arizona
- Houston
- Florida
- Iowa State
- Illinois
- Gonzaga
- Purdue
- UConn
- Louisville
- Tennessee
- Michigan State
- Vanderbilt
- Alabama
- St. John's
- Nebraska
- BYU
- Arkansas
- Virginia
- Kansas
- Texas Tech
- Kentucky
- Wisconsin
- UCLA
The BPI is a projection-based model.
"The College Basketball Power Index (BPI) is a measure of team strength that is meant to be the best predictor of performance going forward. BPI represents how many points above or below average a team is. Strength of Record (SOR) is a measure of team accomplishment based on how difficult a team's W-L record is to achieve. Game predictions account for opponent strength, pace of play, site, travel distance, day's rest and altitude, and are used to simulate the season 10,000 times to produce season projections. Numbers update daily," it states.
This story was originally published by The Spun on Mar 15, 2026, where it first appeared in the College Basketball section. Add The Spun as a Preferred Source by clicking here.