Men's Bubble Watch: Tracking which teams will make (or miss) the NCAA tournament

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The 2026 men's NCAA tournament is rapidly approaching, which means it's time to turn our attention to the biggest burning question: Will your team be in or out? It has roughly six weeks until Selection Sunday to answer that query. Until then, we're here to track how each team on the "bubble" of the bracket is trending.

We'll use a variety of metrics as guides, classifying teams based on how likely they are to make the field of 68 as one of the 37 at-large selections -- conditional on not winning their respective conference tournaments for one of the 31 automatic qualifying bids (AQs). To…