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 the question top of mind for many fans is: Will your team be in or out? Teams have roughly four weeks until Selection Sunday to strengthen their cases. 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 that…