Welcome to the final stretch. Selection Sunday is less than a month away. Most teams have just a handful of regular-season games left and, for now, we can only assume conference tournaments are proceeding as usual. We know Gonzaga and Baylor can sleep comfortably as the top two teams right now, but the rest of the field is still a bit muddy, with the nature of this season leading to some big variance in strength of schedule, and way fewer games played across the board at this point in mid-February.
From the No. 1 seed line down to the outskirts of the bubble, here’s a look at some of the teams with quite a bit at stake over the next few weeks.