NCAA Basketball NewsSunday, Mar 15, 2026

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Nyk Lewis finished with 17 points and 11 rebounds and No. 2 seed VCU beat fourth-seeded Dayton 70-62 on Sunday to win a second straight Atlantic 10 Conference Tournament and clinch a spot in the NCAA Tournament. VCU (27-7) will make its 21st March Madness appearance. The Rams made it all the way to the Final Four before losing in 2011. Lewis hit 4 of 5 shots from beyond the 3-point line but just 1 of 5 inside it for VCU. Reserves Terrence Hill Jr. and Michael Belle scored 14...

The 68-team NCAA Tournament bracket will be revealed on Selection Sunday, where a handful of bubble teams will anxiously await their names being called – or not.

Follow along here for brackets, schedules, automatic qualifiers and more for all 31 DI men's basketball conference tournaments ahead of the NCAA tournament for March Madness.

The 68-team reveal for the 2026 NCAA Tournament is ahead with teams still jockeying for final positioning in the field

The field is set. Go region by region and round by round to choose a national champion.

All the metrics, analytics and number crunching in the world cannot erase the most important statistic attached to the team that has captured college basketball's imagination and its curiosity leading into March Madness. Miami of Ohio's record is 31-1. The Redhawks were the first college basketball team in five years to enter their conference tournament with an undefeated record.

They had the resumes to be in the bracket, but these squads fell just short of making the 2026 NCAA Tournament.

SportsLine's college basketball model has called 25 first-round NCAA Tournament upsets by double-digit seeds

A tenacious defensive performance carried No. 13 St. John's to its second straight Big East tournament championship Saturday night with a 72-52 blowout of sixth-ranked UConn at Madison Square Garden.

Oscar Cluff scored 21 points as Purdue, which lost four of its last six regular-season games, topped No. 3 Michigan to win its first Big Ten tournament since 2023.

James Nnaji, the 7-foot center and 2023 NBA draft pick whose signing drew criticism from coaches across college basketball last month, debuted Saturday, scoring five points with four fouls in Baylor's 69-63 loss to TCU in the Big 12 opener for both teams.

Michigan was selected as the No. 1 seed of the Midwest Region in the 2026 men's NCAA tournament bracket. Watch the full Midwest Region reveal here from the 2026 March Madness selection show.