ESPN’s Joe Lunardi released his latest Bracketology rankings Tuesday, mentioning a number of area schools in (and just outside) the tournament’s field of 68. As of Tuesday, the SEC and Big Ten are among the most dominant conferences in the country, combining for 23 teams in the projected field.

When there is that big of a pileup of losses, the seed movements are not very dramatic. Only Michigan State, one of the big winners, moved up two-seed lines. All of the other seed changes were just one line up or down.

Two Saturdays ago, Bubba Cunningham sat on national television saying that Michigan State was close to making the Division I Men’s Basketball Committee’s top 16 teams in an early look at the NCAA tournament bracket.