Women's basketball has not slowed down at all this season as March Madness arrives. A year ago, the women’s NCAA championship game drew a bigger television audience than the men’s title game for the first time, with an average of 18.9 million viewers watching undefeated South Carolina beat Iowa and superstar Caitlin Clark.

Teams with Lock status have at least a 95% chance to make the tournament, according to the BPI forecast. (Yes, this means that 5% of the time, a team marked as a lock will miss the tourney. We set the threshold there as a nod to the traditional standard for significance testing.)

No matter how the rest of the season or the SEC Tournament pans out for the Auburn Tigers, they will be heading to the NCAA Tournament, likely as a No. 1 seed. Bruce Pearl’s group has held down the No.

The countdown to March Madness is on. The beloved annual tradition that is the NCAA Tournament will begin in just a few weeks.

Madness is just around the corner, and fans are eagerly anticipating the NCAA Tournament bracket reveal so that they can find out which men’s and women’s college basketball teams will compete for the national championship title.

The NCAA has recently discussed the possibility of expanding March Madness from its current format of 68 teams to a 72 or 76-team field in the coming years. The goal is to add more play-in games before the field of 64 tournament officially starts on the Thursday following Selection Sunday.