The Gonzaga men's basketball team has positioned itself for a top 3-seed in the NCAA Tournament with March less than a month away. In ESPN's latest NCAA Bracketology projections by Joe Lunardi, the Zags (18-4, 7-1 WCC) are projected to be the 3-seed in the Midwest region where they'd face 14-seed Belmont in the first round.

Following Kansas State's overtime win Tuesday over in-state rival Kansas, we have a new overall No. 1 seed. Purdue is now the top overall seed in the NCAA Tournament bracket projection. The Boilermakers have seven Quadrant 1 wins, the most of any team. The Jayhawks also have seven Quad 1 wins and that is a big reason why Kansas is still on the top line of the bracket as the No. 4 overall seed. Alabama is now No. 2 overall, while Houston remains No. 3. The Crimson Tide have one more loss than the Cougars, but have played a significantly better schedule and are the only team to beat them, having done so at Houston. Kansas State jumps up to the top No. 2 seed on the strength of that win over Kansas. The head-to-head result with Kansas – a win in overtime at home – is not enough to override the strength of the Jayhawks' overall resume.

Two weeks away from the start of the 38th Annual WOBM Christmas Classic the seeds and pairings for the basketball tournament have been announced. Head coaches for the 32 participating teams met Sunday at The Office Lounge in Toms River and were in near unanimous agreement when it came to the top teams in the revised holiday tournament held at the RWJBarnabas Health Arena and presented by Jersey Mike’s. On the boys side, Manasquan was the top seed in the eight-team Jim Ruhnke Bracket followed by St. John Vianney, Central and Brick Memorial. The Steve Gepp Bracket has Jackson Memorial seeded first with Freehold Township, Toms River North, and Red Bank Catholic grabbing the other top spots.

It has become an annual ritual where college basketball fans submit their brackets thinking this is the year that their bracket will be perfect. That hope usually goes away pretty early. Picking a perfect bracket is close to impossible. Even picking a perfect first round is nearly impossible. The odds of a perfect bracket is more than 1-in-9 quintillion (based on a coin flip).

Acknowledgements: NET rankings and records are accurate as of Sunday, March 6, 2022. Both reflect only games against Division I teams. Selection Sheet info is from WarrenNolan.com. Team logos are from Chris Creamer’s SportsLogos.net. Teams with a gold background have secured automatic bids. ✴️ = new bracket entrants ⬆️ and ⬇️ = bracket returnees’ seed movement relative to Saturday’s bracket (#) = Overall rank of the top 16 teams (top four seeds in each region)

The NCAA Tournament is one of the greatest championship events in all of sports, thanks to the upset-minded nature of the event, and how much energy people put into projecting the 68-team field. That practice has yielded its own word: bracketology, with any number of people attempting to nail down not just which teams will make the tournament, but what they'll be seeded and where they'll go. With that in mind, CBS Sports bracketologist Jerry Palm released his 2023 NCAA Tournament bracket this week.

Joe Lunardi updated his projected bracketology for the 2023 NCAA Tournament after the rosters have become mostly finalized. The season is right on deck, and we're about to get some answers on which offseason plans were correct. Arkansas' Eric Musselman earned a ton of praise this offseason for his aggressive retool. Michigan State's Tom Izzo got plenty of flack for sitting tight and not adding anyone out of the transfer portal.

NCAA Basketball season is approaching as fast as pumpkin spiced everything after September 1st. Practice has yet to begin and for some, that means talk of March and brackets is silly, but that doesn’t mean talking about some preseason storylines with an eye towards Selection Sunday and the NCAA Tournament. The 2022 tournament was the perfect way to bring the sport back to a sense of normalcy after having two years impacted by Covid.

CBS Sports' Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander surveyed roughly 100 coaches for our annual Candid Coaches series. They polled everyone from head coaches at elite programs to assistants at small Division I schools. In exchange for complete anonymity, coaches provided unfiltered honesty about a number of topics. This is the final poll question in our summer survey on the state of college basketball. The NCAA is in the process of overhauling its rulebook and infrastructure, a mammoth undertaking by the Division I Transformation Committee that will redefine and (ideally) streamline what it means to be a D-I program moving forward. College basketball stands to be impacted by this in significant, if still undetermined, ways. For as much worry, intrigue and curiosity that exists over what's to come, those feelings are buttressed against the thrum of the past five years. College basketball has undergone -- through fits and starts -- constant change and been hit with a barrage of off-the-court headlines and legislative reworks that have kept the sport somewhat off-balance. It started almost five years ago to the day, when the FBI announced its covert investigation into bribery and fraud in recruiting. Since then, a Mark Emmert-appointed commission was formed, mostly didn't do anything to change basketball, and dissolved. The IARP was formed, has only adjudicated one case to date, and will be disbanded come 2023. NIL legislation, the transfer portal, a global pandemic, new transfer rules, emergence of the G League and Overtime Elite, conference realignment and even Baylor winning a national title have all transpired in recent years. What was once unthinkable became reality. It would be an exaggeration to state college basketball is at a crossroads. But it's a tender time -- depending on the lens one looks through. Our final question in this year's series is a sport-wide temperature check.

It has become an annual ritual where college basketball fans submit their brackets thinking this is the year that their bracket will be perfect. That hope usually goes away pretty early. Picking a perfect bracket is close to impossible. Even picking a perfect first round is nearly impossible. The odds of a perfect bracket is more than 1-in-9 quintillion (based on a coin flip).