The T-Rank function on BartTorvik.com will be used for the first time this season on the team sheets examined by NCAA Tournament committee. Bart Torvik is a Madison native and lawyer who created the metric for ranking teams, which emphasizes recent results and takes out “garbage time” stats from late in blowout games. MU is No. 32 in T-Rank.

Houston is 23-4 overall and first place (15-1 record) in the Big 12 Conference entering Monday's game at Texas Tech. Three of Houston's losses have come in overtime.

Here's the latest bracketology projects for Auburn basketball as it heads into the closing stretch of its regular season.

Here's a look at the projected 2025 NCAA Tournament bracket, including No. 1 seeds, the last four in and the first four out: