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If the season ended today, how many local college basketball teams would make the NCAA tournament?
According to ESPN’s Joe Lunardi, five teams from in and around the D-FW area would make the field of 64.
Oklahoma is the highest ranked team at the No. 1 seed. Baylor would be in the same division as the Sooners with the Bears being the No. 6 seed in the South.
Lundari has the Texas Longhorns falling one spot to the 11th seed in the West division. Texas Tech also slid three spots from a No. 8 spot to the No. 11 seed in the East division. Texas A&M, however, rose two spots to the No. 3 seed.
Lundari also has each team’s odds of making it to the Sweet 16, Final Four and to win the championship, which can be found below.
Odds to make the Sweet 16
| Team | Odds |
| Oklahoma | 67.9 percent |
| Texas A&M | 53.2 percent |
| Baylor | 24.1 percent |
| Texas | 21.1 percent |
| Texas Tech | 15.0 percent |
| Texas Southern | 0.4 percent |
| Houston Baptist | 0.2 percent |
Odds to make the Final Four
| Team | Odds |
| Oklahoma | 24.6 percent |
| Texas A&M | 13.1 percent |
| Baylor | 5.0 percent |
| Texas | 2.0 percent |
| Texas Tech | 0.9 percent |
| Texas Southern | 0.0 Percent |
| Houston Baptist | 0.0 percent |
Odds to win the tournament
| Team | Odds |
| Oklahoma | 6.8 percent |
| Texas A&M | 2.6 percent |
| Baylor | 0.7 percent |
| Texas | 0.2 percent |
| Texas Tech | 0.1 percent |
| Texas Southern | 0.0 percent |
| Houston Baptist | 0.0 percent |
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