Welcome to Selection Sunday! A season’s worth of work comes down to today, as the NCAA tournament selection committee picks the 68 teams that will continue their seasons into March Madness next week. 

Before the selection show at 6 p.m. ET, five final conferences have automatic bids to the Big Dance to lock up, so here’s a look at some notes from Saturday’s games and a few thoughts on what to watch on Sunday. Once those results go final, will have one final projected bracket with all automatic bids properly accounted for, so stay tuned.

Notes From Saturday’s Games:Kansas’s loss in the Big 12 title game to Texas means the Jayhawks stay as ’s projected No. 3 overall team, with Alabama holding serve at No. 1 overall and Houston right behind them at No. 2. Had Kansas won, the Jayhawks likely would have jumped both and become the projected overall No. 1. It wouldn’t be surprising for any of these three teams to get that top spot. Kansas has the most to gain, given how much of a home-court advantage a potential regional in Kansas City in the second weekend might offer.

Meanwhile, Purdue regains the fourth No. 1 seed from UCLA after the Bruins lost a heartbreaker to Arizona. The committee is likely looking for reasons to justify dropping UCLA down given Jaylen Clark’s absence for the remainder of the season, but’s it’s possible contingencies are in play to bump the Bruins back above Purdue if the Boilermakers lose Sunday to Penn State.

This year will officially not feature a bid stealer, as FAU handled business in the C-USA tournament and surprising runs from Vanderbilt and Ohio State in their respective tournaments ended Saturday. That’s good news for Pittsburgh, Oklahoma State and Nevada, the three teams fighting for the last spot in ’s projected field.

Penn State will be a good test case for how much the committee values conference tournament and late-season results generally. The Nittany Lions have picked up five Quad 1 wins since March 1, transforming their résumé from mediocre to rather strong. has Penn State as a No. 9 seed, but there’s a case to be made that it should be higher.

In general, the 12–14 seed lines are the strongest I’ve seen in several years. Even in leagues that didn’t send No. 1 seeds to the NCAA tournament, we often got strong squads with rosters capable of winning a game. That continued Saturday with the likes of Kent State, Iona and UCSB punching tickets to the Big Dance.