Where Mississippi State basketball stands in updated March Madness bracket predictions

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STARKVILLE — The NCAA tournament is less than a month away and Mississippi State basketball appears to be locked into a third straight bid.

The No. 24 Bulldogs (19-8, 7-7 SEC) moved up in one of this week’s March Madness bracket predictions and stayed put in two others. They upset Texas A&M on Tuesday but then lost at Oklahoma on Saturday.

MSU plays at No. 6 Alabama (22-5, 11-3) on Tuesday (8 p.m., ESPN2) then hosts LSU (14-13, 3-11) at Humphrey Coliseum on Saturday (2:30 p.m., SEC Network).

Here’s a look at this week’s NCAA tournament projections.

Mississippi State basketball NCAA tournament projections

CBS Sports’ Jerry Palm bumped Mississippi State up one line to a No. 5 seed. He has the Bulldogs playing against No. 12 UC San Diego in Seattle. The winner would play either No. 4 Texas Tech or No. 13 Akron.

ESPN’s Joe Lunardi didn’t move Mississippi State off of a No. 7 seed. He matches it up with No. 10 San Diego State in Wichita, Kansas. The winner would play either No. 2 Houston or No. 15 Montana.

USA TODAY kept MSU as a No. 6 seed playing against No. 11 UC San Diego in Providence, Rhode Island. The winner would play either No. 3 St. John’s or No. 14 Towson.

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Mississippi State basketball’s NCAA tournament resume

Mississippi State bumped up one spot in the NCAA NET rankings from last week to No. 28. It reached No. 25 late last week before the loss at Oklahoma.

Texas A&M is MSU’s best win, according to the NET rankings. MSU is 0-6 against top 15 teams in the NET but 19-2 against everyone else.

Two of the Bulldogs’ final four games are Quad 1 against Alabama and Arkansas. Texas is slated as a Quad 2 game after it lost to South Carolina and LSU is projected as a Quad 3 game.

Mississippi State is No. 29 in the KenPom rankings as of Tuesday morning.

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