Indiana basketball March Madness bracket predictions for 2025 NCAA Tournament

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BLOOMINGTON — The Indiana basketball team spent the weekend scoreboard watching instead of playing.

The Hoosiers best chance of boosting their NCAA Tournament résumé heading into Selection Sunday was rattling off a couple wins in the Big Ten Tournament, but they went one and done with a loss to Oregon and ended up having to cheer against any potential bid-stealers.

Indiana got mostly good news on that front — the Atlantic 10 and the AAC are the last two conferences left with would-be bid thieves — and many of the bubble teams (Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas, North Carolina and West Virginia) they are competing against for a spot suffered a similar fate in their conference tournaments.

Are the Hoosiers in or out? Here are our predictions ahead of ESPN’s Selection Sunday show at 6 p.m.:

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Indiana basketball NCAA Tournament résumé

Overall record (conference): 19-13 (10-10 Big Ten)Road record: 5-5Net ranking: 54Quad 1: 4-13Best win: Michigan State (No. 11 NET Ranking)Worst loss: Iowa (No. 63)Strength of schedule: 19

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Where will Indiana basketball land in the NCAA Tournament bracket?

Herald-Times’ Michael Niziolek: Will Indiana be one of the last teams in? Or first teams out? The Hoosiers are the pure definition of a bubble team this year with most bracketologists listing them in one category or the other. They are Dayton-bound at a likely No. 11 seed if they make the field, but that’s a big if right now.

There isn’t much daylight between IU’s résumé and the other teams on the bubble. It’s not hard to picture the Hoosiers getting a nod over the likes of Xavier — the Musketeers were 1 of 9 against Quad 1 teams — and Boise St. — Broncos lost games to Quad 3 and Quad 4 opponents, but it’s a harder argument to make when their résumé is put up next to a Vanderbilt team that has double the number of…

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Publish date : 2025-03-16 08:02:00

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