Five most undervalued teams heading into conference tournaments

March Madness is quickly approaching with just 13 days until Selection Sunday.

The projected 68-team bracket took a bit of a hit over the weekend with several seed-altering upsets for fighting for the final No. 1 seed, such as No. 8 Purdue going 0-2 on the week with losses to No. 13 Michigan State and Ohio State and Iowa State losing to Texas Tech.

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Several bubble teams saw their margin of error on making the field dwindle, looking at you, Auburn and Indiana.

March Madness bracket predictions: No. 1 seeds to first four out

There remain opportunities for teams to salvage or improve their respective NCAA Tournament resumes, as there remains a week left in the regular season for most conferences before teams ship out to their respective tournaments. The first conference tournament starts Monday, March 2 with the Horizon League, while the Big Ten will be the last one to finish just before the bracket reveal Sunday, March 15 at 6 p.m. ET.

But which teams have done some work on their March Madness picture that is going a bit unnoticed?

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Here’s a look at USA TODAY Sports predictions on which college basketball teams are underrated heading into the final week of the regular season and their respective conference tournaments:

Selection Sunday date, TV channel: When does March Madness bracket come out?

March Madness predictions: Underrated teams

For this March Madness prediction exercise, we’ve added the following filters and parameters: Team must be currently projected as a five seed or higher in ESPN Joe Lunardi’s and USA TODAY Sports’ latest projections, and their NET and KenPom rankings don’t align with their respective projected seeding.

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Michigan State

Projected seeding: No. 4 seed on ESPN | No. 4 seed on USA TODAY Sports

It’s March, never count out Michigan State and Tom Izzo. The Spartans gave the country an early reminder of that Thursday in West Lafayette when they walked out of Mackey Arena — where they had not won in their past seven trips…

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