Teams with Lock status have at least a 95% chance to make the tournament, according to the BPI forecast. (Yes, this means that 5% of the time, a team marked as a lock will miss the tourney. We set the threshold there as a nod to the traditional standard for significance testing.)

Conference tournament action continues ramping up across the country on Thursday, as the West Coast Conference and Missouri Valley each begin their league tournaments. As those leagues tip things off,