Every win matters when you're sitting on the outside looking in.
That's the case for Hubert Davis' North Carolina Tar Heels, who are fresh off an impressive 92-73 win over Miami on Saturday. With the victory, UNC improved to 19-11 overall and are squarely on the bubble heading into the final week of the college basketball regular season.
What other big-name programs are sitting on the bubble right now?
FOX Sports bracket forecaster Mike DeCourcy's is here to answer that and more with his latest NCAA Tournament projections.
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Auburn, Duke, Alabama and Houston remain on the 1-line in DeCourcy's latest projections. The Crimson Tide remained a No. 1 seed despite falling to Tennessee on Saturday.
Wisconsin, Tennessee, Florida and Michigan State make up the No. 2 seeds, while St. John's, Michigan, Iowa State and Texas Tech land on the 3-line.
Texas A&M, Kentucky, Purdue and Missouri are listed as No. 4 seeds in DeCourcy's latest projections.
As for the bubble, DeCourcy has Wake Forest, North Carolina, Xavier and Boise State as his first four teams out, with SMU, Texas, UC Irvine and Cincinnati listed as DeCourcy's next four teams out of the NCAA Tournament.
Here's a full look at DeCourcy’s latest projections:
No. 1 seeds
1. Auburn
2. Duke
3. Alabama
4. Houston
No. 2 seeds
5. Tennessee
6. Florida
7. Michigan State
8. Wisconsin
No. 3 seeds
9. St. John’s
10. Iowa State
11. Michigan
12. Texas Tech
No. 4 seeds
13. Kentucky
|14. Texas A&M
15. Purdue
16. Missouri
No. 5 seeds
17. Clemson
18. Arizona
19. Marquette
20. Maryland
No. 6 seeds
21. Oregon
22. Louisville
23. Mississippi State
24. Memphis
No. 7 seeds
25. Saint Mary’s
26. Kansas
27. UCLA
28. Ole Miss
No. 8 seeds
29. BYU
30. Illinois
31. Gonzaga
32. Creighton
No. 9 seeds
33. Vanderbilt
34. Connecticut
35. New Mexico
36. San Diego State
No. 10 seeds
37. Utah State
38. West Virginia
39. Georgia
40. Baylor
No. 11 seeds
41. Indiana
42. Drake
43. VCU
44. Ohio State v. 45. Oklahoma
No. 12 seeds
46. Arkansas v. 47. Nebraska
48. UC San Diego
49. Yale
50. Liberty
No. 13 seeds
51. McNeese
52. Akron
53. High Point
54. Arkansas State
No. 14 seeds
55. Lipscomb
56. Utah Valley
57. Chattanooga
58. Towson
No. 15 seeds
59. Montana
60. Central Connecticut
61. Robert Morris
62. Norfolk State
No. 16 seeds
63. Bryant
64. Quinnipiac
65. Southeast Missouri State
66. Southern
67. Omaha
68. American
Michael DeCourcy covers college basketball for FOX Sports with an emphasis on NCAA Tournament bracket projections. He has appeared on FOX Sports college basketball game broadcasts, while also serving as a college basketball studio analyst with Big Ten Network. He has been covering college basketball for nearly three decades at the Sporting News. You can follow him at @tsnmike.
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