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28 years since Georgia Tech has been crowned the champions of this conference at this moment Bears first time stop.

First time at Texas wins the Big 12 Championship.

We have waited over 700 days for another N C A A tournament, and now we're just hours away from the 2021 field being set.

Yesterday, 15 teams punched tickets to ending, making it 26 overall.

Today, the final five conferences will award their conference finals.

Automatic bids before the bracket is revealed late in the day.

Get pumped up and Jay Bilas joins us now on SportsCenter to talk about it now.

We're five games away from the end of the college basketball regular season.

What's the one thing that stood out to you the most from championship week thus far?

I think Ryan is that Illinois deserves to be on the top tier with Gonzaga, Baylor and Michigan.

Michigan's got that injury to Isaiah Livers that could impact that top tier status.

They've got, I would assume you who's the best closer in college basketball.

He's got that black mask on now, looking like Batman.

And then they've got The Incredible Hulk and Kofi Coburn, who had 26 points against Iowa, and Luka Garza.

And they also have Trent Frazier, the lefty who is an excellent defender.

He can be a primary score if he has to be.

And Andre Curbelo is just a wizard with the ball, just a freshman.

And he's got next level ability and he's going to be a star in the future is a star right now.

I think Illinois has got national championship chops.

I'm not saying they're gonna win it, but they're one of the biggest threats to win it.

Okay, Joe Lunardi has has them as a projected number one seed.

The tournament field is going to be set later this afternoon.

Give us some under the radar teams that we aren't paying enough attention to.

Well, first among the big shots, I think it's Houston.

Kelvin Sampson has a really good team, you know, they're not a great shooting team, but they're really good offensive team because they get a ton of offensive rebounds.

Justin Gorham is an outstanding offensive rebounder, but all their guys go to the glass and they pursue the ball so they get a ton of second shots.

He's had an All America caliber season and then among the mid majors.

They don't like to be called that, but loyal to Chicago is really good again.

Porter Mosher has a great big guy in Cameron Krutwig.

He has Long wings and Lucas Williamson and a hair a Glock they can really defend.

They're going to be a single digit seed this year.

They went to the Final Four a few years ago as an 11 seed there, a single digit seed, and they are going to advance in the tournament.

The question is how far they're going to win games in this thing, because the Ramblers are very, very good.

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