We’ve made it. Selection Sunday is here.

A glorious day needs no preamble. It does, however, need a viewing guide of sorts.

We’ve got a ton of NCAA Tournament pieces to sort through. We’ve got conference title games, bid-stealers, seed jockeying and Twitter arguments to navigate by the time the bracket is unveiled at 6 p.m. ET on CBS.

Here are the 10 biggest storylines ahead of the 2024 edition of Selection Sunday:

1. Does the last 1-seed belong to … anyone?

UNC losing to Cinderella NC State in the ACC Championship put the closing touch on a week of nobody snatching that final 1-seed. By “final” 1-seed, I’m referring to UConn, Purdue and Houston owning the 3 others, though Purdue and Houston both fell on Saturday. UNC is probably still on that 1-line because unlike Tennessee, who appeared to be in direct competition with the Heels, it at least made a run to the conference title game. UNC just ran into the buzzsaw that is DJ Burns and the Wolfpack.

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2. The impact of the SEC’s top-3 seeds going one-and-done in Nashville

Speaking of Tennessee, for the first time since 1983, all 3 of the SEC’s top seeds were 1-and-done in the conference tournament. Like, none of them even reached the SEC Tournament semifinals. One would expect Tennessee to be locked into a 2-seed. As for Kentucky and Alabama, the difference between a 3 and 4-seed might be significant. Despite John Calipari saying that the conference tournament didn’t matter, that was a troubling development for seeding purposes. The SEC is a conference without a Final Four team since 2019 Auburn, and the path to get there likely got more difficult. No team has ever lost its opening game of the conference tournament and gone on to win a national title.

3. See No. 2, but apply it to Duke

Duke was one of the many who fell victim to the NC State buzzsaw. Besides perhaps single-handily knocking Virginia out of the field with a 3 to force overtime, NC State might’ve also changed things significantly for Duke by winning that quarterfinal matchup. Will Duke drop to a 4-seed and face that ever-daunting potential 1-4 matchup in the Sweet 16? Maybe that’ll be determined by what happens with Illinois in the Big Ten Championship.

4. Does the selection committee give Wisconsin or Illinois a chance to have a conference title valued?

It often feels like by the time the SEC and Big Ten decide their conference champions on Sunday, the bracket is locked in. The question is how that’ll impact a pair of teams who are in that 3-6 range. One would think that the Illini would stand to benefit from so many disappointing conference tournament showings from the elite squads. Then again, maybe the hay is already in the barn for a 4-seed. Or perhaps Wisconsin will take care of business and still be slotted on the 6-seed line having taken down Purdue and Illinois. Either way, set seeding expectations relatively low for the Big Ten Tournament winner.

5. Auburn’s bizarre résumé

It’s baffling to see a team with 1 Quad 1 win also be in the top 5 in both NET and KenPom. Perhaps more importantly for Bruce Pearl’s squad, it’s on the brink of a conference title. The last time he did that was when his 2019 squad caught fire late and parlayed that into a Final Four run. This year’s squad would like to repeat that, but the question is about what that road will look like. As I outlined with the Big Ten Championship, there’s skepticism about how much the Sunday conference tournament championships truly factor into seeding. Is Auburn’s weird résumé going to land it a 4-seed? Or if the Tigers win the SEC Championship, will the selection committee default more to NET and KenPom to justify a 3-seed? Anything is possible.

6. Will Robbie Avila and Indiana State go dancing? Please?

I’ll be honest. It’s been a bad weekend to be a bubble team. Surely Indiana State knows that. Between aforementioned NC State and the AAC developments, it was a long weekend to be on the bubble. In a year in which Indiana State has arguably its most recognizable player since Larry Bird in Avila, the Sycamores could be an early March victim after losing the Missouri Valley Conference championship game against Drake. In a year in which the knock on college basketball was its lack of personalities, not having someone like Avila in the field would be a frustrating development, to say the least.

7. The wide-ranging opinions over FAU’s seeding

If you’ve been paying close attention to Dusty May’s team, you know that there’s been a lot of discussion about the Owls’ seeding. After their Final Four berth, they entered the year as a top-10 squad and proceeded to both lose at home to Bryant and beat Arizona in Las Vegas before the calendar turned to 2024. It was perhaps fitting that FAU blew a chance at the AAC crown in the semifinals by losing to Temple for a Q3 loss. Including Bryant and Florida Gulf Coast, both of which were Quad 4 losses, FAU has 3 Quad 3/4 losses. As Seth Davis pointed out, the top 70 teams in the NET have lost a total of 11 Quad 4 games. FAU has 2 of those and is the only team with more than 1. Perhaps that explains why the Bracket Matrix variance is anywhere from 8-11.

8. The fact that 16-19 Temple could get into the field isn’t even the craziest thing about it

Speaking of that wild AAC semifinal matchup that sent FAU home early, Temple is wild, even for March. It’s not just that the Owls are sitting at 12-19 and are 1 win vs. UAB away from locking in an automatic bid as AAC champs. Temple was 11-19 when it made national headlines on March 9 for being the subject of a potential point-shaving scandal for suspicious line movement in a 100-72 loss to UAB. Since that story, all the Owls have done is win 5 straight, 4 of which were by 4 points or less. Heading into Selection Sunday, the question needs to be asked. How can one bet against Temple?

9. Brown, who was 6-17 in mid-February, has a chance to make the NCAA Tournament

OK, so there’s a good chance you haven’t been and still aren’t super dialed into the Ivy League (“The Back Roads to March” is an excellent read by John Feinstein if you’re ever into that sort of thing). No worries. Here’s all you need to know about the 1-bid league. On Selection Sunday, 13-17 Brown faces Yale for the Ivy League title. Like, a Brown squad that was 6-17 (!) in mid-February. It hadn’t won consecutive games all season, and has since ripped off 7 straight victories, including a semifinal victory over last year’s Cinderella, Princeton. Brown now has a win-and-in game on Sunday at noon ET. March, folks.

10. Will Rick Pitino and the Johnnies be dancing?

It’s been a herky-jerky Year 1 for Pitino in the Big Apple. A 14-12 start had “NIT” written all over it. But a 6-game win streak that ended with a loss to likely top-seed UConn in the Big East semifinals has St. John’s back in the conversation. The Johnnies appear to be firmly on the bubble. Did something like NC State or the AAC upsets burst that bubble? Or will Pitino lead his 6th different program to the NCAA Tournament? While NET (No. 34) and KenPom (No. 27) like Pitino’s chances, that feels like anyone’s guess after a wild Saturday.