The wait until Sunday surely will feel like forever for the Texas Longhorns, who left their home court just last week to Oklahoma fans chanting “NIT! NIT!” Now here they sit, a legitimate NCAA Tournament hopeful because of what they did in the SEC Tournament.

Alabama basketball lost to a better Florida team in the SEC Tournament, but how it lost was alarming ahead of the NCAA Tournament, March Madness.

Dan Gavitt, the NCAA's vice president of basketball operations, told CBS that the committee had almost completed selecting its at-large teams by Saturday afternoon. Texas turned in its resume with the loss to Tennessee in the Southeastern Conference tournament quarterfinals,