Texas basketball should at least be a top 4 seed in Bracketology

There are very few teams around the country that have as difficult of a schedule to round out their regular season as what first-year head coach Chris Beard and No. 20 ranked Texas basketball is facing in the week ahead. Texas gets arguably the two top teams in the Big 12 to round out their regular season schedule in the upcoming week.

First up is a meeting with head coach Scott Drew and the No. 10 ranked Baylor Bears. Drew and the Bears are fresh off an impressive double-digit win at home at the Ferrell Center on Feb. 26 over the No. 7 ranked Kansas Jayhawks.

At least Texas gets to host Baylor at home at the Frank Erwin Center in what will be the final game ever at the Drum this week. Texas is specifically set to face Baylor at home at the final game at the Erwin Center on Feb. 28.

Chris Beard and No. 20 Texas basketball likely deserving of better than a five-seed on Selection Sunday

Texas will then round out their regular season schedule on March 5 on the road at Allen Fieldhouse on March 5 against head coach Bill Self and the Jayhawks. Kansas is going to be looking for revenge after Texas upset them at the Erwin Center earlier this month.

Moreover, Texas does have some momentum on their side heading into the final couple of games on their regular season slate. Texas is coming off a hard-fought one-point win over head coach Bob Huggins and the West Virginia Mountaineers on the road in Morgantown on the afternoon of Feb. 26.

Beard and the Longhorns are now sitting on a record of 21-8 (10-6 Big 12) following their Feb. 26 win over West Virginia. It will be interesting to see where Texas falls in the major polls this week.

Texas was still behind the eight ball a good bit in terms of their positioning in the latest round of NCAA Tournament seeding projections from ESPN’s Joe Lunardi. While that round of Bracketology took place before a wild weekend in college hoops, it still had Texas in a five-seed.

If Beard and the Longhorns can end the regular season on a high note with at least one win in their final two games, that should at least slide them up to a four-seed. In this week’s version of the Top 25 and 1 from CBS Sports, Texas rang in at No. 16. That theoretically gets Texas the final four-seed if you rank them out for the NCAA Tournament.

Granted, that’s now how that always works out in the end.

At the moment, it does look like Texas would be deserving of a top-four seed in the NCAA Tournament if the season did end today. But there’s still a lot of action left to play out for Beard and the Longhorns before Selection Sunday. Texas is still set to face Baylor and Kansas once, depending on how the Big 12 Tournament plays out.

Texas could technically enter the Big 12 Tournament as high as a two-seed. But that would have to feature Baylor and the Texas Tech Red Raiders losing essentially every single one of their remaining games. The more likely scenario is that Texas enters the Big 12 Tournament as a four-seed.