As the 2026 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament approaches, four teams seem to have separated themselves from the rest of college basketball: Duke, Michigan, Arizona and Florida. All of them are projected to earn No. 1 seeds in FOX Sports' Mike DeCourcy's latest projections. Their collective dominance has been so thorough and so complete that analysts around the sport are beginning to wonder if well see the four top seeds reach the Final Four again, just as we did last season. Between now and then, however, college basketballs leading quartet will navigate four separate conference tournaments this week. Predictably, theyre overwhelming favorites to win their respective leagues, even with injuries to multiple Duke starters. Here are my picks for conference tournament winners from the sports top five leagues: Big East Winner:St. Johns There were plenty of reasons to be concerned with how the Red Storm might or might not bounce back from a shocking 72-40 road loss at No. 6 UConn on Feb. 25, which momentarily cast some doubt over who would win the Big East regular season title. But head coach Rick Pitino deserves immense credit for the way his team responded down the stretch, winning three consecutive games over Villanova, Georgetown and Seton Hall to win the league outright for a second consecutive year. A moment that could have legitimately derailed the Red Storms upward trajectory now seems like nothing more than a blip amid this stretch of 16 wins in 17 games entering the conference tournament. The Big East Tournament is played at Madison Square Garden, which has become something of a fortress during Pitinos tenure thanks to ever-increasing fan interest. The potential semifinal matchup with fourth-seeded Seton Hall is a rematch of a game St. Johns won just last week. Even the possibility of a high-profile rubber match with second-seeded UConn in the championship game shouldnt be nearly as intimidating given the home-court advantage. When the Red Storm and Huskies played at the Garden in early February, the crowd resembled a 90-10 split in favor of St. Johns. Thats why Pitinos team should expect to cut down the nets again this weekend. Big Ten Winner:Michigan At this point, who is picking against the Wolverines in any capacity, let alone the conference tournament for a league they just won by four full games? The combination of a relatively soft non-conference schedule and an easy opening salvo in Big Ten play meant that Michigan was largely untested through mid-February, when head coach Dusty May and Co. embarked on a brutal finishing kick. By then, the analytics and predictive metrics for Mays team were already extraordinary,but a string of wins over then-No. 7 Purdue (away), then No. 10 Illinois (away), Iowa (away) and then-No. 8 Michigan State (home) cemented just how special these Wolverines really are. An interesting twist to this years Big Ten Tournament bracket includes a potential semifinal matchup with fifth-seeded Wisconsin, the only conference foe to beat Michigan this year. That would require the Badgers to win their opening game and then upset fourth-seeded Illinois in the quarterfinals. Theres also the possibility of a championship matchup with third-seeded Michigan State, the Wolverines archrival, which would present an opportunity for May to earn a third consecutive victory over the Spartans something that hasnt happened since the 2017-18 campaign. If Michigan can cut down the nets in Chicago this weekend, the selection committee will have to think long and hard about giving Mays team the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament. Big 12 Winner:Arizona Whichever team emerges from this slobber knocker of a tournament should feel thoroughly accomplished, regardless of what happens in the NCAA Tournament. The Big 12 field includes five teams ranked among the top 16 in the latest AP Poll in No. 2 Arizona, No. 5 Houston, No. 7 Iowa State, No. 14 Kansas and No. 16 Texas Tech, plus two more that checked in at Nos. 27 and 28, respectively, in TCU and BYU. Thats as loaded of a conference tournament field as youll find in college basketball, especially considering how many future lottery picks will be involved: from AJ Dybantsa (BYU) and Darryn Peterson (Kansas), to Kingston Flemings (Houston), Brayden Burries (Arizona), Koa Peat (Arizona) and, potentially, Christian Anderson Jr. (Texas Tech). NBA scouts will be drooling. Such incredible depth across the Big 12 resulted in a bit of cannibalism during the latter stages of the regular season. Houston dropped three straight games in late February before rebounding with three consecutive wins. Iowa State will enter the conference tournament having lost three of its last five. Kansas hasnt won back-to-back games in more than a month. Texas Tech seemed no worse for wear following the torn ACL suffered by consensus second-team All-American JT Toppin before losing to TCU and BYU last week. The only team still relatively unscathed is Arizona, which lost back-to-back games against then-No. 9 Kansas (away) and then-No. 16 Texas Tech (home) in mid-February before reeling off six straight wins to claim the tournaments top seed. Theres no reason to think the Wildcats will stumble this week. ACC Winner:Virginia Injuries to key players will be among the prevailing storylines this week, dampening what could have been a much more exciting ACC Tournament. North Carolina announced that star freshman Caleb Wilson (19.8 points, 9.4 rebounds per game) is going to miss the remainder of the season after breaking his right thumb while dunking during practice. Wilson, who is now expected to declare for the NBA Draft, had already missed the prior six games due to an injury on his opposite hand. Without him, the Tar Heels ceiling is significantly lower for both the conference tournament and the NCAA Tournament. Duke remains the odd-son favorite to cut down the nets this week, but the Blue Devils are not without a significant injury of their own. Head coach Jon Scheyer announced that starting point guard Caleb Foster (8.5 points, 3.6 assists) suffered a broken foot against North Carolina over the weekend and underwent surgery Sunday morning. Foster is now sidelined indefinitely without a clear timetable for his return. The Blue Devils are also missing starting center Patrick Ngongba II (10.7 points, 6 rebounds) due to a foot injury, with Scheyer deciding to rest him ahead of the NCAA Tournament. With two of the ACCs top four seeds hamstrung by injuries, theres an opportunity for second-seeded Virginia to make a run toward the tournament title. The Cavaliers only two losses since Dec. 31 came against North Carolina and Duke when all of the aforementioned players were healthy. SEC Winner:Florida Is there any team in the country hotter than Florida right now? Following a 76-67 loss to unranked Auburn on Jan. 24, the Gators sunk to 14-6 overall and 5-2 in the SEC a far cry from last years national championship-winning squad that only suffered four defeats all season. Since then, head coach Todd Golden and his team have strung together 11 consecutive wins in spectacular fashion. Theyve scored at least 84 points 10 times during that span, including three games with 100 points or more. All but one of those wins came by double-digit margins. From Jan. 28 through the present, Florida ranks fifth nationally in offensive efficiency and third nationally in defensive efficiency, unquestionably a national title contender once again. The SEC Tournament bracket sets up for a potential semifinal matchup with fourth-seeded Vanderbilt, a team that only lost to Florida by four during the lone regular season tilt in mid-January. The Commodores, who rank 15th nationally in offensive efficiency, have enough firepower to keep pace with the Gators but may not be able to stop them on the other end. From there, Golden and Co. might see either second-seeded Alabama or third-seeded Arkansas in the title game. Those teams both lost to Florida during the regular season by a stunning combined margin of 57 points. Thats why its best to back the Gators this week.

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Stephen Curry will be sidelined for at least another 10 days as the Golden State Warriors star tries to work his way back from a troublesome right knee injury.The team said Wednesday that Curry who will turn 38 on Saturday and has missed 15 consecutive games was re-evaluated for his patellofemoral pain syndrome and has continued to make good progress. He has returned to individual on-court workouts that will be intensified as Curry is able to do more. He is scheduled to be examined again in 10 days, then there is typically a specific ramp-up process for an injured player in a practice setting with various full-speed scrimmages before he is medically cleared to play games again.That would mean Curry misses at least the next six games, including a road game at Atlanta on March 21, leaving 11 left in the regular season after that. Golden State had initially hoped he would return right after the All-Star break, and Curry sat out the All-Star game this year.Curry, leading the Warriors in scoring at 27.2 points per game, last played Jan. 30 against Detroit and the Warriors have struggled without him. They are are 9-17 without him in the lineup overall this season and 5-10 during his recent stretch being sidelined.The Warriors lost their third straight game, third in a row at home and fifth of six overall in a 130-124 overtime defeat to the Chicago Bulls on Tuesday night.___AP NBA: https://apnews.com/NBA

Stephen Curry will be sidelined for at least another 10 days as the Golden State Warriors star tries to work his way back from a troublesome right knee injury.The team said Wednesday that Curry who will turn 38 on Saturday and has missed 15 consecutive games was re-evaluated for his patellofemoral pain syndrome and has continued to make good progress. He has returned to individual on-court workouts that will be intensified as Curry is able to do more. He is scheduled to be examined again in 10 days, then there is typically a specific ramp-up process for an injured player in a practice setting with various full-speed scrimmages before he is medically cleared to play games again.That would mean Curry misses at least the next six games, including a road game at Atlanta on March 21, leaving 11 left in the regular season after that. Golden State had initially hoped he would return right after the All-Star break, and Curry sat out the All-Star game this year.Curry, leading the Warriors in scoring at 27.2 points per game, last played Jan. 30 against Detroit and the Warriors have struggled without him. They are are 9-17 without him in the lineup overall this season and 5-10 during his recent stretch being sidelined.The Warriors lost their third straight game, third in a row at home and fifth of six overall in a 130-124 overtime defeat to the Chicago Bulls on Tuesday night.___AP NBA: https://apnews.com/NBA

Chelsea's Champions League aspirations suffered a devastating blow as goalkeeper Filip Jorgensen's calamitous mistake triggered a late implosion in Paris, with the Blues ultimately falling 5-2 to the reigning European champions.The west London side had battled admirably to level the contest at 2-2, but Jorgensen's wayward pass found Bradley Barcola directly, allowing Vitinha to chip the stranded keeper and restore PSG's advantage.Georgian substitute Khvicha Kvaratskhelia then delivered the knockout blows, first bending a magnificent effort into the net from distance before adding a fifth with a composed finish in the dying moments.Enzo Maresca's men now face an enormous task at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday.The French side seized the initiative early, with Barcola firing home inside ten minutes after Ousmane Dembele's delivery was headed into his path.His powerful strike pierced through a cluster of Chelsea defenders and nestled inside the near post.Jorgensen kept his side in the contest by pushing Dembele's fierce shot onto the woodwork, before Malo Gusto drew Chelsea level.The full-back finished coolly past the unconvincing Matvei Safonov following a precise pass from Enzo Fernandez.Yet the parity lasted mere seconds. Cole Palmer's effort was saved by Safonov, and just fourteen seconds later Dembele had restored PSG's lead, outpacing Wesley Fofana before slotting home with composure.Desire Doue's creativity had fashioned Dembele's goal, the midfielder evading challenges from Moises Caicedo and Trevoh Chalobah before threading the ball through to the Ballon d'Or holder.However, the young Frenchman proved costly for his own side after the interval.Doue misjudged the flight of the ball and was dispossessed by Neto, whose low delivery was guided home by the arriving Fernandez to make it 2-2.Luis Enrique responded swiftly, withdrawing Doue within five minutes and introducing Kvaratskhelia.The decisive moment arrived when Jorgensen's errant pass went straight to Barcola, presenting Vitinha with the opportunity to loft the ball over the out-of-position goalkeeper.What followed was a moment of sheer brilliance from the Georgian attacker, who curled an unstoppable strike from the edge of the area that left Jorgensen with no chance.Kvaratskhelia was not finished, adding a fifth goal with a neat side-footed effort in what proved to be virtually the final action of the evening.Chelsea had matched their illustrious opponents for creativity and tactical boldness throughout much of the encounter, performing admirably for seventy-five minutes.Yet they were ultimately overwhelmed by what many consider Europe's most potent attacking force.Khvicha Kvaratskhelia scores again in stoppage time to make it 5-2 Chelsea have a mountain to climb in the second leg...@tntsports & @discoveryplusUK pic.twitter.com/HAHVgoUIRi Football on TNT Sports (@footballontnt) March 11, 2026 The Blues must now overcome a three-goal deficit when PSG visit Stamford Bridge on Tuesday night.Our Standards: The GB News Editorial Charter