Kentucky, Auburn, Duke, Purdue and Villanova are additionally in contention for No. 2 seeds.
Gonzaga, the West Coast Conference champion and the favorite to win the title, could be assigned the top seed in the West region, which finishes in San Francisco. A West Coast team has not won the N.C.A.A. men’s championship since Arizona in 1997, and this year Gonzaga has a legitimate shot along with Arizona, which beat U.C.L.A. in the Pac-12 championship game, 84-76, on Saturday night.
Villanova, which won the N.C.A.A. championship in 2016 and 2018 under Coach Jay Wright, is hoping to be assigned to the East region, which has its regional at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, where Villanova went 3-0 this season.
Some teams saw their seeding position jeopardized with losses at critical times.
When Providence was blown out by Creighton in the Big East tournament semifinals on Friday night, it put their status as a potential No. 4 seed in some doubt.
“That’s something I can’t control,” Friars coach Ed Cooley said. “I don’t want our seeding to be impacted on one game, you know what I mean? I don’t know what the committee thinks. That’s not my job. I try not to worry about stuff I can’t control.”
Who else should be sweating it out?
Teams like Xavier, Wyoming, Michigan, Southern Methodist, Dayton, Virginia Tech and Texas A&M entered Saturday on the bubble. Virginia Tech — which beat Duke, 82-67, on Saturday night — earned an automatic bid. S.M.U. lost in an American Athletic tournament semifinal to Memphis. Texas A&M, which won three straight games in the Southeastern Conference tournament and will face Tennessee in Sunday’s championship game, can join Virginia Tech in jumping from the bubble to the 68-team bracket with a victory.