{"id":230424,"date":"2026-02-26T05:26:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T05:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/five-under-the-radar-teams-that-could-bust-your-march-madness-bracket\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T05:26:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T05:26:34","slug":"five-under-the-radar-teams-that-could-bust-your-march-madness-bracket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/five-under-the-radar-teams-that-could-bust-your-march-madness-bracket\/","title":{"rendered":"Five under-the-radar teams that could bust your March Madness bracket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>With March arriving on Sunday, the madness will soon ensue as the 2026 NCAA Tournament in men&#8217;s college basketball is almost here. Selection Sunday is on March 15, which means fans are gearing up to fill out their brackets.<\/p>\n<p>Heavyweight programs that are expected to garner No. 1 or No. 2 seeds in the Big Dance will receive a lot of attention when it comes to picking the favorites to reach this season&#8217;s Final Four.<\/p>\n<p>However, sleeper teams are out there, too, that can make serious noise into late March or even early April. These are either power-conference or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/college_basketball\/articles\/five_mid_major_programs_poised_to_make_serious_march_madness_noise\/s1_13132_43465943\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mid-major programs<\/a> that are flying a tad under the radar as lower seeds, but could be great bracket-busting selections for the field of 68.<\/p>\n<h2>Five teams to keep an eye on in March Madness<\/h2>\n<h3><strong>Auburn (15-13 overall, 6-9 in SEC)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/college_basketball\/articles\/five_under_the_radar_teams_that_could_bust_your_march_madness_bracket\/s1_13132_43516296\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With March arriving on Sunday, the madness will soon ensue as the 2026 NCAA Tournament in men&#8217;s college basketball is almost here. Selection Sunday is on March 15, which means fans are gearing up to fill out their brackets. Heavyweight programs that are expected to garner No. 1 or No. 2 seeds in the Big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-230424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}