With each upset in a power conference tournament, Indiana State basketball gets more nervous.

Craziness in the American and Atlantic 10 tournaments. Texas A&M beating Kentucky in the SEC tournament. Providence beating Creighton in the Big East tournament. N.C. State winning five days in a row to take the ACC tournament championship.

All of those results threaten to pop the Sycamores' NCAA tournament bubble. Therefore, ISU enters Selection Sunday in a precarious position, awaiting the committee's decision.

ISU (27-6) hopes to make the 68-team field as an at-large team, a rarity for the Missouri Valley Conference. The Sycamores lost the MVC tournament championship game to Drake. Indiana State last made March Madness in 2011 as a No. 14 seed.

CBS' Seth Davis asked committee chair Dan Gavitt about teams such as Indiana State (actually, Davis acknowledged he was asking about ISU) on Saturday.

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Gavitt didn't offer much insight, as you might expect, but he acknowledged metrics such as the NET rankings play a significant role, as does the eye test.

Indiana State has a NET ranking of 29th on Sunday, up one place from the previous day. The highest-ranked team in the NET to be left out of the tournament was No. 33 N.C. State in 2019.

Why Indiana State should make the NCAA Tournament

∎ 27 wins, more than all but 11 teams.

∎ The Sycamores didn't just stack up home wins: 9-4 on the road, 6-1 on neutral courts.

Why Indiana State won't make the NCAA Tournament

∎ Strength of schedule: 101st of 362 teams nationally, according to teamrankings.com. They played two games against power conference teams, losing to Alabama and Michigan State.

∎ A quad-4 loss at home, 80-67 to Illinois State.

Indiana State bracket projections

Here's where various bracketologists have the Sycamores as of Sunday morning.

Joe Lunardi, ESPN: First four out

Jerry Palm, CBS: First four out

Patrick Stevens, Washington Post: Moving out

Mike DeCourcy, Fox Sports: First four out

USA TODAY: First four out

Kevin Sweeney, Sports Illustrated: Next four out

I’ll be surprised, though not shocked, if the Sycamores get in.

This article originally appeared on Indianapolis Star: Indiana State March Madness bracket predictions for NCAA tournament