Still, Indiana was only on three brackets entering that game, so it's hard to overstate the importance of that win for Indiana's NCAA Tournament chances. It brought Indiana up three spots in the NET Rankings, seven spots up in Kenpom's national rankings, and seven spots up in Bart Torvik's T-Rank.

Among the more famous bracketologists, Jerry Palm of CBS Sports had Indiana in the field in his update on Monday. He had Indiana as a No. 11 seed playing in a NCAA Tournament play-in game at Dayton, Ohio against Wake Forest. The winner would then move on to play No. 6 seed Memphis in Providence, R.I. in the South Regional.