With Selection Sunday within striking distance, all that’s left to do is wait for the committee to announce the bracket at 5 p.m. today.

With Missouri’s Big 12 tournament victory over Baylor, it appears six conference teams will make the NCAA Tournament. For what it’s worth, here’s bracketologist Joe Lunardi’s predictions for conference teams as of 1:53 a.m. Sunday morning:

• Kansas: 2 (Kansas City – East region)
• Oklahoma: 3 (Minneapolis – South)
• Missouri: 3 (Boise – West)
• Texas: 7 (Kansas City – West)
• Oklahoma State: 8 (Greensboro – East)
• Texas A&M: 9 (Philadelphia – West)

This will likely change before 5 p.m.

UPDATE: Lunardi’s updated projections. Almost all Big 12 teams are on the move from the bracketologist’s above predictions:

• Oklahoma: 2 (Kansas City – Midwest region)
• Kansas: 3 (Minneapolis – West)
• Missouri: 3 (Boise – East)
• Texas: 8 (Greensboro – South)
• Oklahoma State: 9 (Kansas City – West)
• Texas A&M: 10 (Minneapolis – South)

Here’s a few things we learned after the completion of the Big 12 tournament:

1. Missouri’s depth paid off.

Missouri coach Mike Anderson played 11 guys in Saturday’s championship game. He’s constantly rotating fresh players off the bench to pester the opposition the full length of the court. It showed Saturday, when Baylor looked tired from the four games it played in four days. BU coach Scott Drew acknowledged the fatigue factor:

“We don’t mind playing fast, but our advantage was inside and I don’t know if we had enough in the tank to do that nonstop,” Drew said.

Missouri doesn’t have a player that ranks in the top 10 in minutes played in the conference. The way Anderson likely sees it: If you’re not guarding, there’s another guy sitting on the bench waiting to guard.

The Tigers have a turnover margin of +6.7 on the season, far and away the best in the nation among the six power conferences. It’s no secret Missouri wins with creating turnovers.

They weren’t my pick to win this week, but the Tigers deserved it.

2. Kansas wasn’t alone as a No. 1 seed exiting early in its conference tournament.

Of the six power conferences, five of them saw their No. 1 seeds get upset. Those top seeds: Kansas, North Carolina, Michigan State, Washington and LSU.

The SEC technically has two No. 1 seeds in its conference tournament (one from the east and one from the west), but LSU won the SEC regular season by three games with a 13-3 conference mark. The Tigers were clearly the No. 1 SEC team this season.

So what does this say? It tells me that filling out my bracket this year is going to be tougher than giving my New York relatives compliments on their highway driving.

Really, there’s no overwhelming favorite this year. One second, I think Pittsburgh, the next second I’m sold on Louisville, then I’m tempted to drink the UNC cool-aid. Kansas, Oklahoma or Missouri…who knows?

3. Breakthrough players

A few players had strong tournaments and could be forces in the conference next year with continued development:

Mike Singletary, Texas Tech sophomore: Something tells me teams will pay more attention to the 6-foot-6, 230-pounder next season after he set a Big 12 tournament record with 43 points against Texas A&M on Wednesday.

Marshall Moses, Oklahoma State sophomore: Moses, who averaged only 6.6 points and 5.9 boards per game in the regular season, stepped up his play with 18 and six against Iowa State, and 16 and 12 against Missouri. He had an emotional letdown against Oklahoma with a technical foul for arguing with the refs and a separate flagrant foul when he took down Blake Griffin, but he’ll learn to control his emotions as an upperclassman.

Dexter Pittman, Texas junior: OK, we knew he was one of UT’s main rotation guys, but we didn’t know he could be dominant. The big fella averaged 17 points and 11 boards in UT’s three tournament games. As a senior, he’ll have a lot more attention on him, particularly with A.J. Abrams graduating.

Certainly a fun tournament to follow. Thanks to all who kept up and offered their comments on the blog.

Time for me to get some shut-eye. As always, discuss.