Illinois basketball is coming off its toughest stretch of the season, so where do they sit for March Madness? Here's the Feb. 24 update.

The T-Rank function on BartTorvik.com will be used for the first time this season on the team sheets examined by NCAA Tournament committee. Bart Torvik is a Madison native and lawyer who created the metric for ranking teams, which emphasizes recent results and takes out “garbage time” stats from late in blowout games. MU is No. 32 in T-Rank.