This year, before you fill out your brackets and enter your office pools, make sure you’re prepared. This Sunday – Selection Sunday for the NCAA’s 65 teams – Hoops Addict editor Ryan McNeill will be joined by Hoops Addict college basketball writer Aaron Torres for a live chat leading up to and during the announcement of the field at 6 p.m. EST.

Are you looking for a March Madness pool to join? Check out the Hoops Addict pool over at Yahoo! Sports.

It’s hard to believe, but we are officially less than a week away from knowing which 65 teams will compose this year’s NCAA Tournament field. Where does the time go?

Over the weekend both No. 1 Kentucky and No. 2 Kansas lost, and No. 4 Purdue was crippled by a devastating, season altering injury. Yet despite all that, one team remained impressive and then some, and for the first time this season, they headline our Power Rankings.

After a relatively quiet week in college basketball, things will certainly heat up this week. Amongst the must see games are Kentucky-Tennessee, Missouri-Kansas State, BYU-New Mexico and Michigan State-Purdue. Not to mention Saturday’s showdown in the Big East, between No. 7 Villanova and No. 4 Syracuse.

It may have taken six days, but “Rivalry Week,” finally lived up to the hype, as both Syracuse and Georgetown were upset on a shocking Sunday afternoon.

Just a day after the NFL season ended, college hoops is set to roll out its most exciting week of action yet. If this week doesn’t get you into college basketball season, I’m not sure anything will.

While we say goodbye to some familiar faces (it was fun knowing you UConn and North Carolina), it’s time to say hello to a few more. Which is exactly what we do in this week’s Power Rankings, as we welcome not only a new No. 1 ranked team, but also two new teams that have come to command our respect.

Despite a lot of college basketball action over the last seven days, it was a surprisingly quiet week overall. While No. 1 Texas did lose twice, everyone else at the top- Kentucky, Villanova, Kansas, Syracuse- held strong, and improved their tournament resumes as we head toward March.

Conference play is under way, and college basketball is heating up. And there’s a new No. 1 team in the Power Rankings, after four unbeaten teams last week were trimmed to just a remaining two today.