While there aren’t any Massachusetts college teams dancing this year, there are plenty of players hailing from Massachusetts and around the region to keep an eye on as March rolls on. Here are the players with roots in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine that are playing the NCAA Division 1 men’s basketball tournament.

No. 3 seed Texas Tech rises to challenge against No. 14 North Carolina-Wilmington, advances to second round of NCAA men's basketball tournament.

In its first-round win over UNC Wilmington, Texas Tech set a new NCAA men’s basketball tournament record, even if it did not go as smoothly as planned. Though the Red Raiders ended up winning by 10, the game was much closer throughout than the final score suggests.