The countdown to March Madness is on. The beloved annual tradition that is the NCAA Tournament will begin in just a few weeks.

Teams with Lock status have at least a 95% chance to make the tournament, according to the BPI forecast. (Yes, this means that 5% of the time, a team marked as a lock will miss the tourney. We set the threshold there as a nod to the traditional standard for significance testing.)

Here's when the men's and women's basketball March Madness NCAA tournaments will be held and the outlook of Iowa schools making the cut.

Iowa women's basketball has turned a corner lately competing with the best in the country. Their play has them climbing NCAA Tournament seeds.