11 Automatic Bids Taken to Big Dance, 2 More Today
Of the 68 teams in the NCAA Tournament – remember, it’s 68 this year, not 65 – 31 get automatic bids for winning their conference. Thirty of those are via conference tournaments while one, the Ivy League, goes to the regular-season champion. The Ivy is the only conference that doesn’t have a conference tournament. Harvard and Princeton will face off in a one-game playoff this weekend for that berth.
Tonight two more conference tournament champions will be crowned. In the Big Sky title game, Montana faces Northern Colorado and in the Northeast Tournament Robert Morris faces Long Island.
LIU is a sizable favorite in the Northeast as the Blackbirds (26-5, 16-2) won the regular season title by three games and beat Robert Morris (18-13, 12-6) 83-67 earlier this season. In the Big Sky, Northern Colorado (20-10, 13-3) won the regular-season title by a game over Montana (21-9, 12-4) but the teams split two meetings during the season.
Here are the bids that have been claimed so far:
School Record Last NCAA Conference
Arkansas-Little Rock 19-16 1990 Sun Belt
Belmont 30-4 2008 Atlantic Sun
Butler 23-9 2010 Horizon
Gonzaga 24-9 2010 West Coast
Indiana State 20-13 2001 Missouri Valley
Morehead State 24-9 2009 Ohio Valley
Oakland 25-9 2010 Summit
Old Dominion 27-6 2010 Colonial
St. Peter’s 20-13 1995 Metro Atlantic Athletic
UNC Asheville 19-13 2003 Big South
Wofford 21-12 2010 Southern
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