It’s here!
Well, almost here. This is published Saturday night and Selection Sunday is tomorrow. Before the selection show, we have some games to play as well. The Championship games will be played in the Ivy League, the SEC, the Atlantic 10, the American, and the Big 10.
There are 32 conferences in Division 1 which receive an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament, so with five still to play that means 27 have received their bids. Here are the conferences and their winners:
- Northeast — Fairleigh Dickinson
- SWAC — Texas Southern
- Southland — Texas A&M Corpus Christi
- Ohio Valley — Southeast Missouri State
- MEAC — Howard
- Patriot — Colgate
- Colonial — Charleston
- America East — Vermont
- Summit — Oral Roberts
- MAAC — Iona
- Big South — UNC Asheville
- Horizon — Northern Kentucky
- Southern — Furman
- MAC — Kent State
- Atlantic Sun — Kennesaw State
- Big Sky — Montana State
- Missouri Valley — Drake
- Big West — UC-Santa Barbera/Cal St Fullerton
- Sun Belt — Louisiana
- WAC — Grand Canyon/Southern Utah
- CUSA — FAU
- WCC — Gonzaga
- ACC — Duke
- MWC — San Diego State
- Pac-12 — UCLA/Arizona
- Big East — Marquette
- Big 12 — Texas
Selection Sunday is a day of joy for a lot of teams, and misery for others.