Every Team That Has Received an Automatic Bid to the Women’s NCAA Basketball Tournament

The most wonderful time of the year is finally here.
Every Team That Has Received an Automatic Bid to the Women’s NCAA Basketball Tournament
Every Team That Has Received an Automatic Bid to the Women’s NCAA Basketball Tournament /

March Madness is finally here.

After waiting for almost another full year, it’s conference tournament season and the NCAA women’s basketball tournament is just around the corner. 32 teams will be awarded automatic bids for winning their respective conference tournaments, while the other 36 competitors will have to wait for Selection Sunday to find out their postseason fate.

On the women’s side, conference tournament play began in the Sun Belt and the Horizon League on Feb. 28. The Big 12, Colonial and Missouri Valley conferences will wrap up the two-week sprint on March 12 ahead of the women’s selection show that same day

Here’s a look at every women’s team that has earned an automatic bid to the tournament thus far. All listed times are ET:

Ohio Valley: Tennessee Tech (22–9)

Atlantic 10: Saint Louis (17–17)

Southern: Chattanooga (20–12)

ACC: Virginia Tech (27–4)

SEC: South Carolina (32–0)

Pac-12: Washington State (23–10)

Big Ten: Iowa (26–6)

Big South: Gardner-Webb (29–4)

Sun Belt: James Madison (26–7)

Big East: UConn (29–5)

Horizon: Cleveland State (30–4)

Summit: South Dakota State (28–5)

West Coast: Portland (23–8)

Big Sky: Sacramento State (25–7)

Mountain West: UNLV (31–2)

Southland: Southeast Louisiana (22–9)

AAC: East Carolina (23–9)

America East: Vermont (25–6)

MAC: Toledo (28–4)

SWAC: Southern (18–14)

MAAC: Iona (26–6)

MEAC: Norfolk State (26–6)

Ivy League: Princeton (23–5)

Conference USA: Middle Tennessee (28–4)

Big West: Hawaii (18–15)

WAC: Southern Utah (23–9)

Atlantic Sun: Florida Gulf Coast (32–3)

Northeast: Sacred Heart (18-13)

Patriot: Holy Cross (24-8)

Missouri Valley: Drake (22-9)

Colonial: Monmouth (18-15)

Big 12: Iowa State (22-9)


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ZACH KOONS

Zach Koons is a programming editor at Sports Illustrated who frequently writes about Formula One. He joined SI as a breaking/trending news writer in February 2022 before joining the programming team in 2023. Koons previously worked at The Spun and interned for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He currently hosts the "Bleav in Northwestern" podcast and received a bachelor's in journalism from Northwestern University.