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

32 berths are up for grabs for conference tournament winners.
Every Team That Has Received an Automatic Bid to the Men’s NCAA Basketball Tournament
Every Team That Has Received an Automatic Bid to the Men’s NCAA Basketball Tournament /

It’s the most wonderful time of the year: March Madness is finally here.

Conference tournament season is in full swing, and the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments are close at hand. 32 automatic bids are up for grabs in the men’s tournament this year, with 36 at-large bids left to be distributed among teams that didn’t win their conference tournaments.

On the men’s side, conference tournament season began in earnest with the Atlantic Sun tournament tipping off on Feb. 27, and will conclude with the Big Ten tournament title game on March 12.

Here’s a look at every team that has earned a coveted automatic bid to the tournament thus far:

Ohio Valley: Southeast Missouri State (16–17)

Big South: UNC Asheville (27–7)

Missouri Valley: Drake (27–7)

Atlantic Sun: Kennesaw State (26–8)

Southern: Furman (27–7)

Sun Belt: Louisiana (26–7)

Colonial: Charleston (31–3)

Horizon: Northern Kentucky (22–12)

Northeast: Fairleigh Dickinson (19–15)

Summit: Oral Roberts (30–4)

West Coast: Gonzaga (28–5)

Southland: Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (23–10)

Patriot: Colgate (26–8)

Big Sky: Montana State (25–9) 

America East: Vermont (23–10)

MEAC: Howard (22–12)

SWAC: Texas Southern (14–20)

Big 12: Texas (26–8)

Mountain West: San Diego State (27-6)

Big East: Marquette (28-6)

MAC: Kent State (28-6)

MAAC: Iona (27-7)

ACC: Duke (26-8) 

Conference USA: Florida Atlantic (31-3)

Big West: UC Santa Barbara (27-7)

Pac-12: Arizona (28-6)

WAC: Grand Canyon (24-11)

Ivy League: Princeton (21-8)

Atlantic 10: Virginia Commonwealth (27-7)

SEC: Alabama (29-5)

AAC: Memphis (26-8)

Big Ten: Purdue (29-5)


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Patrick Andres
PATRICK ANDRES

Patrick Andres is a staff writer on the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. He joined SI in December 2022, having worked for The Blade, Athlon Sports, Fear the Sword and Diamond Digest. Andres has covered everything from zero-attendance Big Ten basketball to a seven-overtime college football game. He is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism with a double major in history .