2022 March Madness: Men’s Conference Tournament Automatic Bid Tracker
The road to the 2022 NCAA Men’s Final Four gets underway with conference tournaments all over the country, which will help determine the Field of 68.
The winners of each of those tournaments will receive an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. The NCAA Tournament Committee determines the rest of the field through a selection process. The entire field is revealed on March 13.
The Final Four will be played on April 2 and 4 at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Baylor Bears are the defending champions.
Conference tournament began on Feb. 28 and will continue through March 13. The Big 12 Tournament is March 9-12 in Kansas City.
On Sunday, the final automatic bids were handed out. Teams that clinched bids included Yale in the Ivy League, Tennessee in the SEC, Iowa in the Big Ten, Houston in the American Athletic and Richmond in the Atlantic-10.
We will track the automatic bids for each conference leading up to Selection Sunday.
Below is the tracker, which includes the conference, the day of its championship game and, once it is determined, its champion. The list below is in order by the date the automatic bid is decided.
2022 NCAA Men’s Tournament Automatic Bids
Ohio Valley – Murray State
Big South – Longwood
Missouri Valley – Loyola Chicago
Southern – Chattanooga
Sun Belt – Georgia State
Atlantic Sun – Jacksonville State
Horizon League – Wright State
Colonial – Delaware
Northeast – Bryant
Summit – South Dakota State
West Coast – Gonzaga
Patriot League – Colgate
America East – Vermont
ACC – Virginia Tech
Big East – Villanova
Big Sky – Montana State
Big 12 – Kansas
Big West – Cal State-Fullerton
Conference USA – UAB
MAAC – Saint Peter's
Mid-American – Akron
MEAC – Norfolk State
Mountain West – Boise State
Pac-12 – Arizona
Southland – Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
SWAC – Texas Southern
WAC – New Mexico State
American Athletic – Houston
Atlantic 10 – Richmond
Big Ten – Iowa
Ivy League – Yale
SEC – Tennessee
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