2022 March Madness: Women’s Conference Tournament Automatic Bid Tracker
The road to the 2022 NCAA Women’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 1 and 3 at the Target City in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Stanford Cardinal are the defending champions.
Conference tournaments began on March 1 and will continue through March 13. The Big 12 Tournament is March 10-13 in Kansas City.
On Sunday the last automatic bids were decided. The teams that won berths included Texas from the Big 12, Mount St. Mary's from the Northeast Conference, Delaware from the Colonial Athletic, Incarnate Word of the Southland, Illinois State of the Missouri Valley and American University from the Patriot League.
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 Women’s Tournament Automatic Bids
Ohio Valley – Belmont
ACC – NC State
Atlantic 10 – UMass
Big Ten – Iowa
Big South – Longwood
Pac-12 – Stanford
SEC – Kentucky
Southern – Mercer
Big East – UConn
Sun Belt – UT-Arlington
Horizon League – IUPUI
Summit – South Dakota
West Coast – Gonzaga
Mountain West – UNLV
American Athletic – UCF
America East – Albany
Big Sky – Montana State
Atlantic Sun – Florida Gulf Coast
Big West – Hawaii
Conference USA – Charlotte
Ivy League – Princeton
MAAC – Fairfield
Mid-American – Buffalo
MEAC – Howard
SWAC – Jackson State
WAC – Stephen F. Austin
Big 12 – Texas
Colonial – Delaware
Missouri Valley – Illinois State
Northeast – Mount St. Mary's
Patriot League – American University
Southland – Incarnate Word
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