Thirty-two automatic bids are awarded for the NCAA men’s basketball tournament each year, and there are 19 remaining bids to be given out on conference championship week. A total of 13 teams have punched their tickets to the Big Dance.
On Wednesday, Boston beat Colgate 64-61 in the Patriot League championship game.
Sporting News will track all of the automatic bids to March Madness below as the bracket starts to fill out. The rest of the automatic bids will be decided this weekend.
Here’s a look at the full conference tournament schedule (in alphabetical order). The list below will be updated as teams punch their tickets to March Madness.
MORE: SN’s latest March Madness Field of 68 bracket projections
March Madness bracket 2020: Tracking automatic bids
After Selection Sunday, the First Four games will tip March Madness off in Dayton, Ohio, on March 17 and March 18. The real first round begins after that, on March 19 and 20. The second round follows on March 21 and 22.
Until the final bracket is released, SN will make educated predictions in its “Field of 68” projections.
