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A conference tournament in college basketball is a tournament held at the end of the regular season to determine a conference tournament champion. It is usually held in four rounds, but can vary, depending on the conference. All Division I Conferences hold a conference tournament. Winners of each tournament get an automatic bid to the NCAA ...
The 2025 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament is the upcoming postseason men's basketball tournament for the Southern Conference for the 2024–25 season. All tournament games will be played at the Harrah's Cherokee Center in Asheville, North Carolina , from March 7–10, 2025.
The Selection Committee, which includes conference commissioners and university athletic directors appointed by the NCAA, determines the bracket during the week before the tournament. Since the results of several conference tournaments occurring during the same week can significantly impact the bracket, the Committee often makes several ...
The SEC leads the way with nine locks, as the conference's strength of schedule has battled tested most of the league for March. Likely NCAA Tournament teams. ACC: None. Big Ten: UCLA, Illinois ...
The 18-team conference is projected to have 10 members in the tournament field in the latest USA TODAY Sports Bracketology And that group from the league are moving up and down the field and ...
In January 2016, the NCAA approved championship games for smaller conferences, provided the championship game features either (1) the top two teams at the end of a full round-robin conference schedule, or (2) the winners of each of two divisions, with each team playing a full round-robin schedule within its division. [6]
A total of 68 teams entered the 2021 tournament, with 31 of them (down from 32, due to the Ivy League having canceled all winter semester sports due to COVID-19) [6] having received an automatic bid by winning their conference's tournament. The remaining 37 bids were "at-large", with selections extended by the NCAA Selection Committee.
The NCAA has presented a plan to Division I conference commissioners that would expand the lucrative men's and women's basketball tournaments by four or eight teams alongside an option to leave ...