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Thirty of the teams earned automatic bids by winning their conference tournaments. The automatic bid of the Ivy League, which did not conduct a postseason tournament, went to its regular season champion. The remaining 34 teams were granted at-large bids, which were extended by the NCAA Selection Committee. All teams were seeded within their ...
The remaining 34 teams were granted "at-large" bids by the NCAA Selection Committee. Two teams play an opening-round game, popularly called the "play-in game". The winner of that game advances to the main draw of the tournament as a 16 seed and plays a top seed in one of the regionals. The 2009 game was played on Tuesday, March 17, at the ...
This is a list of NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament bids by school, and is updated through 2024. [1] There are currently 68 bids possible each year (31 automatic qualifiers, 37 at-large). Schools not currently in Division I are in italics (e.g., CCNY) and some have appeared under prior names (e.g., UTEP went by Texas Western in 1966).
Even if the SEC finishes a bid or two short of 14 qualifiers, it threatens to break the record of 11 NCAA bids, set by the 2011 Big East. That's the only time any league reached double figures.
The 2009 National Invitation Tournament was a single-elimination tournament of 32 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I teams that were not selected to participate in the 2009 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.
Yahoo Sports has all of the automatic NCAA tournament bids, along with recaps of the major college conference title games. [Free bracket contests for women's & men's tourneys for shot at $25K ...
That harsh but motivating news conference apparently came a few games too late for the Johnnies to salvage an NCAA bid. St. John’s did not hear its name called on Sunday despite reeling off five ...
The Louisville Cardinals defeated the Syracuse Orange 76–66 in the tournament finals to earn the Big East tournament championship for the first time, and received the Big East Conference's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA tournament. This was the first Big East tournament to include all 16 of the conference's teams.