NCAA Tournament Projections: Week 6

We are just a couple of weeks away from Selection Sunday. Conference tournaments start this week and its time for teams to scramble for another good win or two, or maybe even a Cinderella run through the conference tournament so they can go dancing in the middle of March. Who’s in? Who’s out? Well, here is the sixth installment of our NCAA Tournament projections.

Just a reminder, automatic bids are given to the team currently leading the conference.

Let’s start with conferences that will absolutely be getting only one bid (these teams need to maintain their spots at the top to make the dance):
America East: Vermont
Atlantic Sun: East Tennessee State
Big Sky: Weber State
Big West: Long Beach State
Ivy: Pennsylvania
Metro Atlantic Athletic: Marist
Mid Continent: Oral Roberts
Mid-America: Toledo
Mid-Eastern Athletic: Delaware State
Northeast: Central Connecticut State
Ohio Valley: Austin Peay
Patriot: Bucknell
Southern: Davidson
Southland: Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
Southwest Athletic: Mississippi Valley State
Sunbelt: South Alabama

The following conferences will be one-bid conferences if the current leader wins the conference. If the current leader does not win the conference tournament, they are potentially two-bid conferences.

Big South: Winthrop
Conference USA: Memphis
Western Athletic: Nevada

Now for the rest of the conferences (total current bids in parenthesis):

Atlantic 10 (1):
In – Xavier (automatic bid)
On the Bubble – Massachusetts

Atlantic Coast Conference (6):
In – North Carolina (automatic bid), Boston College, Duke, Virginia Tech, Maryland, Virginia
On the Bubble – Clemson, Georgia Tech, Florida State

Big 12 (5):
In – Kansas (automatic bid), Texas A&M, Texas, Texas Tech, Kansas State
On the Bubble – Oklahoma State

Big East (7):
In – Georgetown (automatic bid), Marquette, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, West Virginia, Villanova, Louisville
On the Bubble – Syracuse

Big Ten (5):
In – Wisconsin (automatic bid), Ohio State, Indiana, Michigan State, Illinois
On the Bubble – Purdue, Michigan

Colonial Athletic (2):
In – Virginia Commonwealth (automatic bid), Old Dominion
On the Bubble – Drexel

Horizon (2):
In – Wright State (automatic bid), Butler
On the Bubble – None

Missouri Valley (3):
In – Southern Illinois (automatic bid), Creighton, Missouri State
On the Bubble – Bradley

Mountain West (3):
In – BYU (automatic bid), UNLV, Air Force
On the Bubble – San Diego State

Pacific-10 (6):
In – UCLA (automatic bid), Oregon, Washington State, USC, Arizona, Stanford
On the Bubble – None

Southeastern (5):
In – Florida (automatic bid), Kentucky, Alabama, Vanderbilt, Tennessee
On the Bubble – Georgia

West Coast Conference (1):
In – Santa Clara (automatic bid)
On the Bubble – Gonzaga

Final Four In: Texas Tech, Alabama, West Virginia, Kansas State
First Four Out: Oklahoma State, San Diego State, Purdue, Georgia Tech

I am going to attempt to seed them today and post that later. Not sure how it will go since it is my first time seeding this year, so check back later today to see who gets what seed.

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