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March Madness bracket tracker: Teams who punched their ticket to the NCAA Tournament

By Patrick Schmidt

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - MARCH 10: The Gonzaga Bulldogs celebrate with the trophy after defeating the Saint Mary's Gaels 84-66 to win the championship game of the West Coast Conference basketball tournament at the Orleans Arena on March 10, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - MARCH 10: The Gonzaga Bulldogs celebrate with the trophy after defeating the Saint Mary's Gaels 84-66 to win the championship game of the West Coast Conference basketball tournament at the Orleans Arena on March 10, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) /
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March Madness is upon us and bids to the NCAA Tournament are getting claimed with the teams punching their ticket to the Big Dance by winning their conference tournaments.

The next few days are going to be absolute madness both on the court and off the court in college basketball.

On the court, several more tickets to the Big Dance will be punched with teams competing in their conference tournaments. Off the court, the NCAA has big decisions to make in regard to what they’ll do in response to concerns about the coronavirus. The Ivy League canceled its conference tournament for the men’s and women’s teams and the ACC, MAC, Big 12, SEC, and others have put precautions in place to prevent media access as a means to limit exposure.

But, let’s focus on the court and assume March Madness will go on as expected, whether there are fans in the stands or not.

Gonzaga became the 10th team to earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament by winning the West Coast Conference Tournament on Tuesday night. That likely locks them in as a No. 1 seed. But that still leaves 20 bids to be claimed in the coming days.

The weekend will be full of great matchups across the nation with teams trying to get off the bubble, improve their seeding for the tourney and teams looking to make their final statement to the NCAA Selection Committee.

Below you can keep track of the teams who have earned an automatic bid and those conferences still in the middle of their conference tournaments and when the Final of that league will be played and the bid won.

Due to the coronavirus, 14 conference tournaments were canceled before a champion was crowned. The regular-season champions receive the automatic bid. The conferences without a completed conference tourney are shown with an asterisk.

March Madness bracket 2020: Tracking automatic bids

  • America East: Vermont*
  • American Athletic: Cincinnati* (shared regular-season title)
  • Atlantic 10: Dayton*
  • ACC: Florida State*
  • Atlantic Sun: Liberty
  • Big 12: Kansas*
  • Big East: Creighton* (shared regular-season title)
  • Big Sky: Eastern Washington*
  • Big South: Winthrop
  • Big Ten: Wisconsin* (shared regular-season title)
  • Big West: UC Irvine*
  • Colonial Athletic: Hofstra
  • Conference USA: North Texas*
  • Horizon League: Northern Kentucky
  • Ivy League: Yale*
  • MAAC: Siena*
  • MAC: Akron*
  • MEAC: North Carolina Central*
  • Missouri Valley: Bradley
  • Mountain West: Utah State
  • Northeast: Robert Morris
  • Ohio Valley: Belmont
  • Pac-12: Oregon*
  • Patriot: Boston University
  • SEC: Kentucky*
  • Southern: East Tennessee State
  • Southland: Stephen F. Austin*
  • SWAC: Prairie View A&M*
  • Summit League: North Dakota State
  • Sun Belt: Little Rock*
  • West Coast: Gonzaga
  • WAC: New Mexico State*

And if you’re ready to get a headstart on filling out your March Madness bracket, you can use this blank one to print off at home so you can fill it in during Selection Sunday on March 15 during the CBS broadcast at 6 p.m. ET.

March Madness printable bracket
March Madness printable bracket /

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