Conference championship week is here, and that means 32 college basketball teams will have claimed an automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA Tournament before Selection Sunday on March 11.
Five teams — including Big Ten champion Michigan — were already are in the Big Dance as of Sunday night. Two more tickets will be punched Monday night, with 25 more coming before Selection Sunday.
MARCH MADNESS: Projected NCAA Tournament bracket
Sporting News will track all of those automatic bids to the 2018 NCAA Tournament below as the bracket starts to fill out. Here's who is going to the Big Dance so far:
NCAA Tournament automatic bids
| America East | TBD March 10 |
| American Athletic | TBD March 11 |
| Atlantic 10 | TBD March 11 |
| ACC | TBD March 11 |
| Atlantic Sun | Lipscomb (23-9) |
| Big 12 | TBD March 10 |
| Big East | TBD March 10 |
| Big Sky | TBD March 10 |
| Big South | Radford (22-12) |
| Big Ten | Michigan (28-7) |
| Big West | TBD March 10 |
| Colonial Athletic | TBD March 6 |
| Conference USA | TBD March 10 |
| Horizon League | TBD March 6 |
| Ivy League | TBD March 11 |
| Metro Atlantic Athletic | TBD March 5 |
| Mid-American | TBD March 10 |
| Mid Eastern Athletic | TBD March 10 |
| Missouri Valley | Loyola-Chicago (28-5) |
| Mountain West | TBD March 10 |
| Northeast | TBD March 6 |
| Ohio Valley | Murray State (26-5) |
| Pac-12 | TBD March 10 |
| Patriot | TBD March 7 |
| SEC | TBD March 11 |
| Southern | TBD March 5 |
| Southland | TBD March 10 |
| Southwestern Athletic | TBD March 10 |
| Summit League | TBD March 6 |
| Sun Belt | TBD March 11 |
| West Coast | TBD March 6 |
| Western Athletic | TBD March 10 |
CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT BRACKETS:
AAC | ACC | Big 12 | Big East | Big Ten | Pac-12 | SEC
After Selection Sunday, the First Four games will kick off March Madness in Dayton, Ohio, on Tuesday, March 13, and Wednesday, March 14. The real first round begins after that on March 15 and 16, with the second round following on March 17 and 18.
