March Madness bracket: Track automatic 2018 NCAA Tournament bids here

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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.

Bill Bender

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Bill Bender graduated from Ohio University in 2002 and started at The Sporting News as a fantasy football writer in 2007. He has covered the College Football Playoff, NBA Finals and World Series for SN. Bender enjoys story-telling, awesomely-bad 80s movies and coaching youth sports.