Selection Sunday has arrived, and there are five automatic bids left to be decided.
The 2022-23 NCAA men's basketball tournament will have 32 automatic bids. There were 13 automatic bids decided on Saturday, and that included Texas in the Big 12, Duke in the ACC and Arizona in the Pac-12.
The Big Ten and SEC are the last two major conferences that will determine their conference champions on Sunday. A look at Sunday's matchups:
CONFERENCE | MATCHUP |
Ivy | Princeton 74, Yale 65 |
SEC | Alabama 82, Texas A&M 63 |
Atlantic 10 | VCU 68, Dayton 56 |
AAC | Memphis 75, Houston 65 |
Big Ten | Purdue 67, Penn State 65 |
The other 36 at-large bids will be ticketed during the Selection Show on Sunday:
Here's a look at the full conference tournament schedule (in alphabetical order). The list below will be updated as teams clinch those automatic bids to the NCAA tournament.
2023 NCAA Tournament automatic bids
Tournament | Dates | Conference champion |
America East | March 4-11 | Vermont (23-10) |
AAC | March 10-12 | Memphis (26-8) |
Atlantic 10 | March 8-12 | VCU (27-7) |
ACC | March 8-11 | Duke (26-8) |
Atlantic Sun | March 1-5 | Kennesaw State (26-8) |
Big 12 | March 8-11 | Texas (26-8) |
Big East | March 8-11 | Marquette (28-6) |
Big Sky | March 4-8 | Montana State (25-9) |
Big South | March 1-5 | UNC-Asheville (27-7) |
Big Ten | March 8-12 | Purdue (29-5) |
Big West | March 7-11 | UC-Santa Barbara (27-7) |
CAA | March 3-7 | Charleston (31-3) |
C-USA | March 9-11 | Florida Atlantic (31-3) |
Horizon | March 2-7 | Northern Kentucky (22-12) |
Ivy League | March 11-12 | Princeton (21-8) |
MAAC | March 7-11 | Iona (27-7) |
MAC | March 7-11 | Kent State (28-6) |
MEAC | March 8-11 | Howard (22-12) |
MVC | March 4-5 | Drake (27-7) |
MWC | March 9-11 | San Diego State (27-6) |
Northeast | March 1-7 | Fairleigh Dickinson (19-15) |
OVC | March 1-4 | Southeast Missouri State (19-16) |
Pac-12 | March 8-11 | Arizona (28-6) |
Patriot | March 2-8 | Colgate (26-8) |
SEC | March 8-12 | Alabama (29-5) |
Southern | March 3-6 | Furman (27-7) |
Southland | March 5-8 | Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (23-10) |
SWAC | March 8-11 | Texas Southern (14-20) |
Summit | March 4-7 | Oral Roberts (30-4) |
Sun Belt | March 1-6 | Louisiana (26-7) |
West Coast | March 3-7 | Gonzaga (28-5) |
WAC | March 7-11 | Grand Canyon (24-11) |
After Selection Sunday, the First Four games will tip off March Madness on March 14. The real first round begins after that, on March 16. The second round follows from March 18-19. This year's Final Four is at the NRG Stadium in Houston from April 1-3.
Until the final bracket is released, follow SN's expert predictions in our Field of 68 projections released leading into Selection Sunday.
NCAA Tournament bracket predictions
Here are Sporting News' latest March Madness bracket predictions, according to Bill Bender: March Madness Bracket Predictions 7.0.