March Madness bracket tracker: Updated list of automatic bids to 2023 NCAA Tournament

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March Madness bracket tracker: Updated list of automatic bids to 2023 NCAA Tournament image

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.

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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.