News Flash: Conference Championships

I can't contain my giddy and excitement for the next 11 days!

It's NCAA Division I men's/women's conference championship play nationwide!

A few conferences actually started their conference play on Tuesday, March 3rd (i.e., Atlantic Sun, Big South, Horizon, etc.), but the bulk of the teams really start getting dirty this weekend and all the way until Sunday, March 15th!

This leads us to....Selection Sunday!

Selection Sunday is the Sunday before the Madness starts (March 15th), where the field of 68 is announced. Qualifying for the Big Dance is done in two ways; get an automatic bid or be selected as one of the 36 best remaining teams for an at-large bid.

There are 32 conferences that receive automatic bids and all but one are decided by a conference championship tournament. The lone exception is the Ivy League which doesn’t have a conference tournament championship, so the regular season champion gets the automatic bid.

Ok! So when is your alma mater or college team playing? I got you covered! Here is a table of the 32 conferences and the dates in which the conference play starts and ends. (A few conferences play sporadically on a few days, rather than a consistent schedule [e.g., Thursday-Saturday]. I have just denoted the entire time frame from start to finish!).

Conference	March Conference Play	Conference	March Conference Play
American East	4th – 14th	MAC	11th – 14th
American	12th – 15th	MEAC	9th – 14th
Atlantic 10	10th – 15th	Missouri Valley	5th – 8th
ACC	10th – 14th	Mountain West	11th – 14th
Atlantic Sun	3rd – 8th	Northeast	4th – 10th
Big 12	11th – 14th	Ohio Valley	4th – 7th
Big East	11th – 14th	PAC-12	11th – 14th
Big Sky	12th – 14th	Patriot League	3rd – 11th
Sig South	3rd – 8th	SEC	11th -15th
Big Ten	11th – 15th	Southern	7th – 10th
Big West	12th – 14th	Southland	11th – 15th
Colonial	6th – 9th	SWAC	10th – 14th
Conference USA	11th -14th	Summit League	7th – 10th
Horizon	3rd – 10th	Sun Belt	12th – 15th
Ivy League	(No Tournament)	West Coast	6th – 10th
MAAC	5th – 9th	WAC	11th – 14th

Question of the Day: Which conference(s) are you following? And, who do you hope to win?

Michelyn Cynthia