March Madness 2024: Every team that has earned an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament

With conference tournaments over, here are all the teams who have earned a bid to the NCAA Tournament

By David Cobb

Mar 17, 2024 at 5:41 pm ET • 2 min read

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The final automatic bids for the 2024 NCAA Tournament were distributed Sunday in the hours leading up to the Selection Show. With No. 1 seeds going down across the country in their conference tournaments, the Big Dance is going to include some surprise participants.

Among them is Duquesne, which won the A-10 Tournament as the No. 6 seed by edging No. 5 seed VCU 57-51 in Sunday's title game. The Dukes nearly squandered an 18-point lead but survived to reach their first NCAA Tournament since 1977.

Yale also joined the flood of tournament-bound teams on Sunday with a remarkable rally in the final 30 seconds to edge Brown 62-61 in the Ivy League final on a buzzer-beater from Matt Knowling. The Bulldogs trailed by six before the Bears missed three of their final four free throw attempts to leave the door open for Yale to make its second NCAA Tournament appearance of the last three years.

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One of the final automatic bids went to UAB, which won the AAC Tournament as the No. 4 seed by blasting Temple 85-69. The Blazers will be making their second Big Dance appearance of the last three seasons after a successful debut campaign in the AAC. Finally, Illinois punched its ticket by outlasting Wisconsin in the Big Ten Tournament title game.

Here is the full list of teams that secured automatic bids in the 2024 NCAA Tournament by winning their conference tournaments.

Sunday's conference tournament scoreboard

Ivy League: Championship
(2) Yale 62, (4) Brown 61 | Recap

Atlantic 10: Championship
(6) Duquesne 57, (5) VCU 51 | Recap

SEC: Championship LIVE updates
(4) Auburn 86, (6) Florida 67

AAC: Championship
(4) UAB 85, (11) Temple 69 | Recap

Big Ten: Championship LIVE updates
(2) Illinois 93, (5) Wisconsin 87

2024 conference tournament schedules, champions

All times ET

Conference	City	Dates	Champion
ACC	Washington D.C.	March 12-16	NC State (22-14)
America East	Campus Sites	March 9, 12, 16	Vermont (28-6)
American	Fort Worth, Texas	March 13-17	UAB (23-11)
ASUN	Campus Sites	March 4-5, 7, 10	Stetson (22-12)
Atlantic 10	Brooklyn	March 12-14, 16-17	Duquesne (24-11)
Big 12	Kansas City	March 12-16	Iowa State (27-7)
Big East	New York City	March 13-16	UConn (31-3)
Big Sky	Boise, Idaho	March 9, 10-13	Montana State (17-17)
Big South	High Point, North Carolina	March 6, 8-10	Longwood (21-13)
Big Ten	Minneapolis	March 13-17	Illinois (26-8)
Big West	Henderson, Nevada	March 13-16	Long Beach State (20-14)
Coastal Athletic	Washington, D.C.	March 8-12	Charleston (27-7)
Conference USA	Huntsville, Alabama	March 12-16	Western Kentucky (21-11)
Horizon League	Campus sites \| Indianapolis	March 5, 7, 11-12	Oakland (23-11)
Ivy	New York City	March 16-17	Yale (22-9)
MAAC	Atlantic City, New Jersey	March 12-16	Saint Peter's (19-13)
MAC	Cleveland	March 14-16	Akron (23-10)
MEAC	Norfolk, Virginia	March 13-16	Howard (18-16)
Missouri Valley	St. Louis	March 7-10	Drake (28-6)
Mountain West	Las Vegas	March 13-16	New Mexico (26-9)
Northeast	Campus Sites	March 6, 9, 12	Wagner (16-15)
Ohio Valley	Evansville, Indiana	March 6-9	Morehead State (26-8)
Pac-12	Las Vegas	March 13-16	Oregon (75-68)
Patriot	Campus Sites	March 5, 7, 10, 13	Colgate (25-9)
SEC	Nashville	March 13-17	Auburn (27-7)
Southern	Asheville, North Carolina	March 8-11	Samford (29-5)
Southland	Lake Charles, Louisiana	March 10-13	McNeese (30-3)
Summit	Sioux Falls, South Dakota	March 8-12	South Dakota State (22-12)
Sun Belt	Pensacola, Florida	March 5, 7, 9, 10-11	James Madison (31-3)
SWAC	Birmingham, Alabama	March 13-16	Grambling (19-14)
WAC	Las Vegas	March 13-16	Grand Canyon (29-4)
WCC	Las Vegas	March 7-9, 11-12	Saint Mary's (26-7)