Who’s in the 2023 NCAA Tournament? See Full List of Teams That Have Qualified for March Madness
By Sascha Paruk in College Basketball
Updated: March 12, 2023 at 2:40 pm EDTPublished:
- Conference tournaments are underway, which means auto-bids to the 2023 NCAA Tournament are being handed out
- The first conference championship game takes place on March 4, 2023, with the last on March 12 (Selection Sunday)
- The table below will be updated as each conference crowns its champion and hands out its bid to 2023 March Madness
The 2023 conference-tournament schedule is underway as of Monday, Feb. 27. The first championship games will take place on Saturday, March 4, with the final games early on Selection Sunday (March 12).
The table below lists the date of each conference title game and will be updated with the champions as they are decided.
Tournaments with title games on the same date are listed in alphabetical order (not the tip-off time of the game).
2023 NCAA Tournament – Automatic Bids by Conference
| Conference | Date of Championship | Champion |
|---|---|---|
| Ohio Valley Conference | March 4 | Southeast Missouri State |
| ASUN | March 5 | Kennesaw State |
| Big South | March 5 | UNC Asheville |
| Missouri Valley Conference | March 5 | Drake |
| Southern Conference | March 6 | Furman |
| Sun Belt | March 6 | Louisiana |
| Colonial Conference | March 7 | Charleston |
| Horizon League | March 7 | Northern Kentucky |
| Northeast Conference | March 7 | Fairleigh Dickinson (Merrimack won tournament but is ineligible) |
| Summit League | March 7 | Oral Roberts |
| WCC | March 7 | Gonzaga |
| Big Sky | March 8 | Montana State |
| Patriot League | March 8 | Colgate |
| Southland Conference | March 8 | Texas A&M-CC |
| ACC | March 11 | Duke |
| America East | March 11 | Vermont |
| Big East | March 11 | Marquette |
| Big West | March 11 | UC Santa Barbara |
| Big 12 | March 11 | Texas |
| C-USA | March 11 | FAU |
| MAC | March 11 | Kent State |
| MAAC | March 11 | Iona |
| MEAC | March 11 | Howard |
| Mountain West | March 11 | San Diego State |
| PAC-12 | March 11 | UCLA |
| SWAC | March 11 | Texas Southern |
| WAC | March 11 | Grand Canyon |
| AAC | March 12 | Memphis |
| A10 | March 12 | VCU |
| Big Ten | March 12 | Purdue |
| Ivy League | March 12 | Princeton |
| SEC | March 12 | Alabama |
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Timeline of Conference-Tournament Updates
- Mar. 12 (AAC): Memphis upset No. 1 Houston in the AAC title game as five-point underdogs. The Tigers were safely in the field as an at-large, but will move up at least one seed line after taking down the top team in the country.
- Mar. 12 (Ivy): Princeton stunned top-seed Yale in the Ivy League title game (74-65), earning their first NCAA Tournament bid since 2017.
- Mar. 8 (Patriot): Colgate came through as the Patriot League chalk, routing Lafayette 79-61 in the title game.
- Mar. 7 (WCC): Gonzaga absolutely hammered Saint Mary’s (77-51) in the WCC title game.
- Mar. 7 (Northeast): Merrimack won the Northeast Conference, but because the Warriors are ineligible (recently transitioned to DI), runner-up Fairleigh Dickinson receives the auto-bid from the conference.
- Mar. 6 (Southern): Furman handled Chattanooga 87-79 in the Southern Conference title game to earn its first NCAA Tournament bid since 1980.
- Mar. 5 (ASUN): An early hit to teams on the bubble; Kennesaw State upset Liberty in the ASUN title game. Ranked 40th in the NET, Liberty (23-8) has an excellent chance to still qualify for March Madness as an at-large team.
- Mar. 5 (MVC): Drake lit up Bradley in the MVC final (77-55) and will make it’s second NCAA Tournament appearance in the last three years (but also just its second since 2008). Ranked 60th in the NET, Bradley has a very slim chance at an at-large berth.
- Mar. 5 (Big South): UNC Asheville downed Campbell in the Big South title game (77-73) to earn its first March Madness bid since 2016.
- Mar. 4 (OVC): Southeast Missouri State is the first team officially in the 2023 NCAA Tournament, beating Tennessee Tech 89-82 in the final of the OVC championship game.
- Feb. 27: The first conference tournament tipped off today, but the first championship game will not be played until Saturday, March 4 (Ohio Valley Conference).
SBD also calculates the latest projected March Madness bracket. That page will reflect the final bracket on Selection Sunday.
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