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The top seeds made their mark over the last three weekends with 21 of 30 conference tournament winners having a 1 in front of its name.  The only conference that didn’t have a conference tournament was the Ivy League. Dartmouth finished in a three-way tie with Cornell and Harvard but the Big Green got the nod via a tiebreak. There were 18 repeat champions with only Vanderbilt and Furman able to win the tournament on its home court. The longest shot to win a conference tournament was South Florida. The Bulls entered the AAC Tournament as the No. 7 seed but they knocked No. 10 Temple, No. 2 Tulane, No. 3 SMU, and then No. 1 Tulsa to win the title.  Down below I have the breakdown by seed along with the list of each conference champion. 

Conference Tournament Champion Breakdown (by seed):

#1. 21 (Alabama State, Denver Furman, LIU-Brooklyn, Louisiana-Monroe, Missouri-Kansas City, North Carolina, Ohio State, Pepperdine, Quinnipiac, Rice, SIU-Edwardsville, South Carolina State, Stanford, Texas Tech, Texas A&M Corpus Christi, Vanderbilt, Wichita State, William & Mary, Winthrop, Youngstown State)

#2. 6 (Boston U, DePaul, Idaho, Massachusetts, North Florida, UC Santa Barbara)

#3. 2 (Buffalo, San Jose State)

#7. 1 (South Florida)

 

Women’s Champions (with seed listed)
American Athletic Conference – #7 South Florida
Atlantic Coast Conference – #1 North Carolina
Atlantic Sun Conference – #2 North Florida
Atlantic 10 Conference – #2 UMass
Big East Conference – #2 DePaul
Big Sky Conference – #2 Idaho
Big South Conference – #1 Winthrop
Big Ten Conference – #1 Ohio State
Big 12 Conference – #1 Texas Tech
Big West Conference – #2 UC Santa Barbara
Colonial Athletic Association – #1 William & Mary 
Conference USA – #1 Rice
Horizon League – #1 Youngstown State
The Ivy League – Dartmouth
Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference – #1 Quinnipiac
Mid-American Conference – #3 Buffalo
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference – #1 South Carolina State
Missouri Valley Conference – #1 Wichita State
Mountain West Conference – #3 San Jose State
Northeast Conference – #1 LIU Brooklyn 
Ohio Valley Conference – #1 SIU Edwardsville
Pac-12 Conference – #1 Stanford
Patriot League – #2 Boston University
Southeastern Conference – #1 Vanderbilt
Southern Conference – #1 Furman 
Southland Conference – #1 Texas A&M Corpus Christi
Southwestern Athletic Conference – #1 Alabama State
The Summit League – #1 Denver
Sun Belt Conference – #1 Louisiana-Monroe 
West Coast Conference – #1 Pepperdine
Western Athletic Conference – #1 UMKC

 

So we’ve seen the 31 automatic qualifers now let’s take a look at those 33 at-large bids that will be awarded tomorrow afternoon at 5:30 p.m. ET. 

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The at-large bids have always been awarded based off the final ITA rankings of the regular season which were completed last night but won’t be published until this Thursday. The NCAA committee also used the rankings for seeding as well with the only real deviation coming when two adjacent teams played during the season. In some instances a head-to-head win made a team jump the team it beat though in other instances it did not. If you haven’t already checked out my rankings projections for this week they are available on the rankings tab in the menu – I have both the first and second runs listed side-by-side so you can compare them. The second run of the rankings is down below with automatic qualifiers noted with an AQ and the cut-off line highlighted in yellow. 

The final at-large selection this year is No. 40 since we had 7 conference champions ranked inside the top 40. Tulsa happens to be the team ranked No. 40 so even though they got surprised by South Florida in the final of the AAC Tournament they’ll still be heading to the dance. Florida International was the first team out while Oklahoma and Harvard were the next two out since both Alabama and Virginia had sub .500 records. 

 

Rank Women’s Rankings Points
1 Florida 82.72
2 Ohio State (AQ) 73.02
3 Vanderbilt (AQ) 72.37
4 North Carolina (AQ) 72.28
5 Georgia 67.93
6 Stanford (AQ) 66.41
7 Texas Tech (AQ) 63.71
8 Georgia Tech 61.28
9 Oklahoma State 54.84
10 Michigan 54.00
11 Auburn 53.48
12 Pepperdine (AQ) 51.69
13 Cal 51.22
14 South Carolina 50.11
15 Duke 49.42
16 Baylor 46.31
17 Kentucky 45.55
18 Mississippi State 43.90
19 Arkansas 42.36
20 Texas A&M 42.21
21 LSU 37.73
22 Texas 34.10
23 UCLA 32.19
24 Tennessee 31.98
25 USC 30.46
26 Arizona State 28.41
27 TCU 26.27
28 Miami 25.61
29 Ole Miss 24.35
30 NC State 23.94
31 Notre Dame 23.48
32 Washington 23.43
33 Wake Forest 23.25
34 Kansas 22.26
35 Oregon 22.12
36 Rice (AQ) 22.08
37 Florida State 21.01
38 Clemson 20.49
39 Northwestern 20.15
40 Tulsa 19.81
41 Alabama <.500 19.42
42 Florida International 18.96
43 Virginia <.500 18.34
44 Denver (AQ) 17.74
45 Dartmouth (AQ) 17.46
46 Oklahoma 16.26
47 UC Santa Barbara (AQ) 14.88
48 Harvard 14.13
49 Cornell 12.75
50 Illinois 12.16

 

Grid Broken Down By Seed Bands (for mobile viewing turn sideways)

 

 
Expected Top 16 Seeds:
1. Florida
2. Ohio State
3. Vanderbilt
4. North Carolina
5. Georgia
6. Stanford
7. Texas Tech
8. Georgia Tech
9. Oklahoma State
10. Michigan
11. Auburn
12. Pepperdine
13. California
14. South Carolina
15. Duke
16. Baylor
 
Final 16 Pairings (if hosts advance)
#1 Florida vs. #16 Baylor
#8 Georgia Tech vs. #9 Oklahoma State
#5 Georgia vs. #12 Pepperdine
#4 North Carolina vs. #13 California
 
#3 Vanderbilt vs. #14 South Carolina
#6 Stanford vs. #11 Auburn
#7 Texas Tech vs. #10 Michigan
#2 Ohio State vs. #15 Duke
 
There were no adjacent head-to-head results that should alter the top 16 seeds so what you see above is what it should be. 
 
Regional Hosts by Conference:
SEC (Florida, Vanderbilt, Georgia, Auburn, South Carolina)
Big 12 (Texas Tech, Oklahoma State, Baylor)
ACC (North Carolina, Georgia Tech, Duke)
Pac-12 (Stanford, California)
Big Ten (Ohio State, Michigan)
WCC (Pepperdine)

 

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