March Madness

Here are teams that have won an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament
Morehead State (Ohio Valley)
UNC Asheville (Big South)
Belmont (Atlantic Sun)
Indiana State (MVC)
Saint Peter's (MAAC)
Old Dominion (CAA)
Wofford (Southern)
Gonzaga (WCC)
Arkansas Little Rock (Sun Belt)
Oakland (Summit)
Butler (Horizon)
Long Island (NEC)
Northern Colorado (Big Sky)
Bucknell (Patriot)

NCAA tournament 

March 20

Records by conferences (sorted by winning percentage) through Duke over Butler
Horizon 5-1 (83.3%)

ACC 10-5 (66.7%)
Ivy 2-1 (66.7%)
MVC 2-1 (66.7%)

Big Ten 9-5 (64.3%)

Pac 10 3-2 (60%)
WCC 3-2 (60%) 

Big 12 9-7 (56.25%)

SEC 5-4 (55.5%)


Big East 8-8 (50%)
CAA 1-1 (50%)
MAC 1-1 (50%)
Ohio Valley 1-1 (50%)
SWAC 1-1 (50%)

A 10 2-3 (40%)
MWC 2-3 (40%) 

America East 0-1 (0%)
Atlantic Sun 0-1 (0%)
Big Sky 0-1 (0%)
Big South 0-1 (0%)
Big West 0-1 (0%)
Conference USA 0-2 (0%)
MAAC 0-1 (0%)
MEAC 0-1 (0%)
Northeast 0-1 (0%)
Patriot 0-1 (0%)
Southern 0-1 (0%)
Southland 0-1 (0%)
Summit 0-1 (0%)
Sun Belt 0-1 (0%)
WAC 0-2 (0%)

NCAA Tournament Expansion

March 31

According to big ten commissioner, Jim Delaney, the NCAA tournament is "probable" to expand to 96 teams. If this goes through it will start 2011. The NCAA will meet April 21 or 29? to decide on this.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/tournament/2010/news/story?id=5043254

Selection Sunday

March 14

The field of 65 has been announced. The 4 #1 seeds in order are Kansas, Kentucky, Duke and Syracuse. My preseason national championship game was Kansas and Kentucky and I am going to stick to it. There are a lot of interesting 1st round games like Marquette vs Washington, Gonzaga vs Florida State, Oklahoma State vs Georgia Tech and Texas vs Wake Forest. I was really surprised that Washington got an 11 seed after beating Cal in the PAC 10 Championship. BTW can we please get rid of the play in game between Arkansas Pine Bluff and Winthrop.