Bids By Conference
Thirty-one conferences earned an automatic bid. In twenty-three cases, the automatic bid was the only representative from the conference. Thirty-three additional at-large teams were selected from eight of the conferences.
| Bids | Conference | Teams |
| 8 | Big East | Boston College, Connecticut, Miami FL, Notre Dame, Rutgers, Villanova, Virginia Tech, West Virginia |
| 7 | Big 12 | Oklahoma, Baylor, Colorado, Kansas St., Missouri, Texas, Texas Tech |
| 7 | Southeastern | Vanderbilt, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, LSU, Mississippi, Tennessee |
| 6 | Big Ten | Purdue, Iowa, Michigan St., Minnesota, Ohio St., Penn St. |
| 4 | Atlantic Coast | Duke, Maryland., North Carolina, North Carolina St. |
| 4 | Conference USA | Houston, DePaul, Marquette, TCU |
| 3 | Pacific-10 | Stanford, Arizona, UCLA |
| 2 | Atlantic 10 | Temple, George Washington |
| 1 | America East | Maine |
| 1 | Atlantic Sun | Lipscomb |
| 1 | Big Sky | Montana |
| 1 | Big South | Liberty |
| 1 | Big West | UC Santa Barb. |
| 1 | Colonial | Old Dominion |
| 1 | Horizon | Green Bay |
| 1 | Ivy | Penn |
| 1 | Metro Atlantic | Marist |
| 1 | Mid-American | Eastern Mich. |
| 1 | Mid-Continent | Valparaiso |
| 1 | Mid-Eastern | Hampton |
| 1 | Missouri Valley | Missouri St. |
| 1 | Mountain West | New Mexico |
| 1 | Northeast | St. Francis Pa. |
| 1 | Ohio Valley | Austin Peay |
| 1 | Patriot | Colgate |
| 1 | Southern | Chattanooga |
| 1 | Southland | Northwestern St. |
| 1 | Southwestern | Southern U. |
| 1 | Sun Belt | Middle Tenn. |
| 1 | West Coast | Loyola Marymount |
| 1 | Western Athletic | Louisiana Tech |
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