Bids By Conference
Thirty-one conferences earned an automatic bid. In twenty-two cases, the automatic bid was the only representative from the conference. Thirty-three additional at-large teams were selected from nine of the conferences.
| Bids | Conference | Teams |
| 8 | Big 12 | Texas A&M, Baylor, Iowa St., Kansas St., Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oklahoma St., Texas |
| 8 | Big East | Connecticut, DePaul, Louisville, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, Syracuse, West Virginia |
| 6 | Atlantic Coast | North Carolina, Duke, Florida St., Georgia Tech, Maryland., Virginia |
| 5 | Southeastern | Tennessee, Auburn, Georgia, LSU, Vanderbilt |
| 4 | Big Ten | Purdue, Iowa, Minnesota, Ohio St. |
| 3 | Atlantic 10 | Xavier, George Washington, Temple |
| 3 | Mountain West | New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming |
| 3 | Pacific-10 | Stanford, Arizona St., California |
| 2 | Conference USA | SMU, UTEP |
| 1 | America East | Hartford |
| 1 | Atlantic Sun | East Tenn. St. |
| 1 | Big Sky | Montana |
| 1 | Big South | Liberty |
| 1 | Big West | UC Santa Barb. |
| 1 | Colonial | Old Dominion |
| 1 | Horizon | Cleveland St. |
| 1 | Ivy | Cornell |
| 1 | Metro Atlantic | Marist |
| 1 | Mid-American | Miami Ohio |
| 1 | Mid-Eastern | Coppin St. |
| 1 | Missouri Valley | Illinois St. |
| 1 | Northeast | Robert Morris |
| 1 | Ohio Valley | Murray St. |
| 1 | Patriot | Bucknell |
| 1 | Southern | Chattanooga |
| 1 | Southland | UTSA |
| 1 | Southwestern | Jackson St. |
| 1 | Summit | Oral Roberts |
| 1 | Sun Belt | Western Ky. |
| 1 | West Coast | San Diego |
| 1 | Western Athletic | Fresno St. |
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