Bids By Conference
Thirty-one conferences earned an automatic bid. In nineteen cases, the automatic bid was the only representative from the conference. Thirty-three additional at-large teams were selected from twelve of the conferences.
| Bids | Conference | Teams |
| 7 | Big 12 | Texas A&M, Baylor, Iowa St., Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oklahoma St., Texas |
| 7 | Big East | Connecticut, DePaul, Georgetown, Notre Dame, Rutgers, St. John’s NY, West Virginia |
| 6 | Atlantic Coast | Duke, Florida St., Georgia Tech, North Carolina, North Carolina St., Virginia |
| 6 | Southeastern | Tennessee, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi St., Vanderbilt |
| 4 | Big Ten | Ohio St., Iowa, Michigan St., Wisconsin |
| 3 | Atlantic 10 | Xavier, Dayton, Temple |
| 2 | America East | Vermont, Hartford |
| 2 | Horizon | Cleveland St., Green Bay |
| 2 | Mountain West | San Diego St., TCU |
| 2 | Pacific-10 | Stanford, UCLA |
| 2 | Sun Belt | Middle Tenn., UALR |
| 2 | Western Athletic | Louisiana Tech, Fresno St. |
| 1 | Atlantic Sun | East Tenn. St. |
| 1 | Big Sky | Portland St. |
| 1 | Big South | Liberty |
| 1 | Big West | UC Riverside |
| 1 | Colonial | James Madison |
| 1 | Conference USA | Tulane |
| 1 | Ivy | Princeton |
| 1 | Metro Atlantic | Marist |
| 1 | Mid-American | Bowling Green |
| 1 | Mid-Eastern | Hampton. |
| 1 | Missouri Valley | UNI |
| 1 | Northeast | St. Francis PA |
| 1 | Ohio Valley | Austin Peay |
| 1 | Patriot | Lehigh |
| 1 | Southern | Chattanooga |
| 1 | Southland | Lamar |
| 1 | Southwestern | Southern U. |
| 1 | Summit | South Dakota St. |
| 1 | West Coast | Gonzaga |
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