Hi all! Sorry this article is late, but I made up for it by doing not 5, not 10, but ALL the remaining conferences. We now only have 72 teams left competing for at-large bids.
Here are the results from the remaining conferences as far as who is eliminated from an at-large:
Big West: Everyone
Conference USA: Everyone
Colonial: Everyone
Horizon: Everyone
MAAC: Everyone
Mid-American: Everyone
MEAC: Everyone
Missouri Valley: Everyone but Drake and Loyola Chicago
Mountain West: Everyone but Utah State, Boise State, and San Diego State
Northeast: Everyone
Ohio Valley: Everyone but Belmont and Eastern Kentucky
Pac-12: Everyone but UCLA, Oregon, USC, Arizona, and Colorado
Patriot League: Everyone
SEC: Everyone but Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee, Alabama, LSU, and Florida (yes, that means Kentucky needs to win the SEC tournament to get in)
SWAC: Everyone
Southern: Everyone
Southland: Everyone
Summit League: Everyone
Sun Belt: Everyone
WAC: Everyone
West Coast: Everyone but Gonzaga (duh) and BYU
Teams Remaining: 72
Wow, only 72 teams left after the first pass! Eventually that number will dwindle all the way down to 36 on Selection Sunday. Sometime in February we’ll run through the remaining teams and eliminate the ones who’ve lost too much. Until then, go ‘Cats!