Updated March 11 -- final projections
CBS SportsLine.com's projections of the 65 schools that will make up this year's NCAA Tournament.
The Ivy League regular-season champion earns an automatic bid, as do the winners of the 30 conference tournaments. At-large bids are handed out to 34 additional schools, based on the strength of their regular seasons (which takes into account won-loss record, conference mark and strength of schedule).
Top four seeds by region
| Seed | Midwest | South | West | East |
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Bubble teams
Last four in: Purdue, Stanford, Old Dominion, Missouri StateLast four out: Drexel, Air Force, Illinois, Arkansas
Bids by conference
| America East (1) |
| Automatic bid: Albany |
| At-large: None |
| Bubble: None |
| Albany beat Vermont in Vermont's building to win the America East Tournament title. |
| ACC (7) |
| Projected champ: North Carolina |
| At-large: Boston College, Duke, Georgia Tech, Maryland, Virginia, Virginia Tech |
| Bubble: Florida State |
| A blowout loss to North Carolina plus the A-10 and WAC being two-bid leagues is probably too much for Florida State to overcome. |
| Atlantic Sun (1) |
| Automatic bid: Belmont |
| At-large: None |
| Bubble: None |
| Belmont is in the NCAA Tournament for the second consecutive season thanks to a wild shooting performance in the Atlantic Sun title game. |
| Atlantic 10 (2) |
| Automatic bid: George Washington |
| At-large: Xavier |
| Bubble: None |
| George Washington will get a low seed just like last year, only this time the Colonials won't be mad. |
| Big East (7) |
| Automatic bid: Georgetown |
| At-large: Louisville, Marquette, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Villanova |
| Bubble: West Virginia |
| Did a lack of transition defense at the end of regulation against Louisville really cost West Virginia a bid? Yes, I think it probably did. |
| Big Sky (1) |
| Automatic bid: Weber State |
| At-large: None |
| Bubble: None |
| Weber State is in the NCAA Tournament for the 14th time in school history. |
| Big South (1) |
| Automatic bid: Winthrop |
| At-large: None |
| Bubble: None |
| What would the committee have done if Winthrop lost to VMI in the Big South Tournament title game? Good thing for Winthrop we'll never have to know. |
| Big Ten (5) |
| Projected champ: Ohio State |
| At-large: Indiana, Michigan State, Purdue, Wisconsin |
| Bubble: Illinois |
| Illinois is 1-6 against the top 25, 4-9 against the top 50 and 8-11 against the top 100 at CollegeRPI.com. If Bruce Weber's team doesn't make the field, that's why. |
| Big 12 (4) |
| Projected champ: Kansas |
| At-large: Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech |
| Bubble: Kansas State |
| Kansas kept rolling, and the Jayhawks will play for the Big 12 Tournament title on Sunday against Kevin Durant (and Texas). |
| Big West (1) |
| Automatic bid: Long Beach State |
| At-large: None |
| Bubble: None |
| Long Beach State won its first Big West regular-season title in 11 years, plus the Big West Tournament title. |
| Colonial (2) |
| Automatic bid: Virginia Commonwealth |
| At-large: Old Dominion |
| Bubble: Drexel |
| VCU is the only safe team here. It could be a one-bid league, two-bid league or three-bid league. |
| Conference USA (1) |
| Automatic bid: Memphis |
| At-large: None |
| Bubble: None |
| Memphis won its second consecutive C-USA Tournament since losing to Louisville in the 2005 league championship game. |
| Horizon League (2) |
| Automatic bid: Wright State |
| At-large: Butler |
| Bubble: None |
| Butler has dropped four of its past eight contests, including the Horizon League Tournament title game. |
| Ivy League (1) |
| Automatic bid: Penn |
| At-large: None |
| Bubble: None |
| Penn secured the Ivy League's automatic bid with its third straight league title. |
| MAAC (1) |
| Automatic bid: Niagara |
| At-large: None |
| Bubble: None |
| Niagara is in the NCAA Tournament for the second time in three years. |
| MAC (1) |
| Automatic bid: Miami of Ohio |
| At-large: None |
| Bubble: None |
| Imagine losing a trip to the NCAA Tournament on a banked-in 3-pointer. The guys at Akron will never get over that play. |
| MEAC (1) |
| Automatic bid: Florida A&M |
| At-large: None |
| Bubble: None |
| Florida A&M is back in the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2004. |
| Mid-Continent (1) |
| Automatic bid: Oral Roberts |
| At-large: None |
| Bubble: None |
| Oral Roberts is in the NCAA Tournament for the second time in two years. |
| Missouri Valley (3) |
| Automatic bid: Creighton |
| At-large: Missouri State, Southern Illinois |
| Bubble: None |
| Will the selection committee consider how Missouri State was screwed at the buzzer at Saint Louis? If so, that's good for the Bears. |
| Mountain West (2) |
| Automatic bid: UNLV |
| At-large: BYU |
| Bubble: Air Force |
| UNLV used a home-court advantage to earn the MWC's automatic bid. |
| Northeast (1) |
| Automatic bid: Central Connecticut State |
| At-large: None |
| Bubble: None |
| Central Connecticut State beat Sacred Heart to earn the league's automatic bid Wednesday. |
| Ohio Valley (1) |
| Automatic bid: Eastern Kentucky |
| At-large: None |
| Bubble: None |
| Eastern Kentucky upset Austin Peay to earn the Ohio Valley's automatic bid. |
| Pac-10 (6) |
| Automatic bid: Oregon |
| At-large: Arizona, Southern California, Stanford, UCLA, Washington State |
| Bubble: None |
| UCLA should still be a No. 1 seed, but the Bruins' two-game losing streak left a little room for debate. |
| Patriot League (1) |
| Automatic bid: Holy Cross |
| At-large: None |
| Bubble: None |
| Holy Cross made 16 consecutive free throws down the stretch, beat Bucknell and earned a bid to the NCAA Tournament. |
| SEC (4) |
| Projected champ: Florida |
| At-large: Kentucky, Tennessee, Vanderbilt |
| Bubble: Arkansas |
| Florida suddenly looks OK, doesn't it? |
| Southern (1) |
| Automatic bid: Davidson |
| At-large: None |
| Bubble: Appalachian State |
| Appalachian State has 25 wins, but it probably won't be enough for an at-large bid. |
| Southland (1) |
| Projected champ: Texas A&M-Corpus Christi |
| At-large: None |
| Bubble: None |
| Texas A&M-Corpus-Christi, in its first year in the Southland, won the regular-season title. |
| Sun Belt (1) |
| Automatic bid: North Texas |
| At-large: None |
| Bubble: None |
| North Texas is in the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1988. |
| SWAC (1) |
| Automatic bid: Jackson State |
| At-large: None |
| Bubble: None |
| Trey Johnson, the nation's second leading scorer, will be in the NCAA Tournament. |
| WAC (2) |
| Automatic bid: New Mexico State |
| At-large: Nevada |
| Bubble: None |
| Nevada did the WAC a favor by losing, but this team won't have the type of seed it needs to ensure advancement in the NCAA Tournament. |
| West Coast (1) |
| Automatic bid: Gonzaga |
| At-large: None |
| Bubble: None |
| Mark Few didn't compromise himself by playing Josh Heytvelt with a bid on the line, and it paid off. That's called good karma, folks. |
