March Madness automatic bids tracker: List of teams that have clinched spots in the Men's NCAA Tournament

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Selection Sunday is here, and a good percentage of the 2025 March Madness field is already in through the automatic bids. With conference tournaments wrapping up, the field is shaping up. We still have to wait to see exactly how the bracket is going to wind up looking, but we continue to see teams punch their ticket to the NCAA Tournament.

Let's take a deeper dive into the 2025 March Madness automatic bids tracker to see how this is shaping out.

2025 March Madness automatic bids tracker

The table below is all of the conferences and the teams that received the automatic bid for the 2025 March Madness. These teams have automatically qualified for the NCAA Tournament and will not need to wait to see if they make it in on Selection Sunday. However, they will see which region they will play in as well as their seeding.

Conference	Team
America East	Bryant
American Athletic	N/A
Atlantic 10	N/A
ACC	Duke
ASUN	Lipscomb
Big 12	Houston
Big East	St. John's
Big Sky	Montana
Big South	High Point
Big Ten	N/A
Big West	UC San Diego
CAA	UNC Wilmington
Conference USA	Liberty
Horizon League	Robert Morris
Ivy League	Yale
MAAC	Mount St. Mary's
AMAC	Akron
MEAC	Norfolk State
Missouri Valley	Drake
Mountain West	Colorado State
Northeast	Saint Francis
Ohio Valley	SIUE
Patriot League	American University
SEC	Florida
Southern	Wofford
Southland	McNeese
SWAC	Alabama State
Summit League	Omaha
Sun Belt	Troy
West Coast	Gonzaga
WAC	Grand Canyon

How many automatic bids are there in March Madness?

Almost 50% of the NCAA Tournament is filled with automatic bids as 31 of the 68 spots in March Madness are filled by automatic bids. The remaining 37 slots in the bracket will be filled by teams that did not receive the automatic bid and will be unveiled during the Selection Sunday show after being selected by the NCAA Tournament selection committee.

How automatic bids affect bracket seeding

The automatic bids do not significantly impact the bracket seeding. Seeding is more determined by a group of factors instead of solely by automatic bids so it plays a part, but does not guarantee a specific seed.

Does every conference get an automatic bid?

Every NCAA Division I basketball conference gets one automatic bid to allow for a more wide-open field of opponents. The 31 conferences each are awarded the automatic bid that the conference receives while the other remaining members wait until Selection Sunday to see if they are going to be in the NCAA Tournament as well.

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