The college basketball regular season is over and the conference tournaments have come to an end. That can only mean one thing: March Madness is finally here. On Sunday night, we learned the 68 teams that will compete in this year’s version of the NCAA Tournament, but there was a twist, as the squads were revealed before the bracket itself.
We’re going to know where all of the teams are situated in a little bit, but for now, here are the 68 teams that will compete for a national championship this year. To start, here are the teams that qualified by winning their conference tournaments.
- Arizona
- Bucknell
- Buffalo
- Cal State Fullerton
- Cincinnati
- College of Charleston
- Davidson
- Georgia State
- Gonzaga
- Iona
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Lipscomb
- LIU Brooklyn
- Loyola-Chicago
- Marshall
- Michigan
- Montana
- Murray State
- New Mexico State
- North Carolina Central
- Penn
- Radford
- San Diego State
- South Dakota State
- Stephen F. Austin
- Texas Southern
- UMBC
- UNC Greensboro
- Villanova
- Virginia
- Wright State
And here are the teams that received at-large bids to the Big Dance.
- Alabama
- Arizona State
- Arkansas
- Auburn
- Butler
- Clemson
- Creighton
- Duke
- Florida
- Florida State
- Houston
- Kansas State
- Miami
- Michigan State
- Missouri
- NC State
- Nevada
- North Carolina
- Ohio State
- Oklahoma
- Providence
- Purdue
- Rhode Island
- Seton Hall
- St. Bonaventure
- Syracuse
- TCU
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Texas A&M
- Texas Tech
- UCLA
- Virginia Tech
- West Virginia
- Wichita State
- Xavier
The ACC led all conferences with nine teams, while the SEC was right on its tail with eight. There will surely be plenty of discussion in the coming days regarding which teams made it and which teams did not, but one of these 68 teams will be crowned the 2017-18 national champions in a few weeks.
