College Basketball Conference RPI
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At a Glance
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Automatic Bid: Notre Dame
At-large bids: Duke, Louisville, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Virginia
Tournament: March 11-15, Greensboro
Automatic Bid: Albany
At-large bids: None
Tournament: March 4, 8, 14, Campus sites
Automatic Bid: SMU
At-large bids: Cincinnati
Tournament: March 12-15, Hartford
Automatic Bid: VCU
At-large bids: Davidson, Dayton
Tournament: March 11-15, Brooklyn
Automatic Bid: North Florida
At-large bids: None
Tournament: March 3, 5, 8, Campus sites
Automatic Bid: Iowa State
At-large bids: Baylor, Kansas, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, West Virginia
Tournament: March 11-14, Kansas City, Mo.
Automatic Bid: Villanova
At-large bids: Butler, Georgetown, Providence, St. John's, Xavier
Tournament: March 11-14, New York
Automatic Bid: Eastern Washington
At-large bids: None
Tournament: March 12-14, Regular Season Champ
Automatic Bid: Coastal Carolina
At-large bids: None
Tournament: March 4, 6-8, Conway, S.C.
Automatic Bid: Wisconsin
At-large bids: Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan State, Ohio State, Purdue
Tournament: March 11-15, Chicacgo
Automatic Bid: UC Irvine
At-large bids: None
Tournament: March 12-14, Anaheim, Calif.
Automatic Bid: Northeastern
At-large bids: None
Tournament: March 6-9, Baltimore
Automatic Bid: UAB
At-large bids: None
Tournament: March 11-14, Birmingham
Automatic Bid: Valparaiso
At-large bids: None
Tournament: March 3, 6-7, 10, Campus sites
Automatic Bid: Harvard
At-large bids: None
Tournament: No tournament.
Automatic Bid: Manhattan
At-large bids: None
Tournament: March 5, 7-9, Albany, N.Y.
Automatic Bid: Buffalo
At-large bids: None
Tournament: March 9, 11-14, Cleveland
Automatic Bid: Hampton
At-large bids: None
Tournament: March 9-14, Norfolk, Va.
Automatic Bid: Northern Iowa
At-large bids: Wichita State
Tournament: March 5-8, St. Louis
Automatic Bid: Wyoming
At-large bids: Boise State, Colorado State, San Diego State
Tournament: March 11-14, Las Vegas
Automatic Bid: Robert Morris
At-large bids: None
Tournament: March 4, 7, 10, Campus sites (higher seeds)
Automatic Bid: Belmont
At-large bids: None
Tournament: March 4-7, Nashville, Tenn.
Automatic Bid: Arizona
At-large bids: Oregon, Utah
Tournament: March 11-14, Las Vegas
Automatic Bid: Lafayette
At-large bids: None
Tournament: March 3, 5, 8, 11, Campus sites (higher seeds)
Automatic Bid: Kentucky
At-large bids: Arkansas, Georgia, LSU, Mississippi
Tournament: March 11-15, Nashville, Tenn.
Automatic Bid: Texas Southern
At-large bids: None
Tournament: March 11-14, Houston
Automatic Bid: Wofford
At-large bids: None
Tournament: March 6-9, Asheville, N.C.
Automatic Bid: Stephen F. Austin
At-large bids: None
Tournament: March 11-14, Katy, Texas
Automatic Bid: North Dakota State
At-large bids: None
Tournament: March 7-10, Sioux Falls, S.D.
Automatic Bid: Georgia State
At-large bids: None
Tournament: March 12-15, New Orleans
Automatic Bid: New Mexico State
At-large bids: None
Tournament: March 12-14, Las Vegas
Automatic Bid: Gonzaga
At-large bids: BYU
Tournament: March 6-7, 9-10, Las Vegas
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Atlantic Coast Conference vsConference NameW-L6-07-111-45-11-32-70-07-313-83-17-19-04-10-04-06-14-011-10-13-16-02-12-27-09-64-08-11-01-02-11-00-0Non-Division 11-0
Select ConferenceACCAmerica EastAmerican AthleticAtlantic 10Atlantic SunBig 12Big EastBig SkyBig SouthBig TenBig WestColonial AthleticConference USAHorizon LeagueIndependentsIvy LeagueMAACMEACMid-AmericanMissouri ValleyMountain WestNortheastOhio ValleyPac 12Patriot LeagueSWACSoutheasternSouthernSouthlandSummit LeagueSun BeltWest CoastWestern Athletic
Does not include conference games
ACC vs. Teams Ranked 1-25 (7-11)WinsSchoolRankOpponentDateSiteScore4Dec. 3Away13Dec. 3Away15Dec. 6Away20Dec. 7Home22Nov. 18Neutral22Dec. 3Home23Dec. 5HomeLossesSchoolRankOpponentDateSiteScore1121420232323242424ACC vs. Teams Ranked 26-50 (10-9)WinsSchoolRankOpponentDateSiteScore34Nov. 22Neutral34Dec. 30Home35Nov. 21Neutral38Nov. 14Home39Jan. 25Away41Nov. 28Home41Dec. 2Home41Dec. 20Neutral44Nov. 21Neutral46Dec. 31HomeLossesSchoolRankOpponentDateSiteScore263132323739444650ACC vs. Teams Ranked 51-100 (25-11)WinsSchoolRankOpponentDateSiteScore51Dec. 21Home51Jan. 14Home52Nov. 27Neutral55Dec. 20Neutral56Nov. 26Home56Dec. 28Away57Nov. 24Neutral58Dec. 14Home58Dec. 23Home59Nov. 22Neutral61Dec. 9Neutral66Nov. 30Neutral71Nov. 17Away71Nov. 28Neutral71Dec. 30Home73Dec. 2Home77Dec. 18Neutral79Dec. 29Home81Nov. 22Neutral83Nov. 21Home89Nov. 28Home93Dec. 30Home96Nov. 26Neutral97Dec. 17Home99Nov. 14NeutralLossesSchoolRankOpponentDateSiteScore5455617180818185919599ACC vs. Teams Ranked 101-200 (41-8)WinsSchoolRankOpponentDateSiteScore101Nov. 28Neutral104Dec. 20Home112Dec. 28Home112Dec. 30Home115Nov. 21Neutral116Dec. 20Away121Dec. 13Home124Dec. 3Away125Nov. 26Home125Dec. 18Home126Nov. 14Home126Dec. 14Home128Dec. 27Home135Dec. 30Home138Dec. 22Home145Dec. 14Home147Nov. 28Neutral149Nov. 14Away155Dec. 20Home155Dec. 22Home162Dec. 17Home164Nov. 28Home164Dec. 12Home167Nov. 16Home168Nov. 15Home168Dec. 17Home171Nov. 16Home171Dec. 30Home172Nov. 20Neutral173Nov. 17Home180Nov. 29Neutral185Dec. 31Home187Dec. 22Home189Nov. 26Home189Dec. 9Home190Feb. 2Home193Nov. 14Home194Dec. 22Home195Nov. 14Home200Nov. 28Home200Dec. 23HomeLossesSchoolRankOpponentDateSiteScore111137139147154156158180ACC vs. Teams Ranked 201-plus (63-6)WinsSchoolRankOpponentDateSiteScore211Nov. 23Neutral211Nov. 25Away211Dec. 30Home214Nov. 17Away215Nov. 21Home216Dec. 5Home220Dec. 7Home223Dec. 5Neutral227Dec. 31Home230Nov. 26Neutral235Nov. 30Home241Nov. 20Neutral243Nov. 14Home245Dec. 30Home250Dec. 15Home251Nov. 16Home252Nov. 16Home254Nov. 14Home256Dec. 6Home258Dec. 15Home264Dec. 29Home270Nov. 25Home273Nov. 23Home273Dec. 20Neutral275Nov. 28Home282Dec. 23Home285Nov. 14Home287Dec. 22Home293Nov. 26Home296Nov. 21Home298Dec. 30Home299Nov. 15Home304Nov. 17Home305Nov. 16Home305Dec. 14Home306Nov. 22Neutral309Dec. 16Away311Nov. 19Home312Dec. 6Home315Nov. 14Home315Dec. 27Home317Dec. 1Home319Nov. 14Home320Nov. 18Home321Nov. 24Home322Nov. 14Home327Nov. 25Home327Dec. 20Home330Nov. 18Home330Dec. 14Home331Nov. 24Home331Dec. 8Home332Nov. 14Home332Dec. 14Home333Nov. 29Home335Dec. 22Home337Nov. 30Home338Nov. 20Home339Dec. 11Home341Nov. 25Home347Nov. 19Home350Nov. 14Home351Nov. 26HomeLossesSchoolRankOpponentDateSiteScore203205206209217250
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NCAA alters tournament selection
INDIANAPOLIS -- The NCAA announced changes Thursday to the way it will select teams for the men's basketball tournament, adding flexibility in hopes of keeping teams properly seeded.The selection committee voted last week to change the bracketing principles in hopes of keeping teams where they naturally belong, Chairman Ron Wellman told reporters. In previous years, the committee has had to move a team up or down one or two lines to accommodate rules such as when conference teams can meet in the tourney.Previously, conference teams couldn't meet until the regional final -- unless a conference had nine teams in the field.The move comes in the wake of realignment that has seen league numbers swell over the past few seasons and has made the old rules difficult to navigate. The Big East, for instance, had 11 teams make the tournament in 2011 and 2012, and with more league expansion, conflicts seemed more likely to pop up.The changes will not affect which teams get into the tourney. But they will allow conference teams that have played only once during the season -- including league tournaments -- to meet as early as the third round (round of 32). Teams that have played twice will not face one another until the regional semifinals and teams that have played three times cannot meet until the regional championship.Most of the conflicts didn't show up until the Sunday of selection weekend, when the bracketing debate is going full bore."It was a real struggle because we feel the seed lines are really important to the competitiveness of the tournament. The committee spends hours scrubbing the seeds," Wellman said. "We compare No. 1 to No. 2, No. 2 to No. 3, so on right through No. 68. At the end of the day, we feel that the seeds are in proper order. ... Then we go to bracketing, and oftentimes we move a team either within the line or we have moved a team two lines a couple of years ago, and a number of teams one line. So there was great discomfort with that."During the call, NCAA spokesman David Worlock noted that in recent years, two teams were dropped two lines -- Marquette in 2007 and Brigham Young in 2012. Wellman also said there was a long debate in the selection room last year regarding Oregon, which wound up with a No. 12 seed and played in one of the First Four games at Dayton, Ohio.The concern is that by moving teams from line to line across the field, it impacts the entire 68-team tournament."The debate was considerable as to what we should do and what was best for not only Oregon but the tournament, and of course the teams that were going to be playing Oregon," Wellman said. "When you move a team off of its seed line, you're not only affecting that team, but you are affecting the team that it plays and the teams that it might eventually play. So it has a tremendous impact."To see how the new guidelines would work, NCAA staffers looked at the last three tourneys and found 90 percent of the moves were eliminated.The biggest fans of the change might be coaches, who expressed their concerns this summer in a meeting between Wellman and representatives of the National Association of Basketball Coaches.What else will be different?Top teams from the same conference could find themselves playing in the same region sooner than in the past.Under the old rules, the committee was barred from placing more than two teams from one conference into the same region unless that league had at least nine teams in the field, and the top three teams from a conference had to go into different regions.Now, committee members will get more flexibility. The top four teams from each conference will be separated by region only if they appear among the top 16 overall seeds, the top four in each region.Committee members also voted to try and avoid nonconference rematches during the First Four and the second round, and agreed to relax the rules if two or more teams from the same conference are among the last four at-large bids. Those last four would meet in the First Four.The committee also discussed imposing a deadline for when information would no longer be considered, a move that likely would lead to playing league championship games earlier in the day or week. That was rejected.The overall goal remains the same: Making the NCAA's marquee championship event even better."We do believe that the seed lines are going to be honored to a greater extent, much greater extent, than they have been in the past," Wellman said. "The coaches and other groups have overwhelmingly supported the concept of honoring seed lines as a priority going forward."NCAA Basketball Conference Tournament Schedule
The NCAA awards 32 automatic bids to the NCAA tournament and 31 of those will be determined through each conference's tournament. The Ivy League does not hold a conference tournament. Its regular-season champion earns the automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
2015 conference tournaments
Conference
Tournament site
Hartford, Conn.
March 12-15
Greensboro, N.C.
March 10-14
Campus sites
March 4, 8 & 14
March 11-15
Campus sites
March 11-14
Campus sites
March 12-14
Conway, SC
March 11-15
Kansas City
March 11-14
March 12-14
Birmingham, Ala.
March 11-14
Campus sites
March 3-10
No conference tournament
Albany, N.Y.
Cleveland, Ohio
March 11-14
Norfolk, Va.
March 9-14
March 11-14
Campus sites
March 5, 8, 11
March 11-14
Campus sites
March 3, 5, 8, 11
March 11-15
Katy, Texas
March 11-14
Asheville, N.C
Sioux Falls, S.D.
March 7-10
New Orleans
March 12-15
March 10-14
March 12-14
March 5-10
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**Big Ten**
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Connecticut
Massachusetts
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MidwestCompton Family Ice Arena & South Bend, Ind.Articles
NortheastVerizon Wireless Arena & Manchester, N.H.Articles
EastDunkin Donuts Center & Providence, R.I.Articles
WestScheels Arena & Fargo, N.D.Articles
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TD Garden (Boston)
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Big Ten | SemifinalsMinnesota 3, Ohio State 0 (OT)Michigan 4, Michigan State 1 (OT)FinalsMinnesota 4, Michigan 2 (OT)Articles |
Hockey East | SemifinalsMass.-Lowell 4, Vermont 1 (OT)Boston University 4, New Hampshire 1 (OT)FinalsBoston University 5, Mass.-Lowell 3 (OT)Articles |
ECAC | SemifinalsHarvard 5, Quinnipiac 2 (OT)Colgate 4, St. Lawrence 3 (OT)FinalsHarvard 4, Colgate 2 (OT)Articles |
NCHC | SemifinalsSt. Cloud State 3, North Dakota 1 (OT)Miami 6, Denver 3 (OT)FinalsDenver 5, North Dakota 1 (OT)Miami 3, St. Cloud State 2 (OT)Articles |
WCHA | SemifinalsMinnesota State 4, Ferris State 0 (OT)Michigan Tech 5, Bowling Green 2 (OT)FinalsMinnesota State 5, Michigan Tech 2 (OT)Articles |
Atlantic Hockey | SemifinalsRIT 2, Canisius 1 (OT)Mercyhurst 4, Robert Morris 3 (OT)FinalsRIT 5, Mercyhurst 1 (OT)Articles |
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The NCAA tournament field is selected and seeded through an objective system of Pairwise Comparisons.
