Posted: Sunday March 12, 2000 01:58 PM

Automatic Bids
School	Conference
Alcorn State	Southwestern Athletic Conference
Campbell	Trans America Athletic Conference
Connecticut	Big East Conference
Dartmouth	Ivy League
Drake	Missouri Valley Conference
Duke	Atlantic Coast Conference
Furman	Southern Conference
Hampton	Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
Holy Cross	Patriot League
Iowa State	Big 12 Conference
Kent	Mid-American Conference
Liberty	Big South Conference
Louisiana Tech	Sun Belt Conference
Montana	Big Sky Conference
Old Dominion	Colonial Athletic Association
Oregon	Pacific-10 Conference
Purdue	Big Ten Conference
Rice	Western Athletic Conference
St. Francis, Pa.	Northeast Conference
St. Peter's	Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference
San Diego	West Coast Conference
Stephen F. Austin	Southland Conference
Tennessee	Southeastern Conference
Tennessee Tech	Ohio Valley Conference
Tulane	Conference USA
UC Santa Barbara	Big West Conference
Vermont	America East Conference
Wisconsin-Green Bay	Midwestern Collegiate
Xavier	Atlantic 10 Conference
Youngstown State	Mid-Continent Conference
Schools that have received automatic bids to the NCAA basketball tournament. All bids are by virtue of conference tournament championships with the exception of Ivy League and Pacific-10 conferences, which do not conduct postseason tournaments. The Mountain West Conference does not receive an automatic bid:.

 

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