


Sunday's conference tournament championships Here is the full rundown of who secured automatic bids to the NCAA Tournament by winning their conference tournament. The two weeks leading up to Selection Sunday brought 32 conference tournaments that produced results ranging from predictable to entirely unexpected. With an elite defense and wins over the likes of Pittsburgh and Vanderbilt on its résumé, VCU will be a tough draw in the NCAA Tournament.įrom a power conference standpoint on Sunday, Alabama won the SEC Tournament, Purdue won the Big Ten Tournament and Memphis upended No. The Rams trailed 36-30 at halftime, but held Dayton to just 20% shooting in the second half as the Flyers missed their final 15 shots from the floor. VCU is going dancing for the the second time in the past three seasons ,and for the third time under sixth-year coach Mike Rhoades, after beating Dayton 68-56 to win the Atlantic 10 Tournament. Princeton is an elite rebounding team, and at 6-foot-7, Evbuomwan could be a matchup problem in the Big Dance. Tosan Evbuomwan led the Tigers with 21 points in a revenge game for a pair of regular-season losses to the Bulldogs.

Princeton secured its first NCAA Tournament bid since 2017 by beating Yale 74-65 to win the Ivy League Tournament. Five conferences still needed to crown a tournament champion entering the day, and those results helped shape the final spots for the Big Dance. Selection Sunday in college basketball is mostly about revealing the 68-team bracket for the NCAA Tournament, but there was some unfinished business to take care of on the court first.
