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ESPN, which lost the rights to broadcast early round games in the NCAA basketball tournament, announced that it will televise a six-conference playoff that will determine three of the NCAA’s automatic berths.
July 3, 1990
* America East Conference (1): Albany. * Atlantic 10 Conference (2): George Washington, Xavier. * Atlantic Coast Conference (7): Boston College, Duke, Georgia Tech, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia, Virginia Tech. * Atlantic Sun Conference (1): Belmont. * Big East Conference (6): Georgetown, Louisville, Marquette, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, Villanova. * Big Sky Conference (1): Weber State. * Big South Conference (1): Winthrop. * Big Ten Conference (6): Illinois, Indiana, Michigan St., Ohio State, Purdue, Wisconsin. * Big 12 Conference (4): Kansas, Texas, Texas A&M;, Texas Tech. * Big West Conference (1): Long Beach State. * Colonial Athletic Assn. (2): Old Dominion, Virginia Commonwealth. * Conference USA (1): Memphis. * Horizon League (2): Butler, Wright State. * Ivy League (1): Pennsylvania. * Metro Atlantic Athletic Conf. (1): Niagara. * Mid-American Conference (1): Miami (Ohio). * Mid-Continent Conference (1): Oral Roberts. * Mid-Eastern Athletic Conf. (1): Florida A&M.; * Missouri Valley Conference. (2): Creighton, Southern Illinois. * Mountain West Conference (2): BYU, UNLV. * Northeast Conf. (1): Central Conn.
March 12, 2007
ESPN, which lost the rights to broadcast games in the early rounds of the NCAA basketball tournament, today announced it will televise a six-conference playoff that will determine three of the NCCA’s automatic berths.
July 2, 1990
Officials with Mississippi’s three Southwestern Athletic Conference schools are reacting angrily to members of the other predominantly black Division I conference who voted for Proposition 42.
Jan. 18, 1989
Blacks make up 85% of freshmen football players who will be ineligible to play this fall because of the NCAA’s Proposition 48 academic regulations, the Dallas Times Herald reported.
Aug. 25, 1986
Schools that have received automatic bids to NCAA tournament.
March 7, 1999
Schools that have gained NCAA men’s tournament automatic bids by virtue of conference tournament championships, with exception of the Ivy League and Pacific 10--the only conferences that don’t conduct tournaments.
March 11, 2001
Zion Williamson had 21 points to cap a dominating three-game show at the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament, helping fifth-ranked Duke beat No. 12 Florida State 73-63 on Saturday night in the championship game.
March 16, 2019
Schools that have received automatic bids to the NCAA basketball tournament.
March 15, 1992
Tulsa ended a decade of frustration in the Missouri Valley Conference tournament Monday night in St.
March 5, 1996