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Conference Tourney Central: Dates, sites & automatic bid winners

Published Mar. 15, 2015 8:39 p.m. ET

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Some sports fans will argue this is the best time of the year.

For some, dreams become reality.

For others, goals are dashed.

For the fans, it's a smorgasbord of college hoops unrivaled by any other sport.

Thirty-two automatic bids to the NCAA tournament are up for grabs.

While the Ivy League doesn't hold a postseason tournament as it awards the regular-season champ an automatic bid, the 31 other Division I conferences send their teams to battle in single-elimination extravaganzas in arenas from Hartford, Conn., to Las Vegas.

Five conferences — the AAC, A-10, Big Ten, SEC and Sun Belt — held title games on Sunday, leading into the official Selection Sunday announcement of all 68 teams invited to the Big Dance.

Below is the complete list of conference tournaments — and the Ivy League champ-* (Harvard beat Yale 53-51 in a tiebreaker game on Saturday, March 14 at Penn). Try not to have too much fun.

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Conference	Site	Dates	Winner
American Athletic	Hartford, Conn.	March 12-15	SMU
ACC	Greensboro, NC	March 10-14	Notre Dame
America East	Campus sites	March 4, 8, 14	Albany
Atlantic 10	Brooklyn, NY	March 11-15	VCU
Atlantic Sun	Campus sites	March 3, 5, 8	North Florida
Big East	New York	March 11-14	Villanova
Big Sky	Reg.-season champ	March 12-14	Eastern Washington
Big South	Conway, SC	March 4-8	Coastal Carolina
Big Ten	Chicago	March 11-15	Wisconsin
Big 12	Kansas City, Mo.	March 11-14	Iowa State
Big West	Anaheim, Calif.	March 12-14	UC Irvine
Colonial	Baltimore	March 6-9	Northeastern
Conference USA	Birmingham, Ala.	March 11-14	UAB
Horizon	Campus sites	March 3, 6, 7, 10	Valparaiso
Ivy	No tournament	March 14-*	Harvard
MAAC	Albany, NY	March 5-9	Manhattan
MAC	Cleveland	March 11-14	Buffalo
MEAC	Norfolk, Va.	March 9-14	Hampton
Missouri Valley	St. Louis	March 5-8	Northern Iowa
Mountain West	Las Vegas	March 11-14	Wyoming
Northeast	Campus sites	March 4, 7, 10	Robert Morris
Ohio Valley	Nashville, Tenn.	March 4-7	Belmont
Pac-12	Las Vegas	March 11-14	Arizona
Patriot	Campus sites	March 3, 5, 8, 11	Lafayette
SEC	Nashville, Tenn.	March 11-15	Kentucky
Southern	Asheville, NC	March 6-9	Wofford
Southland	Katy, Texas	March 11-14	Stephen F. Austin
Summit	Sioux Falls, SD	March 7-10	North Dakota State
Sun Belt	New Orleans	March 12-15	Georgia State
SWAC	Houston	March 10-14	Texas Southern
WAC	Las Vegas	March 11-14	New Mexico State
West Coast	Las Vegas	March 6-10	Gonzaga

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