Updated Conference List for 2013-14: Latest is Loyola-Chicago to Missouri Valley

[SelectionSunday]

Though not yet confirmed, with the addition of the American Athletic Conference (formerly the Big East) it is assumed there will be 32 automatic bids in 2013-14. That would mean one less at-large bid (36) next season.

America East (9)
1. Albany
2. Binghamton
3. Hartford
4. Maine
5. Maryland-Baltimore County
6. Massachusetts-Lowell (new to D-I; ineligible for conference & NCAA tourneys)
7. New Hampshire
8. Stony Brook
9. Vermont

American Athletic (10)
1. Central Florida (from Conference USA)
2. Cincinnati
3. Connecticut
4. Houston (from Conference USA)
5. Louisville
6. Memphis (from Conference USA)
7. Rutgers
8. South Florida
9. SMU (from Conference USA)
10. Temple (from Atlantic 10)

ACC (15)
1. Boston College
2. Clemson
3. Duke
4. Florida State
5. Georgia Tech
6. Maryland
7. Miami-Florida
8. North Carolina
9. Notre Dame (from Big East)
10. NC State
11. Pitt (from Big East)
12. Syracuse (from Big East)
13. Virginia
14. Virginia Tech
15. Wake Forest

Atlantic Sun (10)
1. East Tennessee State
2. Florida Gulf Coast
3. Jacksonville
4. Kennesaw State
5. Lipscomb
6. Mercer
7. North Florida
8. Northern Kentucky (ineligible for conference & NCAA tourneys)
9. South Carolina-Upstate
10. Stetson

Atlantic 10 (13)
1. Dayton
2. Duquesne
3. Fordham
4. George Mason (from Colonial)
5. George Washington
6. La Salle
7. Massachusetts
8. Rhode Island
9. Richmond
10. Saint Bonaventure
11. Saint Joseph’s
12. Saint Louis
13. VCU

Big East (10)
1. Butler (from Atlantic 10)
2. Creighton (from Missouri Valley)
3. DePaul
4. Georgetown
5. Marquette
6. Providence
7. Saint John’s
8. Seton Hall
9. Villanova
10. Xavier (from Atlantic 10)

Big Sky (11)
1. Eastern Washington
2. Idaho State
3. Montana
4. Montana State
5. North Dakota
6. Northern Arizona
7. Northern Colorado
8. Portland State
9. Sacramento State
10. Southern Utah
11. Weber State

Big South (12)
North
1. Campbell
2. High Point
3. Liberty
4. Longwood
5. Radford
6. VMI
South
1. Charleston Southern
2. Coastal Carolina
3. Gardner-Webb
4. North Carolina-Asheville
5. Presbyterian
6. Winthrop

Big 10 (12)
1. Illinois
2. Indiana
3. Iowa
4. Michigan
5. Michigan State
6. Minnesota
7. Nebraska
8. Northwestern
9. Ohio State
10. Penn State
11. Purdue
12. Wisconsin

Big 12 (10)
1. Baylor
2. Iowa State
3. Kansas
4. Kansas State
5. Oklahoma
6. Oklahoma State
7. Texas
8. TCU
9. Texas Tech
10. West Virginia

Big West (9)
1. Cal-Davis
2. Cal-Irvine
3. Cal Poly
4. Cal-Riverside
5. Cal-Santa Barbara
6. Cal State-Fullerton
7. Cal State-Northridge
8. Hawaii
9. Long Beach State

Colonial (9)
1. College of Charleston (from Southern)
2. Delaware
3. Drexel
4. Hofstra
5. James Madison
6. North Carolina-Wilmington
7. Northeastern
8. Towson
9. William & Mary

Conference USA (16)
1. Alabama-Birmingham
2. Charlotte (from Atlantic 10)
3. East Carolina
4. Florida Atlantic (from Sun Belt)
5. Florida International (from Sun Belt)
6. Louisiana Tech (from WAC)
7. Marshall
8. Middle Tennessee State (from Sun Belt)
9. North Texas (from Sun Belt)
10. Old Dominion (from Colonial)
11. Rice
12. Southern Miss
13. Texas-El Paso
14. Texas-San Antonio (from WAC)
15. Tulane
16. Tulsa

Horizon (8)
1. Cleveland State
2. Detroit
3. Green Bay
4. Illinois-Chicago
5. Milwaukee
6. Valparaiso
7. Wright State
8. Youngstown State

Ivy (8)
1. Brown
2. Columbia
3. Cornell
4. Dartmouth
5. Harvard
6. Penn
7. Princeton
8. Yale

Metro Atlantic (11)
1. Canisius
2. Fairfield
3. Iona
4. Manhattan
5. Marist
6. Monmouth (from Northeast)
7. Niagara
8. Quinnipiac (from Northeast)
9. Rider
10. Saint Peter’s
11. Siena

MAC (12)
East
1. Akron
2. Bowling Green
3. Buffalo
4. Kent State
5. Miami-Ohio
6. Ohio
West
1. Ball State
2. Central Michigan
3. Eastern Michigan
4. Northern Illinois
5. Toledo
6. Western Michigan

MEAC (13)
1. Bethune-Cookman
2. Coppin State
3. Delaware State
4. Florida A&M
5. Hampton
6. Howard
7. Maryland-Eastern Shore
8. Morgan State
9. Norfolk State
10. North Carolina A&T
11. North Carolina Central
12. Savannah State
13. South Carolina State

Missouri Valley (10)
1. Bradley
2. Drake
3. Evansville
4. Illinois State
5. Indiana State
6. Loyola-Chicago (from Horizon)
7. Missouri State
8. Northern Iowa
9. Southern Illinois
10. Wichita State

Mountain West (11)
1. Air Force
2. Boise State
3. Colorado State
4. Fresno State
5. Nevada
6. Nevada-Las Vegas
7. New Mexico
8. San Diego State
9. San Jose State (from WAC)
10. Utah State (from WAC)
11. Wyoming

Northeast (10)
1. Bryant
2. Central Connecticut
3. Fairleigh Dickinson
4. Long Island
5. Mount Saint Mary’s
6. Robert Morris
7. Sacred Heart
8. Saint Francis-NY
9. Saint Francis-PA
10. Wagner

Ohio Valley (12)
East
1. Belmont
2. Eastern Kentucky
3. Jacksonville State
4. Morehead State
5. Tennessee State
6. Tennessee Tech
West
1. Austin Peay
2. Eastern Illinois
3. Murray State
4. Southeast Missouri State
5. Southern Illinois-Edwardsville
6. Tennessee-Martin

Pac 12 (12)
1. Arizona
2. Arizona State
3. Cal
4. Colorado
5. Oregon
6. Oregon State
7. Stanford
8. UCLA
9. USC
10. Utah
11. Washington
12. Washington State

Patriot (10)
1. American
2. Army
3. Boston U (from America East)
4. Bucknell
5. Colgate
6. Holy Cross
7. Lafayette
8. Lehigh
9. Loyola-Maryland (from Metro Atlantic)
10. Navy

SEC (14)
1. Alabama
2. Arkansas
3. Auburn
4. Florida
5. Georgia
6. Kentucky
7. LSU
8. Mississippi State
9. Missouri
10. Ole Miss
11. South Carolina
12. Tennessee
13. Texas A&M
14. Vanderbilt

Southern (11)
1. Appalachian State
2. Chattanooga
3. Citadel
4. Davidson
5. Elon
6. Furman
7. Georgia Southern
8. North Carolina-Greensboro
9. Samford
10. Western Carolina
11. Wofford

Southland (14)
1. Abilene Christian (new to D-I; ineligible for conference & NCAA tourneys)
2. Central Arkansas
3. Houston Baptist (from Great West)
4. Incarnate Word (new to D-I; ineligible for conference & NCAA tourneys)
5. Lamar
6. McNeese State
7. New Orleans (from Independent)
8. Nicholls State
9. Northwestern State
10. Oral Roberts
11. Sam Houston State
12. Southeastern Louisiana
13. Stephen F. Austin
14. Texas A&M-Corpus Christi

SWAC (10)
1. Alabama A&M
2. Alabama State
3. Alcorn State
4. Arkansas-Pine Bluff
5. Grambling
6. Jackson State
7. Mississippi Valley State
8. Prairie View A&M
9. Southern U
10. Texas Southern

Summit (9)
1. Denver (from WAC)
2. Fort Wayne
3. IUPUI
4. North Dakota State
5. Oakland
6. Omaha (ineligible for conference & NCAA tourneys)
7. South Dakota
8. South Dakota State
9. Western Illinois

Sun Belt (10)
1. Arkansas-Little Rock
2. Arkansas State
3. Georgia State (from Colonial)
4. Louisiana
5. Louisiana-Monroe
6. South Alabama
7. Texas-Arlington (from WAC)
8. Texas State (from WAC)
9. Troy
10. Western Kentucky

West Coast (10)
1. Brigham Young
2. Gonzaga
3. Loyola Marymount
4. Pacific (from Big West)
5. Pepperdine
6. Portland
7. Saint Mary’s
8. San Diego
9. San Francisco
10. Santa Clara

WAC (9)
1. Cal State-Bakersfield (from Independent)
2. Chicago State (from Great West)
3. Grand Canyon (new to D-I; ineligible for conference & NCAA tourneys)
4. Idaho
5. Kansas City (from Summit)
6. New Mexico State
7. Seattle
8. Texas-Pan American (from Great West)
9. Utah Valley (from Great West)

Independent (1)
1. NJIT (from Great West)

There will be 351 teams in 2013-14, at least 6 of which will be ineligible for the NCAA Tournament.

 

[Pewterschmidt]

I love the chase. Conf USA teams to Big East. Sun Belt teams to Conf USA. Big East teams leave for better conferences. More Conf USA teams to Big East. More Sun Belt teams to Conf USA.

The American Association is the new Conf USA. Conf USA is the new Sun Belt. Sun Belt now a hodge podge of crap.

 

[SelectionSunday]

That's a good summation, Pewter.

And I don't know what to make of the WAC. With Utah State off to the Mountain West, New Mexico State should win the WAC's auto bid about every single season. Of course, that's assuming NMSU stays put.

I do think the Big East made a solid recovery adding Butler, Creighton, and Xaiver, and eventually Dayton and Saint Louis. It'll never be the same without Syracuse (and to a much lesser extent Pitt), obviously, but it'll still be a good basketball conference. I like that they were able to re-up with Madison Square Garden. ... that was important.

The names won't all be the same, and it will take some getting used to. I'd say it's especially important for the Big East that Saint John's pick it up. The new Big East needs a strong New York program, not just a so-so one.

 

[adchester]

It's crazy how Conference USA has just been decimated. 8 years ago they had Cincy, Depaul, Louisville, Marquette, South Florida and Saint Louis. Now it's basically the Sun Belt.

 

[mplarson7]

So...the old Big East is now AA?

 

[husker70]

Gotta love those Loyola Ramblers. 1963 NCAA Basketball Champs. Only team from Illinois to win The Championship. Perfect fit for the Missouri Valley. To have had the chance to not only see them, but hear the radio broadcast with the legendary Red Rush for Gonnella Bread. He was part carnival barker, homer, and the uncanny ability to work Gonnella into the broadcast. Harkness to Rouse and he suffed that ball, just like you stuff a loaf of gonnella bread in your shopping cart.

 

[SelectionSunday]

So...the old Big East is now AA?

Yes.

 

[SelectionSunday]

Gotta love those Loyola Ramblers. 1963 NCAA Basketball Champs. Only team from Illinois to win The Championship. Perfect fit for the Missouri Valley. To have had the chance to not only see them, but hear the radio broadcast with the legendary Red Rush for Gonnella Bread. He was part carnival barker, homer, and the uncanny ability to work Gonnella into the broadcast. Harkness to Rouse and he suffed that ball, just like you stuff a loaf of gonnella bread in your shopping cart.

As a (grade-school) kid I grew up listening to some great DePaul teams on the radio. I seem to remember a lot of Gonnella bread ads on DePaul's broadcasts, too. Joe Ponsetto, Gary Garland, Curtis Watkins, Dave Corzine (and Gonnella bread). ... wonderful memories.

 

[From the Barn]

The Big East didn't make any recovery. It was gutted to the point of losing its name.

The new Big East is a new and separate entity,

 

[SelectionSunday]

NY Times story on the Big East

Here's an excellent NY Times story on the Big East as we'll want to remember it. It was a wonderful trip down memory lane, even for a Big 10 guy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/s...-block-remains-fresh.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

 

[Go4]

it feels like half these teams upgraded in brand name of a conf, but at the end of the day, most conferences have the same type of teams in them. very few programs actually upgraded their competition, just a new name and branding.

ss, i hope you'll do the schedule analysis of each team again this offseason. i imagine it was a lot of work, but i looked forward to the daily updates of schedules as they became available.

 

[SelectionSunday]

Already working on it, Go4. Not sure how much time will allow, but will do what I can.