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2008 Conference tournaments and automatic bids
There are 31 automatic bids to the 2008 NCAA Tournament. Thirty of those will be determined by conference tournaments while the remaining bid goes to the Ivy League regular-season champion. Here is the list of automatic bids and when they will be determined. Listed in alphabetical order, by conference.
Conference	Tournament site	Dates	Final/Automatic qualifier
ACC	Charlotte, N.C.	March 13-16	North Carolina (32-2)
America East	Binghamton, N.Y.	March 7-9, 15	Maryland-Baltimore County (24-8)
Atlantic Sun	Nashville, Tenn.	March 5-8	Belmont (25-8)
Atlantic 10	Atlantic City, N.J.	March 12-15	Temple (21-12)
Big East	New York	March 12-15	Pittsburgh (26-9)
Big Sky	Campus sites/top seed	March 8, 11-12	Portland State (23-9)
Big South	Campus sites	March 4, 6, 8	Winthrop (22-11)
Big Ten	Indianapolis	March 13-16	Wisconsin (29-4)
Big 12	Kansas City, Mo.	March 13-16	Kansas (31-3)
Big West	Anaheim, Calif.	March 12-15	CS Fullerton (24-8)
Colonial	Richmond, Va.	March 7-10	George Mason (23-10)
Conference USA	Memphis, Tenn.	March 12-15	Memphis (33-1)
Horizon	Campus sites/top seed	March 4, 7-8, 11	Butler (29-3)
Ivy League	No Tournament		Cornell (22-5)
MAAC	Albany, N.Y.	March 6-10	Siena (22-10)
MAC	Cleveland	March 12-15	Kent State (28-6)
MEAC	Raleigh, N.C.	March 10-15	Coppin State (16-20)
Missouri Valley	St. Louis	March 6-9	Drake (28-4)
Mountain West	Las Vegas	March 12-15	UNLV (26-7)
Northeast	Campus sites	March 6, 9, 12	Mount St. Mary's (18-14)
Ohio Valley	Nashville, Tenn.	March 4, 7-8	Austin Peay (24-10)
Pac-10	Los Angeles	March 12-15	UCLA (31-3)
Patriot	Campus sites	March 5, 9, 14	American (21-11)
SEC	Atlanta	March 13-16	Georgia (17-16)
Southern	Charleston, S.C.	March 7-10	Davidson (26-6)
Southland	Katy, Texas	March 13-16	Texas-Arlington (21-11)
Summit	Tulsa, Okla.	March 8-11	Oral Roberts (24-8)
Sun Belt	Mobile, Ala.	March 5, 8-11	Western Kentucky (27-6)
SWAC	Birmingham, Ala.	March 12-15	Mississippi Valley State (18-15)
WAC	Las Cruces, N.M.	March 11, 13-15	Boise State (25-8)
West Coast	San Diego	March 7-10	San Diego (21-13)