SEC leads 2016 NCAA tournament field with nine bids

The NCAA announced the bracket for the  2016 Division I Women’s Basketball Championship Monday. The organization’s women’s basketball championship committee awarded No. 1 seeds to UConn (32-0), South Carolina (31-1), Notre Dame (31-1) and Baylor (33-1). Each school comes into the tournament having won their respective conference regular season and tournament championships.

Thirty-two conferences were granted automatic bids for the championship and the remaining 32 teams were selected at-large. The SEC leads the field with nine bids. The Big 12 has six. The ACC, the Big Ten and the Pac-12 have five each.

Interactive Bracket

Bids by Conference
*Automatic qualifier

America East (1)
Albany (New York)*

American Athletic (2)
UConn*
South Florida

Atlantic Coast (5)
Florida State
Louisville
Miami (Florida)
Notre Dame*
Syracuse

Atlantic Sun (1)
Jacksonville*

Atlantic-10 (3)
Duquesne
George Washington*
St. Bonaventure

Big East (3)
DePaul
St. John’s (New York)*
Seton Hall

Big Sky (1)
Idaho*

Big South (1)
UNC Asheville*

Big Ten (5)
Indiana
Maryland*
Michigan State
Ohio State
Purdue

Big 12 (6)
Baylor*
Kansas State
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Texas
West Virginia

Big West (1)
Hawaii*

Colonial (1)
James Madison*

Conference USA (1)
Middle Tennessee*

Horizon (1)
Green Bay*

Ivy (2)
Pennsylvania*
Princeton

Metro Atlantic (1)
Iona*

Mid-American (1)
Buffalo*

Mid-Eastern (1)
North Carolina A&T*

Missouri Valley (1)
Missouri State*

Mountain West (1)
Colorado State*

Northeast (1)
Robert Morris*

Ohio Valley (1)
Belmont*

Pac-12 (5)
Arizona State
Oregon State*
Stanford
UCLA
Washington

Patriot (1)
Army West Point*

Southeastern (9)
Auburn
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Mississippi State
Missouri
South Carolina*
Tennessee
Texas A&M

Southern (1)
Chattanooga*

Southland (1)
Central Arkansas*

Southwestern (1)
Alabama State*

Summit (1)
South Dakota State*

Sun Belt (1)
Troy*

West Coast (2)
BYU
San Francisco*

Western Athletic (1)
New Mexico State*