The first postseason games of the college basketball season are get underway on Monday with opening-round action in the Northeast Conference Tournament. No. 8 seed Fairleigh Dickinson hosts No. 9 seed Central Connecticut State in a game set for 7 p.m. ET. CCSU and FDU split its regular-season series with Central Connecticut State, winning the first meeting 75-55 at home on Jan. 30 before Fairleigh Dickinson got revenge with a 91-82 overtime win on Feb. 5.
No. 1 seed Bryant is awaiting the winner in Wednesday’s quarterfinal round. If Bryant can parlay its regular season NEC title into a conference tournament championship next Tuesday, it will head to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in program history.
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The first automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament will be decided Saturday when the Ohio Valley Conference crowns its tournament champion. The Missouri Valley Conference and Big South will follow suit on Sunday before the action really heats up next week. But there is plenty of postseason basketball to keep an eye on in the first week of March. The Atlantic Sun, Horizon League and Patriot League all start their league tournaments Tuesday before the Big South and OVC begin their tournaments on Wednesday.
For many who lose, though, their seasons will conclude on the spot. The single-elimination stakes and the fact that the competing teams are often quite familiar with each other — meeting for the third time in many cases — create a cauldron of emotion that produces epic moments. So keep it locked here as we track the 2022 college basketball conference champions on the journey to the NCAA Tournament.
2022 conference tournament schedules
| CONFERENCE | TOURNAMENT SITE | DATES (FINAL TV) | 2022 CHAMPION |
| AAC | Fort Worth, Texas | March 10-13 (ESPN) | |
| ACC | Brooklyn, N.Y. | March 8-12 (ESPN) | |
| America East | Campus sites | March 6, 9 & 12 (ESPN2) | |
| Atlantic 10 | Washington D.C. | March 9-13 (CBSSN) | |
| ASUN | Campus sites | March 1, 3, 5 & 8 (ESPN) | |
| Big East | New York | March 9-12 (Fox) | |
| Big Sky | Boise, Idaho | March 9-12 (ESPNU) | |
| Big South | Charlotte, N.C. | March 2, 4-6 (ESPN2) | |
| Big Ten | Indianapolis | March 9-13 (CBS) | |
| Big 12 | Kansas City | March 9-12 (ESPN) | |
| Big West | Henderson, Nev. | March 8, 10-12 (ESPN2) | |
| Colonial | Washington D.C. | March 5-8 (CBSSN) | |
| Conference USA | Frisco, Texas | March 8-12 (CBSSN) | |
| Horizon League | Indianapolis | March 1, 3, 7 & 8 (ESPN) | |
| Ivy League | Cambridge, Mass. | March 12-13 (ESPN2) | |
| MAAC | Atlantic City, N.J. | March 8-12 (ESPNU) | |
| MAC | Cleveland, Ohio | March 10-12 (ESPN2) | |
| MEAC | Norfolk, Va. | March 9-12 (ESPN2) | |
| Missouri Valley | St. Louis | March 3-6 (CBS) | |
| Mountain West | Las Vegas | March 9-12 (CBS) | |
| Northeast | Campus sites | Feb. 28, March 2, 5 & 8 (TBD) | |
| Ohio Valley | Evansville, Ind. | March 2-5 (ESP2) | |
| Pac-12 | Las Vegas | March 9-12 (Fox) | |
| Patriot | Campus sites | March 1, 3, 6 & 9 (CBSSN) | |
| SEC | Tampa, Fla. | March 9-13 (ESPN) | |
| Southern | Asheville, N.C | March 4-7 (ESPN) | |
| Southland | Katy, Texas | March 9-12 (ESPN2) | |
| Summit | Sioux Falls, S.D. | March 5-8 (ESPN2) | |
| Sun Belt | Pensacola, Fla. | March 3, 5-7 (ESPN2) | |
| SWAC | Birmingham, Ala. | March 9-12 (ESPNU) | |
| WAC | Las Vegas | March 8-12 (ESPNU) | |
| West Coast | Las Vegas | March 3-5 & 7-8 (ESPN) |
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* 52-29-2 Winning Run the Past 60 Days!
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* Winning Runs of 34-18-1 and 52-29-2 this season!