March Madness bracket tracker: Full list of automatic bids to 2020 NCAA Tournament

Conference tournaments are under way, and so is the mad scramble for automatic bids in the 2020 NCAA Tournament.

Thirty-two automatic bids are up for grabs in the men’s basketball tournament over the next eight days.

Utah State clinched the first bid in the NCAA Tournament with a 59-56 victory over San Diego State in the Mountain West Conference championship game. Belmont beat Murray State 76-75 in the Ohio Valley Conference championship later Saturday night.

Both games ended in thrilling fashion.

Utah State won on Sam Merill’s go-ahead 3-pointer with 2.5 seconds left.

Belmont won a backdoor layup by Tyler Scanlon, who took a perfect pass from Adam Kunkel for the go-ahead bucket with 3.9 seconds left.

Sporting News will track all of the automatic bids to March Madness below as the bracket starts to fill out. Three more automatic bids will be decided Sunday at the Atlantic Sun, Big South and Missouri Valley conference championship games. Here are the dates and times for Sunday’s games:

The other 36 at-large bids will be unveiled on Selection Sunday.

Here’s a look at the full conference tournament schedule (in alphabetical order). The list below will be updated as teams punch their tickets to March Madness.

MORE: SN’s latest March Madness Field of 68 bracket projections

March Madness bracket 2020: Tracking automatic bids

After Selection Sunday, the First Four games will tip March Madness off in Dayton, Ohio, on March 17 and March 18. The real first round begins after that, on March 19 and 20. The second round follows on March 21 and 22.

Until the final bracket is released, SN will make educated predictions in its “Field of 68” projections.