NCAA basketball automatic bids

3/9/2005

Schools that have clinched automatic bids to the NCAA men's basketball tournament, which begins next week:

●Central Florida, Atlantic Sun Conference

●Chattanooga, Southern Conference

●Creighton, Missouri Valley Conference

●Eastern Kentucky, Ohio Valley Conference

●Gonzaga, West Coast Conference

●Louisiana-Lafayette, Sun Belt Conference

●Niagara, Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference

●Oakland, Michigan, Mid-Continent Conference

●Old Dominion, Colonial Athletic Association

●Pennsylvania, Ivy League

●Winthrop, Big South Conference

●Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Horizon League