What a phenomenal Saturday of college basketball. The focus of the world was on the dramatics of games in Chapel Hill, Louisville, Norman and Bloomington, among others, but the Circle of March was instead tuned into the eight conference tournaments that were under way and the number of other leagues that eliminated schools from our eligibility list by virtue of the season ending. As a result, a whopping 39 schools dropped off of the CoM in the last 24 hours, leaving us with a total of 237 eligibles heading into the heart of Championship Fortnight. By this point next week, we’ll be down to around 80 or so. Congratulations are due to Belmont, the first automatic qualifier of the year as the OVC champion; the second qualifier from the Missouri Valley will solve for its representative later today at Arch Madness.
- Arkansas State
- Brown
- Bryant
- Cal State Fullerton
- Canisius
- Chattanooga
- Cleveland State
- College of Charleston
- Columbia
- Cornell
- Dartmouth
- Delaware
- Denver
- East Tennessee State
- Elon
- Florida Atlantic
- Gardner-Webb
- Idaho State
- Illinois-Chicago
- James Madison
- Longwood
- Loyola (Chicago)
- Marist
- Montana State
- North Dakota
- Pennsylvania
- Princeton
- Rider
- Saint Mary’s
- San Diego
- San Francisco
- Santa Clara
- Siena
- Southern Utah
- Sain Francis (PA)
- Troy
- UNC-Greensboro
- VMI
- Western Illinois