College Cup Countdown: Day 2

We are another day closer to the November 9 field selection announcement for the NCAA Women’s Tournament (the Men’s field is announced a week later on Nov. 16). This week the field will be determined in large part through conference tournament play and some final regular season matches in the few conferences that don’t have their own postseason tournaments, such as the Big 10 and Pac 10.

Following is our best overview of who is where in the women's selection process, for both the 30 automatic qualifiers and the 34 at-large berths.

Major Conferences (* = last spot is vulnerable):

Atlantic Coast Conference (7  including 1 automatic) – Boston College, Florida State, North Carolina, Virginia Tech, Maryland, Wake Forest, Virginia

*Atlantic 10 (2 including 1 automatic) – Dayton, Charlotte

Big 12 (3 including 1 automatic) – Texas A&M(w), Missouri, Nebraska

Big East (7 including 1 automatic) – Marquette, St. John's, West Virginia, Connecticut, Notre Dame, Rutgers, Villanova

*Big Ten: (5 including 1 automatic ) – Ohio State, Penn State, Wisconsin, Purdue, Indiana(no conference tourney)

*Colonial Athletic Association (2 including 1 automatic) – Northeastern and the Hofstra-UNC Wilmington winner (Friday in the CAA Tournament)

*Conference USA (2 including 1 automatic) – UCF, Colorado College

*Mountain West (2 including 1 automatic) – BYU, San Diego State

*Pac 10 (7 including 1 automatic) – Stanford, UCLA, Washington State, USC, California, Washington, Oregon State (no conference tourney)

SEC (5 including 1 automatic) – Florida, South Carolina, Georgia, LSU, Mississippi

West Coast Conference (3 including 1 automatic) – Portland, San Diego, Santa Clara (no conference tourney)


Smaller Conferences (should only place one qualifier; regular season leader listed):

America East: Boston University (plays Binghamton in conference tournament final Saturday)

Atlantic Sun: Kennesaw State

Big Sky: Portland State

Big South: Liberty

Big West: Cal Poly

Horizon: Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Ivy: Harvard (no conference tourney)

Metro Atlantic Athletic: Loyola (MD) (already qualified by winning its conference tourney)

Mid-American: Central Michigan

Missouri Valley: Illinois State

Northeast: Central Connecticut State(w)

Ohio Valley: Morehead State

Patriot: Colgate

Southern: UNC Greensboro

Southland: Texas State

SWAC: Jackson State (MS)

The Summit League: South Dakota State

Sun Belt: Florida International

WAC: San Jose State


Teams who could still get in with a good tourney run or other results falling their way:

ACC: Duke (would do well to defeat Virginia Wednesday at the ACC Tournament)

Big East: Georgetown

Big 12: Colorado, Oklahoma State, Kansas, Texas

Big Ten: Michigan State, Minnesota (no conference tourney)

Conference USA: Memphis, UAB

SEC: Auburn, Vanderbilt, Tennessee

WCC: Pepperdine


Any other team that wins its conference tournament, of course, will qualify – likely at the expense of a team in that conference.