With only one week left to go before March and its inevitable Madness, I think it's a good time to start looking at who's likely in and out of the NCAA Tournament.

I'm going to go through it step by step, so those of you who are well-versed on the process of creating the 65-team field can probably skim over parts you already know.

First, you have to look at your automatic qualifiers. With the addition of the Great West Conference this year, you have 32 conferences. Fortunately, as there is a probationary period before a conference gets an automatic bid, you still only have to worry about 31 teams for the next few years.

The automatic qualifiers are, in all cases but the Ivy League's, determined by the end-of-season c...

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