NCAA.com | March 12, 2017 List of automatic qualifiers for the 2017 NCAA tournament West Virginia sealed its spot in the tournament by upsetting Baylor in the Big 12 finals. Share The most direct route to the NCAA tournament is winning a conference tournament. All factors like regular-season record, strength of schedule and the like are thrown out the window. Just run the gauntlet and you're going dancing. Here is the list of each team to clinch an automatic bid: 2017 DIVISION I WOMEN'S BASKETBALL CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS Conference Location * Championship Date Champion America East Portland, Maine March 10 Albany American Athletic Uncasville, Conn. March 6 UConn Atlantic 10 Richmond, Va. March 5 Dayton Atlantic Coast Conway, S.C. March 5 Notre Dame ASUN Highest seeds host March 12 Florida Gulf Coast Big 12 Oklahoma City, Okla. March 6 West Virginia Big East Rosemont, Ill. March 7 Marquette Big Sky Reno, Nev. March 11 Montana State Big South Lynchburg, Va. March 12 UNC Asheville Big Ten Indianapolis March 5 Maryland Big West Anaheim, Calif. March 11 Long Beach State Colonial Athletic Harrisonburg, Va. March 11 Elon Conference USA Birmingham, Ala. March 11 Western Kentucky Horizon League Detroit March 7 Green Bay Ivy League Philadelphia March 12 Penn Metro Atlantic Athletic Albany, N.Y. March 6 Quinnipiac Mid-American Cleveland March 11 Toledo Mid-Eastern Athletic Norfolk, Va. March 11 Hampton Missouri Valley Moline, Ill. March 12 Drake Mountain West Las Vegas March 10 Boise State Northeast Highest seeds host March 12 Robert Morris Ohio Valley Nashville, Tenn. March 4 Belmont Pac-12 Seattle March 5 Stanford Patriot League Highest seeds host March 12 Bucknell Southeastern Greenville, S.C. March 5 South Carolina Southern Asheville, N.C. March 5 Chattanooga Southland Katy, Texas March 12 Central Arkansas Southwestern Athletic Houston March 11 Texas Southern Summit League Sioux Falls, S.D. March 7 Western Illinois Sun Belt New Orleans March 12 Troy West Coast Las Vegas March 7 Gonzaga Western Athletic Las Vegas March 11 New Mexico State * -- Final location only. Nina King to continue as NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Committee chair in 2021-22; Beth Goetz named to chair committee in 2022-23 Duke’s Nina King will continue in her role as chair of the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Committee in 2021-22, while Beth Goetz of Ball State has been named vice chair for the coming season before stepping into the chair position in 2022-23. READ MORE Where the U.S. Olympic women's 3x3 basketball team played in college The four-player roster for the 2020 U.S. Olympic women's 3x3 basketball team featured a player from UConn, one from Notre Dame, one from Washington and another from South Carolina. READ MORE Where the 2021 WNBA All-Stars played college The 2021 WNBA All-Star Game is set for July 14 in Las Vegas. This is the first time the event will happen in the same year as the Summer Olympics — and the U.S. roster is the All-Stars' opponent for the game. READ MORE