College Basketball: 2012-13 NCAA Tournament Projections

The first college basketball games of the NCAA Tournament are more than four months from the start of the season, which begins Nov. 9, but it's never too early to start projections for March Madness.

Here is our best guess of how the field might appear Tournament play begins on March 19 with the First Four in Dayton.

SEED	MIDWEST	EAST	SOUTH	WEST
1	Indiana	Louisville	Kentucky	Kansas
2	Ohio State	Arizona	Michigan	Syracuse
3	Duke	Michigan State	NC State	UCLA
4	Missouri	San Diego State	North Carolina	UNLV
5	Baylor	Memphis	Notre Dame	Florida
6	Tennessee	Florida State	Marquette	Creighton
7	VCU	Cincinnati	Georgia	Minnesota
8	Kansas State	Texas	Oklahoma State	Wisconsin
9	BYU	Saint Mary's	Cal	Saint Louis
10	Pittsburgh	West Virginia	Georgetown	USF
11	Colorado State	New Mexico	Wichita State	Temple
12	Stanford/Marshall	Miami/Arkansas	Drexel	Harvard
13	Davidson	Utah State	Ohio	Murray State
14	Middle Tennessee	Valparaiso	Lehigh	Long Beach State
15	Oral Roberts	LIU-Brooklyn	South Dakota State	Montana
16	Savannah State	Vermont	Charleston Southern/	Loyola (Md.)/
			Southern	Mercer

NCAA Tournament bids by conference

Big East (8): Cincinnati, Georgetown, Louisville, Marquette, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, USF
Big 12 (6): Baylor, Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, Texas, West Virginia
Big Ten (6): Indiana, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Ohio State, Wisconsin
ACC (5): Duke, Florida State, Miami, NC State, North Carolina
SEC (5): Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee
Mountain West (4): Colorado State, New Mexico, San Diego State, UNLV
Pac-12 (4): Arizona, Cal, Stanford, UCLA
Atlantic 10 (3): Saint Louis, Temple, VCU
West Coast (3): BYU, Gonzaga, Saint Mary's
Conference USA (2): Marshall, Memphis
Missouri Valley (2): Creighton, Wichita State
America East: Vermont
Atlantic Sun: Mercer
Big Sky: Montana
Big South: Charleston Southern
Big West: Long Beach State
Colonial: Drexel
Horizon: Valparaiso
Ivy: Harvard
MAAC: Loyola (Md.)
MAC: Ohio
MEAC: Savannah State
Northeast: LIU-Brooklyn
Ohio Valley: Murray State
Patriot: Lehigh
Southern: Davidson
Southland: Oral Roberts
Summit: South Dakota State
Sun Belt: Middle Tennessee
SWAC: Southern
WAC: Utah State