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Mid-Major Regular Season Conference Championship Tracker

Who’s earning the regular season hardware?

NCAA Basketball: Belmont at Florida Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports

We’re coming down to the wire in the 2016-17 college basketball regular season, and teams are starting to wrap up their league championships. While the real prize is earned in the conference tournament, these titles still hold meaning. First off, a regular season championship means the No. 1 seed, and presumably the easiest road, in the conference tournament. It also means an automatic NIT bid in the event that the champ is upset in March.

Here’s where each mid-major conference stands in awarding a championship:

America East:

CONFERENCE CHAMPION: VERMONT

Atlantic 10:

CONFERENCE CHAMPION: DAYTON

Atlantic Sun:

CONFERENCE CHAMPION: FLORIDA GULF COAST

Big Sky:

CONFERENCE CHAMPION: NORTH DAKOTA

Big South:

CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS: WINTHROP, UNC ASHEVILLE*

* Winthrop owns the tiebreaker and will be the 1 seed in the conference tournament

Big West:

CONFERENCE CHAMPION: UC IRVINE

Colonial:

CONFERENCE CHAMPION: UNC WILMINGTON

Conference USA:

CONFERENCE CHAMPION: MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE

Horizon:

CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS: OAKLAND, VALPARAISO*

* Oakland owns the tiebreaker and will be the 1 seed in the conference tournament.

Ivy:

CONFERENCE CHAMPION: PRINCETON

MAAC:

CONFERENCE CHAMPION: MONMOUTH

MAC:

CONFERENCE CHAMPION: AKRON

MEAC:

CONFERENCE CHAMPION: NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL

MVC:

CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS: ILLINOIS STATE, WICHITA STATE*

* Illinois State earned the 1 seed in the MVC Tournament by finishing the regular season with the higher RPI.

Mountain West:

CONFERENCE CHAMPION: NEVADA

Northeast:

CONFERENCE CHAMPION: MOUNT ST. MARY’S

Ohio Valley:

CONFERENCE CHAMPION: BELMONT

Patriot:

CONFERENCE CHAMPION: BUCKNELL

Southern:

CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS: UNC GREENSBORO, FURMAN, EAST TENNESSEE STATE*

* UNC Greensboro earned the 1 seed in the SoCon Tournament via tiebreakers. Furman will be the 2 seed and ETSU will be the 3 seed.

Southland:

CONFERENCE CHAMPION: NEW ORLEANS

SWAC:

Season ends March 4
CONFERENCE CHAMPION: TEXAS SOUTHERN

Summit:

CONFERENCE CHAMPION: SOUTH DAKOTA

Sun Belt:

CONFERENCE CHAMPION: UT ARLINGTON

West Coast:

CONFERENCE CHAMPION: GONZAGA

WAC:

CONFERENCE CHAMPION: CSU BAKERSFIELD