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Breaking down the selected teams, by conference

Luke Hancock

Louisville’s Luke Hancock (11) and teammates celebrate late in the second half of an NCAA college basketball championship game against Syracuse at the Big East Conference tournament, Saturday, March 16, 2013, in New York. Louisville won 78-61. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

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One of the most popular measurements of conference dominance by fans and pundits alike has always been the number of teams that a league gets into the NCAA Tournament.

Two years ago, the Big East Conference got a record 11 teams into the Big Dance. This season, the Big East led the tournament again with eight, followed by a number of other power conferences and a somewhat surprising conference getting in five.

Here’s how the conference’s stacked up this season (along with the seeds in parentheses).

Big East – 8 – Louisville (1), Georgetown (2), Marquette (3), Syracuse (4), Notre Dame(7), Pittsburgh (8), Villanova (9), Cincinnati (10).

Big Ten – 7 – Indiana (1), Ohio State (2), Michigan State (3), Michigan (4), Wisconsin (5), Illinois (7), Minnesota (11).

Atlantic 10 – 5 – St. Louis (4), VCU (5), Bulter (6), Temple (9), La Salle (13)

Big 12 – 5 – Kansas (1), Kansas State (4), Oklahoma (5), Iowa State (10), Oklahoma (10)

Mountain West – 5 – New Mexico (3), Colorado State (8), UNLV (5), San Diego State (13), Boise State (11)

Pac-12 – 5 – Arizona (6), UCLA (6), Colorado (10), California (12), Oregon (12).

ACC – 4 – Miami (2), Duke (2), North Carolina (8), North Carolina State (8)

SEC – 3 – Florida (3), Missouri (9), Ole Miss (12)

Missouri Valley – 2 – Creighton (7), Wichita State (9)

Sun Belt – 2 – Middle Tennessee State (11), Western Kentucky (16)

WCC – 2 – Gonzaga (1), St. Mary’s (11)

Single-bid conferences

WAC -- 1 -- New Mexico State (13); SWAC – 1 – Southern (16); MEAC -- 1 – North Carolina A&T (16); SoCon – 1 – Davidson (14); Big South – 1 – Liberty (16); Big West – 1 – Pacific (15); Southland – 1 – Northwestern State (14); Conference USA – 1 – Memphis (6); Northeast – 1 – LIU-Brooklyn (16); CAA – 1 – James Madison (16); MAC – 1 – Akron (12); Ohio Valley -- 1 -- Belmont (11); Atlantic Sun – 1 — Florida Gulf Coast (15); Ivy League – 1 – Harvard (14); MAAC – 1 – Iona (15); Patriot – 1 – Bucknell (11); Summit – 1 – South Dakota State (13); Horizon – 1 – Valparaiso (14); America East – 1 Albany (15); Big Sky -- 1 -- Montana (13).

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