NCAA tournament automatic bids: Teams who have played their way into March Madness

UNDATED (AP) - The first 13 teams have played their way into the NCAA men's basketball tournament.

Bucknell has earned its second NCAA tournament berth in three seasons by winning the Patriot League tourney. Mike Muscala scored six of his 20 points during a 10-2 run that gave the Bison a 51-40 lead with 3:52 left in a 64-56 win over Lafayette.

-- Nate Wolters scored 27 points and South Dakota State won the Summit League tourney by downing North Dakota State 73-67. Wolters also had five rebounds and six assists to help the Jackrabbits win the tournament for the second straight year.

-- Valparaiso is the Horizon League champion after closing on an 18-4 run to beat Wright State 62-54. Erik Buggs scored a career-high 22 points and Will Bogan added 14 as the Crusaders earned their first NCAA tournament berth in nine years.

-- LIU Brooklyn has become the first team to win three straight Northeast Conference tournament titles. C.J. Garner scored a career-high 31 points and the Blackbirds earned an automatic berth in the NCAA tourney by beating Mount St. Mary's 91-70.

-- Top-ranked Gonzaga already was a lock to make the NCAA tournament before taking on St. Mary's in the West Coast Conference title game. The Bulldogs likely solidified a No. 1 seed in the tournament by downing the Gaels 65-51.

-- Davidson won the Southern Conference championship for the second straight year with a wire-to-wire 74-55 win over College of Charleston. De'Mon Brooks had 24 points and eight rebounds, while teammate JP Kuhlman added 14 points for the Wildcats.

-- Western Kentucky earned its second straight Sun Belt Conference championship as George Fant had 17 points and 13 rebounds in a 65-63 victory over Florida International. The Hilltoppers trailed by eight in the first half before reaching the NCAA tournament for the fourth time in six seasons.

-- A.J. Davis poured in 26 points and James Madison rode an early 23-1 spurt to a 70-57 win over Northeastern in the Colonial Athletic Association title game. Rayshawn Goins added 14 points and 13 rebounds for the third-seeded Dukes, who are headed to the NCAA tourney for the first time since 1994.

-- Iona was a 60-57 winner over Manhattan in the MAAC title game. Tre Bowman finished with 20 points and Lamont Jones added 14 for the Gaels, who made the NCAA tourney as an at-large bid last season.

-- Jahenns Manigat scored a season-best 16 points and hit a layup with 11 seconds to go that gave top-seeded Creighton just enough to beat Wichita State 68-65 for its second straight Missouri Valley Conference tournament title.

-- Liberty is in the NCAA basketball tournament despite a 15-20 record. The Flames beat Charleston Southern 87-76 in the final of the Big South tournament to claim the conference's automatic bid. Liberty will make its first NCAA tourney appearance since 2004.

-- Laurent Rivard scored 17 points and Siyani Chambers added 16 as Harvard beat Cornell 65-56 and won its third straight Ivy League title. The Crimson clinched a share of the conference championship with their victory, then claimed it outright when Brown beat Princeton 80-67 about a half-hour later.

The Ivy League is the only conference that awards its automatic NCAA tournament berth to the regular-season champion.

--  Brett Comer scored 21 points and Florida Gulf Coast claimed the first NCAA tournament berth in school history by knocking off top-seeded Mercer 88-75 in the Atlantic Sun championship game.

-- Kerron Johnson hit a 10-foot pull-up jumper with 1.2 seconds left, and Belmont capped its first season in the Ohio Valley Conference by beating league power Murray State 70-68 in overtime Saturday night for the tournament championship.