NCAA Championships Allocation

In October, the NCAA released the list of qualifiers for each qualifying tournament. The full release can be found at the link below, but here is a table with this year’s information.

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Memorandum: 2009 Allocation of Qualifiers

UPDATE: If you look at the comments, you can see that this issue can be contentious as fans of different schools feel like a certain region/conference has too many or too few qualifiers.  To help the readers understand this issue, please see these two documents: Division III Allocation of Qualifiers CHART | Explanation of the Allocation of Qualifiers Chart.  The short version is that the number of qualifiers is determined by a formula taking into acount three years of data encompassing number of All-Americans, number of participants, and number of teams.  This is used to figure out how many qualifiers each school “earns,” and that number is adjusted so no team can “earn” more than 10 qualifiers.  It’s a three year running average, and the way to get more qualifiers is to perform at the NCAA tournament over a period of time.  There has been talk of going to the system now in place in Division 1 that does not use historical data, but until (and if) that happens, this is the current system.