UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Here is a 'scorecard' by conference for 1992. This has been constructed using regional results supplied by Craig Gowans that filled in a gap in my records.
The reason I first assembled a histogram like this was that regional play is a source of inter-conference and inter-region games unaffected by the vagaries of early-season matchups (some teams have been playing longer than others) and mid-week games. They offer an indicator of the actual strength of the conferences as measured on the field at the end of the season, and could affect how the NCAA views future seedings. There have been years where a lame showing in the regionals seemed to result in one less bid the next year, and vice versa.
Here is the 'histogram' of the success rate for the 1992 NCAA regionals.
------ wins ------ Conference Number 0 1 2 -3+ champ my comments ========== ====== === === === === ===== ----------------- Six-Pac 5 2 1 1 1 half good, half bad SEC 5 1 1 3 . . marginal ACC 4 . 2 1 . 1 FSU now in ACC Big-West 3 1 . 1 . 1 . SWC 2 . . . 1 1 strong Big-8 2 . . . 1 1 strong Mo-Valley 2 . 1 . . 1 . ind(CSN,Miami) 2 . 1 . . 1 . Big-10 2 . . 1 1- . . Metro 2 . 1 . 1 . misses FSU Trans America 2 1 1 . . . . Sun Belt 2 2 . . . . wasted bids Southland 2 2 . . . . wasted bids East Coast 2 2 wasted bids West Coast 1 . . . . 1 . WAC 1 . . . 1 . . Midwest Coll. 1 . . . 1 . . Southern 1 . . . 1 . . Pac-10 N 1 . . 1 . . . MAC 1 1 Big-East 1 . 1 . . . . Colonial 1 . 1 . . . . ECAC 1 . 1 . . . . EIBL 1 1 Atlantic 10 1 1 . . . . . Big South 0 -left out Ohio Valley 0 -left out Great Midwest 0 -left out Mid-Continent 0 -left out MEAC 0 -left out SWAC 0 -left out Note: 2nd place team goes in the -3+ column even if they have only 2 wins (rare case when "5 teams left" situation takes place, annotated) or 4 wins (forced extra game).
Play-in series started in 1994.
There were only 23 conferences with automatic qualifiers in 1992. According to Rick's records, the 3 teams from the Big West were all at-large entries. In addition, the Big South, and Ohio Valley joined the Great Midwest (a new, 4-team conference), Mid Continent, MEAC, and SWAC as conferences that did not qualify automatically nor have any at-large entries. [The Midwestern Collegiate did qualify a champion this year.]
ECAC is the old Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference, consisting of many divisions that are split into many conferences (Metro Atlantic, Northeast, Patriot League, etc) in 1993. EIBL is the old Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League, made up of the Ivy League and some Patriot League teams.