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
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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.