Results are complete through regional play.
This is a 'scorecard' by conference for 1999, the first for the new 64-team playoff system where every conference gets an automatic bid.
My original motivation for this summary was the thought that the regionals are a major source of inter-conference and inter-region play that helps one evaluate the relative strength and (possibly) future seedings of teams from various regions and conferences.
Current status:
Here is the 'histogram' of the success rate for the 1999 NCAA regionals.
With the new 64-team system, I now tally a Regional champion under "win" and the super-Regional champion (the team that goes to the CWS) under "champ" so the "champ" column is unchanged from the past.
The comments line includes a summary of the recent "playin" history of the conferences.
------ wins ------
Conference Number 0 1 2+ win champ [9876] comments
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Big-12 6 2 1 1 2 [....] strong showing
SEC 6 2 1 2 1 [....]
ACC 5 1 1 2 1 [....] #5 was loser
Pac-10 4 1 1 1 1 [....] #3 was loser
Big West 3 2 1 [....]
Big Ten 3 2 1 [....]
SunBelt 3 2 1 [....]
Conf USA 3 3 [....]
Colonial 3 1 2 [....]
Mo-Valley 3 1 2 [....] #3 was loser
Big East 3 1 1 1 [....] below par
Trans America 2 1 1 [....]
West Coast AC 2 1 1 [*.WL]
Southland 2 2 [....] very bad
independent 1 1 Miami (27 yrs)
WAC 1 1 [...W]
Atlantic-10 1 1 [.W..]
Big South 1 1 [....]
Midwestern Col 1 1 [*LLL] beat Nat'l 1 seed
Ohio Valley 1 1 [*W.W]
SWAC 1 1 [*LLL] (first since 1989)
America East 1 1 [..W.]
Ivy 1 1 [*WWW]
Metro Atlantic 1 1 [*LLL]
MAC 1 1 [....]
MEAC 1 1 [*LLL] (first ever)
Mid-Continent 1 1 [*WWW]
Northeast 1 1 [*WWL]
Patriot 1 1 [*LLW]
Southern 1 1 [...W]
The square-bracketed code on the right records the recent status of
each conference with regard to whether they automatically qualified a
team or had to win a best-2-of-3 playin tournament to qualify for the
tournament. This was done from 1994 to 1998.
The code is as follows:
. = automatic qualifier for 1999 and/or previous year
* = identified as playin teams for 1999 if expansion not approved
W = qualified by winning playin tournament
L = lost the playin tournament
For more detail on the playin and NCAA participation history of these conferences and (in some cases) their predicessors, I have a summary page showing which conferences got an automatic bid to the NCAA regionals in the past decade.