Time for one of my favorite posts of the year. The Auto Bid Watch conference tourney slate. I resolved to make it better this season, and part of that will be that I will not have it run down the whole page. The main page will show tourneys in progress, with team names being struck through when they are eliminated. The full slate will only appear if you click "read more" at the bottom of the post.

I've always made an unholy mess of the html on this little feature in the past. My skills have not improved. But I'm going to give it a shot. I'm going to use this spiffy new thing called a "table". I KNOW! Wonders will never cease.

Auto Bids Clenched:

Cornell (Ivy)

East Tennessee State (Atlantic Sun)

Winthrop (Big South)

Murray State (OVC)

Northern Iowa (Missouri Valley)

Old Dominion (CAA)

Siena (MAAC)

St. Mary's (WCC)

Wofford (SoCon)

North Texas (Sun Belt)

Butler (Horizon)

Oakland (Summit)

Robert Morris (Northeast)

Montana (Big Sky)

Tournaments in Progress

Big Ten

SEC

AEC

Atlantic-10 

Big East

Big West

Conference USA

Mid-American

MEAC

Pac-10

Patriot League

Southland

SWAC

Mountain West

Great West

No auto-bid, but it should be fun anyway.

I encouraged people to write and yell at me if I missed someone important in yesterday's season-ending Stat Hounds section. The proprietor of the Penn State blog "Battle does it again" took me up on it:

No love for Talor Battle's 18.8 PPG 5.4 RPG 4.2 APG 1.1 SPG?

Or does he take too many shots for your liking? He averages 15 FGA a game and has a respectable 1.26 PPS.

Just trying to get a guy some love who always gets overshadowed by overrated Kalin Lucas in his own conference.

Not only do we love Battle's stat line, but we revel in the fact that he's part of the growing "Magna Carta" movement, which is what Marco and I call the scroll-on-the-arm tattoo we first noticed on Memphis' Chris Douglas-Roberts.

SA-LUTE, TALOR BATTLE!

First, my apologies for letting BofC slide during Championship Week. This is the time of year when the season's worth of work for you, the reader, tends to pay off in work for us, the writers. We'll be appearing on podcasts and websites where smartass is considered an equal virtue to knowledge throughout the tournament season.

However, you have @HoyaSuxa to thank for getting me off my ass, due to this tweet: "@stfhoops Are you guys sleeping this week or just replacing your blood with coffee?" Point taken.

Since folks be gettin' eliminated and shit, today I'm going to attempt a look back at the season in BofC style. This is considerably easier for Categorical Undeniability than it is for Stat Hounds, but an effort shall be made. And, if I miss your favorite all-around threat, you can email me at stormingthefloor@gmail.com and yell at me, and that's always fun.

Anyway...

Stat Hounds

In case you don't remember, this is the category for all-around players. You can't get by jacking up 30 shots and 10 free throws to get your 20 ppg average and end up here.

Evan Turner, F, Ohio State: 19.5 ppg, 9.4 rpg, 5.8 apg, 1.9 spg, 0.9 bpg

Greivis Vasquez, F, Maryland: 19.6 ppg, 4.6 rpg, 6.3 apg, 1.6 spg, 0.3 bpg

John Wall, G, Kentucky: 16.9 ppg, 4.0 rpg, 6.1 apg, 1.8 spg, 0.5 bpg

Marquez Haynes, G, Texas-Arlington: 22.8 ppg, 4.3 rpg, 3.8 apg, 1.5 spg, 0.3 bpg

Jimmer Fredette, G, BYU: 20.6 ppg, 3.1 rpg, 4.7 apg, 1.2 spg, 0.1 bpg

Artsiom Parakhouski, C, Radford: 21.4 ppg, 13.4 rpg, 1.1 apg, 0.6 spg, 1.2 bpg

Michael DeLoach, G, Norfolk State: 21.8 ppg, 4.4 rpg, 3.2 apg, 2.7 spg, 0.1 bpg

Jeremy Lin, G, Harvard: 16.6 ppg, 4.3 rpg, 4.4 apg, 2.5 spg, 1.1 bpg

Omar Samhan, C, St. Mary's: 20.9 ppg, 10.9 rpg, 1.1 apg, 0.5 spg, 3.0 bpg

Damian Saunders, F, Duquesne: 15.0 ppg, 11.0 rpg, 2.5 apg, 2.8 spg, 3.0 bpg

Honorable Mention (For Meritorious Service to Transitional DI Visibility)

Tyler Cain, C, South Dakota: 15.1 ppg, 10.2 rpg, 2.4 apg, 1.7 spg, 2.8 bpg

Categorical Undeniability

This is for the guys who are so good at one particular thing that they leave everyone else in the dust night after night.

Points: 25.3 per game - Aubrey Coleman, 6'4" senior guard, Houston

Rebounds: 13.4 per game - Artsiom Parakhouski, 6'11" senior center, Radford

Assists: 7.8 per game - Ronald Moore, 6'0" senior guard, Siena

Blocks: 5.4 per game - Hassan Whiteside, 6'11" freshman center, Marshall

Steals: 2.8 per game - Jay Threatt, 5'11" sophomore guard, Delaware State; Devan Downey, 5'9" senior guard, South Carolina ; Christopher Jones, 6'0" senior guard, Prairie View A&M; Damian Saunders, 6'7" junior forward, Duquesne

Tempo, Schmempo

And, for those of you who despise the kind of per game statistics I just made an entire post out of, here are your tempo-free* winners.

Points per 40 Minutes: 28.8 - 6'10" junior forward Charles Garcia, Seattle

True Shooting %: 71.9 - 6'5" junior guard Tommy Freeman, Ohio

Points per Shot: 1.42 - 6'0" junior guard Kellan Carter, Nicholls State; 6'5" junior guard Tommy Freeman, Ohio

Effective FG %: 77.1 - 6'8" junior forward Dallas Lauderdale, Ohio State

Efficiency per Possession: 0.4501 - 6'11" freshman center DeMarcus Cousins, Kentucky

Average Efficiency: 23.6 - 6'7" junior forward Evan Turner, Ohio State

*Really, you need to get something that lazy media guys can grab onto, like that cool saber image the baseball guys have. Nerds never sounded so swashbuckling

Coming up over the next few weeks: the STF Postseason awards, which are always fun.

With my ODU Monarchs playing for the CAA auto-bid, you knew I would be there. However, I went to the game fully prepared to partake in the (doubtless more intense) storming that would occur if William & Mary won their first NCAA bid ever.

I dragooned local reader Stormy to ride shotgun on the way to Richmond. This is what we saw there.