Predicting Conference Winners with MyBookie NCAA Basketball

At this stage of the season in college football, the focus tends to be on the tournament favorites. Yes, MyBookie NCAA Basketball is inviting you to take advantage with teams doing all they can to get in. For those who are essentially a lock at this point, their focus is on locking up the regular season conference crown. There will be fantastic battles happening, so let’s take a closer look at the bigger conferences to see how they look.

Predicting the College Basketball Top Conference Winners

There are 30 Conferences with great possibilities, so choose the group of Conferences that are generally the favorites for basketball bettors and fans.

See the most powerful conferences, who participate each year in the NCAA Tournament, and the rest of the list below:

Power 5 Conferences

The Conference was formed in 1994, beginning play in 1996, and since then, has won 3 national titles, in 2008, 2021 and 2022.

And talking about the best, the current Conference Champion is the Houston Cougars, and the Big 12’s most winningest team in terms of championships are the Kansas Jayhawks with 16.

Big 12

The Southeastern Conference began in 1932, and in that year made its debut with 13 teams, with Kentucky being the first conference champion.

Auburn is the reigning SEC Champion, while Kentucky is the big winner with 50 Conference Championships.

It is also worth mentioning that the SEC has won 11 National Championships from 1932 to the present day: 1948, 1949, 1951, 1958, 1958, 1978, 1978, 1994, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2006, 2007, 2012, 2025.

SEC

This is one of the longest running conferences in NCAA Basketball, began in 1891, under the tutelage of an education teacher named James Naismith.

Their current champion is Michigan State.

Following the winner’s trail, the Big Ten has the Purdue Boilermakers as the most Championship winners, with 26 titles won.

How many National Championships does the Big Ten Conference have? From 1896, its official launch date, to date, it has 10 titles.

Big Ten

One of the fan-favorite Conferences with the most national titles (15), the last time was in 2019, when Virginia claimed the win.

Its origin dates back to 1953, and the following year NC State would become the first ACC champion, but who really has the honors is Duke, who has won the conference Championship 22 times.

Currently, Duke is the defending champion and holds 23 titles.

ACC

Conferences to Watch

American

The Conference is one of the youngest in College Basketball, having been created only in 2014 as a result of the split of the original Big East and American Athletic.

Memphis (2023,2025), Cincinnati (2018, 2019), Houston (2021, 2022) and SMU (2015, 2017) are the winningest Conference Championship teams, twice each.

The current champions are Memphis, and Louisville was the first to win the AAC title in 2014. Despite being a young conference, it was in 2014 when the Huskies captured the only national title for the AAC.

Big East

Originally, this Conference was divided into 2, the AAC and the current Big East in 1980, where UConn is the jewel to follow, as it left a national title that is officially recognized for the American Athletic.

It is worth mentioning that the Big East and its teams have won the National Championship 10 times: 1984, 1985, 1999, 2003, 2003, 2004, 2004, 2011, 2013, 2013, 2016, 2018, 2023 and 2024. St. John’s Red Storm is the current 2025 Champion.

Mountain West

The 2025 Champion is Colorado State, with three titles in the Mountain West. They, along with San Diego State have the chance each season to advance, but so far, any team in the Conference has won the national title.

WCC

Incredibly, and with similar situations as the Big West Conference, this program has one national title, with San Francisco being the most deserving of men’s basketball honors for the West Coast Conference.

Although it has been absent from the limelight in recent years, the Conference has another strong team, and Gonzaga is the one that has taken the lead here.

It is a team to consider in every season, as it has won 22 Conference Championships, and is a strong candidate to be always in the lead to the March Madness.

Weak Conferences, Underdogs

America East

This Conference created in 1980 has no teams that have won the national title, in fact, in the March Madness Tournament few teams manage to be the surprise.

Vermont is the most notable representative of the America East, winning the Conference Championship 11 times. The current Conference 2025 Champion is Bryant.

ASUN

Here we need clarify that this Conference created in 1979 has had several movements of teams to other conferences, for example, Belmont Bruins (Missouri Valley Conference), who won 5 times, or UCF (Big 12), who also won 4 times.

This is why, Florida Gulf Coast should be recognized as the immediate successor, because it has won 3 times (2013, 2016, 2017) the ASUN title and part of the original teams that remain here: Bellarmine, Lipscomb, North Florida and Stetson.

From here, we need to highlight Lipscomb Bisons, who are the current Champions (2025) and so far, no team belonging to the Conference has won the national title.

Atlantic 10

Like the ASUN Conference, there was movement of teams to other conferences, such as Temple (AAC) or Xavier (Big East), where the Owls had 9 Championships won.

So Massachusetts officially becomes the team that has won the most times here: 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996. Then follows Saint Joseph’s: 1986, 1997, 2014, 2016.

Although it was founded in 1977, it still has no team that has won the national title. Thus, it is worth noting that its current champion team is VCU (2025).

Big Sky

Until today, no team from the Conference has won the national title since it was founded in 1976.

Montana has 12 Conference Championships in its trophy cabinet, it is the most winning, and on the other hand, Montana State, has been a surprise by being Champion 2 times in a row (2023 and 2024), something similar to what happened with the Purdue team, from the Big Ten Conference.

Boise State was the first regular season champion in 1976.

Big South

Since its founding in 1986, Winthrop (13), UNC Asheville (6) and Coastal Carolina (5 – now with the Sun Belt Conference) are the winningest teams, followed by Charleston Southern with 4 Championships.

Longwood Lancers is the reigning Champion (2025), while Charleston Southern was the first team in 1986 to win the regular season.

Despite being quite a few years old, no Big Souh team has ever won the national title.

Big West

Formerly called the Pacific Coast Athletic Association, this conference was founded in 1976 and changed its name to the Big West to include and be more in line with the teams that were part of it at the beginning, since several were from outside California, as in the case of Hawaii.

UNLV (Mountain West) is the only team to have won the national title in 1990 and has seven conference championships, the most in the Big West, followed by Long Beach and Utah State with 6.

Currently, Long Beach State its the most recent Conference Champion, having won the award in 2024.

MyBookie NCAA Basketball Coastal Athletic Association

CAA

UNC Wilmington is the 2025 Champion team and the one that has remained after several changes over the years, making them the second winningest team with 7 titles.

In its beginnings, the Conference had Old Dominion, the team that has won the most Conference Championships and the first to win the regular season in 1980, since the creation of the Coastal Athletic Association.

Despite several years of competition, the Conference has no team that has won the national title.

CUSA

This is one of the Conferences that over the years has had different teams, where the original members from 1996 are no longer with us.

For example, let’s look at Memphis (AAC), an original member with six conference championships, followed by Cincinnati (Big 12) with four championships.

It should be noted that these changes hurt the Conference, as currently its winningest representative is Middle Tennessee, which has managed to win 2 Championship titles in 2016 and 2017.

With all these changes in Conference USA, UTEP Miners is the only team that has managed to win the national title. Liberty is the reigning Conference Champion.

Horizon League

Since the conference’s inception in 1980, the most successful period was in the early 2000s, when the Horizon League became one of the most prolific in all of college basketball, including Sweet 16 appearances and impressive March Madness victories for its teams.

Like other conferences, the Horizon has not been the exception in terms of teams moving to other conferences, such as the Butler Bulldogs (Big East), who is the winningest team in the conference.

To this day, the Horizon does not have any team that has won the national title. Their most recent Champion is Robert Morris in 2025.

Ivy League

Here we find 8 private universities, except for Cornell, which were founded in the colonial period and are called “the old 8”.

The first steps in basketball were taken in the 1987-88 season, when Cornell was crowned the inaugural champion. It is also worth mentioning that Princeton is the best team in the Conference, having won the title 29 times. The current 2025 Conference Champion is Yale.

Another fact to remember is that the Ivy League started playing March Madness starting in 2017 and so far, no team from here has won the national title.

MyBookie NCAA Basketball Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference

MAAC

Iona Gaels is the most representative team of this Conference with 13 titles. This Conference had been changing teams throughout the years.

Since 1982, the year the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference was created, no team has won the national title. On the other hand, Mount St. Mary’s is currently the Champion team.

MyBookie NCAA Basketball Mid-American Conference

MAC

The Mid-American Conference is one of the few Conferences that has maintained its teams since 1980, when it was created.

Another great detail is that 3 teams are the most winning teams with 7 Championships, being Ball State Cardinals, Kent State Golden Flashes and Ohio Bobcats.

So far, no MAC team has won the national title. On the flipside, the Akron Zips are the recent 2025 champions, conquered their fifth Conference championship.

MyBookie NCAA Basketball Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference

MEAC

Like most NCAA Conferences, basketball in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference was created in 1972 and as in other cases, the North Carolina A&T Aggies – now in the CAA Conference as of 2021 – is the winningest team, winning the trophy 16 times.

The same case with Hampton, which also belongs to the AAC, is the second winningest team, so it is Howard and South Carolina State that have taken the lead in this Conference.

Norfolk State Spartans is their most recent Conference Champion (2025); No team from MEAC has ever won the national title.

MyBookie NCAA Basketball Missouri Valley Conference

MVC

As we have mentioned before, there are conferences that are not as popular or outstanding as the Power 5, being the case also of the Missouri Valley Conference. Therefore, it is worth mentioning the most outstanding teams to know and to follow.

No doubt, Creighton deserves the honors, they have won the conference championship 12 times. On the other hand, Drake is the reigning 2025 champion, hopefully to reach the Sweet 16.

Oklahoma A+M (1945, 1946) and Cincinnati (now in the Big 12) twice in 1961 and 1962, were the only teams to win the national title for this conference. And since then, no current team has ever won another tournament title.

MyBookie NCAA Basketball North East Conference

NEC

Merrimack, Wagner and Fairleigh Dickinson are the teams to watch in the Northeast Conference, as they have been at the top of the rankings in the March Madness Tournament in recent years.

Yet it’s Robert Morris’ team – now in the Horizon League – that is the winningest team in the conference. So, who are the biggest winners? In this case they are: LIU Sharks (1984, 1997, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2018), Fairleigh Dickinson (1985, 1988, 1998, 2005, 2016, 2019) and Mount St. Mary’s (1995, 1999, 2008, 2014, 2017, 2021).

No NEC team has ever won the national title; St Francis Red Flash is the 2025 Conference Champion.

MyBookie NCAA Basketball Ohio Valley Conference

OVC

The Conference was inaugurated in 1949, but the Conference Championship has been interrupted several times in its first years of competition.

It was in 1975, when the tournament really began in the Ohio Valley Conference, leaving Murray State (now in the MVC) as the biggest winner with 18 championships.

SIU Edwardsville is the 2025 Champions.

Patriot League

This is another Conference to highlight, not so much for its achievements, because it has kept the same teams over the years since 1991 when it was created.

Colgate, along with Bucknell and Holy Cross, are the winningest teams in the Conference Championship, so these 3 teams are the ones to pay special attention to during and after the regular season.

Incredibly, it is Holy Cross, the only team in the Patriot League to have won the national title in 1947, albeit in the Independent Conference at the time.

MyBookie NCAA Basketball Southern Conference

SoCon

Here we find another of the oldest conferences in the NCAA, since 1922 it has had a series of changes in the teams that compose it, for example, Clemson, Alabama, Ole Miss, are old universities that are no longer there.

Even so, we can find Chattanooga as the most winningest in the Conference, with 12 Championships won, being ahead of East Tennessee State and Furman, which have also had relevance in the Southern Conference tournament.

With so much change in the conference, there is still no team that has won the national title. Wofford is the reigning 2025 Champion.

Southland

Lamar University is the winningest team in the conference (1981, 1983, 2000, 2012) and as with other programs, the Southland is one of the weakest conferences in the NCAAB.

With no national titles won from 1981 to the present, this has been one of the conferences that has also been affected by changes of teams to other conferences.

Now the team to follow is McNeese, the 2025 Champion and the one that could be in the March Madness tournament again.

Summit League

Created in 1984, the Summit Conference has no national title winning team.

Valparaiso (now in the MVC) was the most winningest in the Conference, a place that now belongs to South Dakota State with 7 Championships, who obtained the ticket to the NCAA Tournament in 2024.

Omaha Mavericks are the 2025 champions.

Sun Belt

Currently, Troy is the 2025 Conference Champion could be the representative in the NCAA Tournament.

The teams to watch here, besides the Trojans, are South Alabama and Louisiana, who have also won the Conference Championship 5 times each.

Since its inception in 1977, no team from the Conference has won the national title.

MyBookie NCAA Basketball Southwestern Athletic Conference

SWAC

One of the most overlooked conferences in NCAA Basketball is the Southwestern Athletic Conference, created in 1978, no team has won the national title to this day.

Alabama State was crowned for the 5th ocassion in the Conference Championship in 2025.

Texas Southern and Southern are the teams that have won the most Conference Championships, 11 and 9 respectively. From the SWAC, keep an eye on these 3 teams.

MyBookie NCAA Basketball Western Athletic Conference

WAC

New Mexico State and UTEP, now both in Conference USA, are the most winning teams with 10 and 5 Championships respectively, but in this case and as in some other Conferences, it is Grand Canyon, still belonging to the Western Athletic Conference, the most winning team with 3 Championships obtained (2021, 2023, 2024).

This is another of the not so well known Conferences that does not have any team that has won the national title.

The 2025 Champion is Grand Canyon, who also made it in 2024 and 2023.

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