Usually I can get this list from D1Baseball Stock Report but this year that report is truncated and not including this information. So, I made my own, readers beware. 😁
Potential bid stealers (Qualified leader(s) but an outsider could steal a bid from other conferences via the AQ thingy)
- American Athletic (East Carolina is in, an outsider could steal)
- ASUN (Liberty is in, an outsider could steal)
- Atlantic 10 (VCU is in, an outsider could steal)
- Big East (UConn is in, an outsider could steal)
- Big 12 (Four teams in, an outsider could steal)
- Colonial Athletic (Northeastern is in, an outsider could steal)
- CUSA (Four teams in, an outsider could steal)
- Horizon League (Wright St is in , an outsider could steal)
- MAAC (Fairfield is in, an outsider could steal)
- Mo Valley (Indiana St is in, an outsider could steal)
We can expect fewer stolen bids this year because several conferences have opted out of a conference tournament and have no chance to steal a bid. We're not alone. All those conferences are left off this list.
There are a number of conferences so bad they have no one who will get an at-large bid, only their AQ will go.
Also, I left off the ACC and the SEC b/c they have so many qualifiers for an a-large bid surely one of them will win the AQ spot.