Troy State and North Carolina Asheville are going to the NCAA Tournament for the first time with very different records.

They were two of four schools — Austin Peay and East Tennessee were the others — to win conference tournament championship games Saturday, and the automatic berth to the 65-team NCAA field that goes with it.

Penn also earned a bid to the NCAA men’s basketball tournament Saturday when its 69-52 win over Cornell gave it the Ivy League title. It is the second straight season the Quakers (21-5) advanced to the NCAAs as Ivy champion and eighth in the last 11.

Troy State's Jacob Hazouri (24) and Herbert Evans (5) celebrate an 80-69 victory over Central Florida in the Atlantic Sun Conference championship game. The victory Saturday in Atlanta resulted in an automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament.

Ben Fletcher had a season-high 29 points for Troy State in its 80-69 victory over Central Florida in the title game of the Atlantic Sun tournament.

North Carolina Asheville beat Radford, 85-71, to win the bid from the Big South Conference and become the 17th team to qualify for the NCAA Tournament with a losing record.

The Bulldogs (14-16) immediately became an early favorite to appear in the NCAA’s play-in game at Dayton, Ohio, March 18.

Austin Peay beat Tennessee Tech, 63-57, to win the Ohio Valley Conference for the third time and earn its fifth NCAA bid.

Tim Smith, a 5-foot-9 freshman, had 25 points to lead East Tennessee to a 97-90 victory over Chattanooga to win its first Southern Conference tournament title since a run of four straight from 1989-92.

Thirty-one conferences receive automatic berths to the NCAA Tournament, and all but the Ivy League have a tournament to decide who gets it.