These teams should be Automatic Bids based on their nickname/mascot

1. University of California-Santa Cruz Banana Slugs


2. Concordia College Cobbers (team mascot is the Cobber, which is represented in the Concordia athletic department emblem as a snarling ear of corn, wearing a handsome maroon sweater and a green husk for trousers.)

3. Evergreen State College Geoducks (pronounced gooey-duck- the largest burrowing clam in the world, maturing to an average weight of three pounds and sometimes growing as large as 15 pounds. It has long been reputed to have the properties of an aphrodisiac, owing to its long and, some would say, phallic-looking siphon. And it can live 150 years. What does all that have to do with college basketball, you ask?
Well, not too much. But you have to admit it's pretty hilarious that there's actually a group of fans out there in college basketball land rooting and chanting for "gooey ducks." And their fight song (I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP):

Go, Geoducks, go,
Through the mud and the sand,
Let's go.
Siphon high, squirt it out,
Swivel all about,
Let it all hang out.

4. Washburn University Ichabods

5. California Maritime Academy Keelhaulers (Keelhauling was once a common form of punishment in the British and Dutch navies. According to the practice, an insubordinate sailor would be tied to a rope and dragged under the barnacle-encrusted keel of the ship, from one side to the other. He would emerge (if he indeed survived the experience) presumably humbled and weary.SO FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO THINKS NO ONE READS THIS, LET ME SHARE WITH YOU THIS INSIGHT: this has been discussed at a partner's meeting. In connection with billing.

6. Centenary College of Louisiana Ladies and Gents

7. Rowan University Profs( the mascot is an owl named "Whoo RU." )

8. Oglethorpe University Stormy Petrels

What the &*%$ is a Stormy Petrel, you ask? The stormy petrel (pronounced idiosyncratically pea-trel) is a type of sea bird that, according to nautical legend, roosts on ships when it senses bad weather is on the way. Kind of like a CPA during tax season. Or when my wife tells me she needs to go shopping because she has nothing to wear.

9. Heidelberg College Student Princes (you don't want to know)

10. Trinity Trolls (you really don't want to know)