2025 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament
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| Teams | 68 | ||||
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| Finals site | Alamodome San Antonio, Texas | ||||
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The 2025 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament will involve 68 teams playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I men's college basketball national champion for the 2024–25 season. The 86th annual edition of the tournament will begin on March 18, 2025, and will conclude with the championship game on April 7, at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.
Tournament procedure[edit]
Pending any changes, a total of 68 teams will enter the 2025 tournament. A total of 32 automatic bids are awarded to each program that win a conference tournament. The remaining 36 bids are issued "at-large", with selections extended by the NCAA Selection Committee on Selection Sunday, March 16. The Selection Committee will also seed the entire field from 1 to 68.
Eight teams (the four-lowest seeded automatic qualifiers and the four lowest-seeded at large-teams) play in the First Four. The winners of these games will advance to the main tournament bracket.
2025 NCAA Tournament schedule and venues[edit]
The following are the sites selected to host each round of the 2025 tournament:.[1]
First Four
- March 18 and 19
First and Second Rounds (Subregionals)
- March 20 and 22
- March 21 and 23
Regional Semi-Finals and Finals (Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight)
- March 27 and 29
- East Regional
- West Regional
- March 28 and 30
- South Regional
- Midwest Regional
National Semifinals and Championship (Final Four)
- April 5 and 7
San Antonio will host the Final Four for the fifth time, having previously hosted in 2018.
Media coverage[edit]
Television[edit]
CBS Sports and TNT Sports have US television rights to the tournament.[2] As part of a cycle that began in 2016, CBS will televise the 2025 Final Four and the national championship game.
Television channels[edit]
- Selection Show – CBS
- First Four – TruTV
- First and Second Rounds – CBS, TBS, TNT, and TruTV.
- Regional Semifinals and Finals – CBS and TBS
- National Semifinals (Final Four) and Championship – CBS
Radio[edit]
Westwood One will have exclusive coverage of the entire tournament.
References[edit]
- ^ "Future Dates & Sites". NCAA. Retrieved March 30, 2012.
- ^ Bonesteel, Matt (April 12, 2016). "CBS And Turner lock down NCAA Tournament Through 2032". The Washington Post. Retrieved April 12, 2016.