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.
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| Season | 2024–25 | ||||
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| Teams | 68 | ||||
| Finals site | Alamodome San Antonio, Texas | ||||
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Tournament procedure edit
Pending any changes, a total of 68 teams will enter the 2025 tournament. A total of 31 automatic bids are awarded to each program that win a conference tournament. The remaining 37 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.
- ^ Inactive conference
References edit
- ^ "Future Dates & Sites". NCAA. Retrieved March 30, 2012.