2025 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament
United States top collegiate-level basketball tournament for 2025 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
United States top collegiate-level basketball tournament for 2025 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Teams | 68 | ||||
| Finals site | Alamodome San Antonio, Texas | ||||
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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.
The following are the sites selected to host each round of the 2025 tournament:.[1]
First Four
First and Second Rounds (Subregionals)
Regional Semi-Finals and Finals (Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight)
National Semifinals and Championship (Final Four)
San Antonio will host the Final Four for the fifth time, having previously hosted in 2018.
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.
This will officially be the first NCAA Tournament without longtime studio host Greg Gumbel who, after sitting out last year's tournament due to family health issues, died from cancer on December 27, 2024.[3]
Westwood One will have exclusive coverage of the entire tournament.
Video
Live video of games is available for streaming through the following means:[4]
For the app this year, a multiview which showed all games airing simultaneously was available for the second straight year.[5]
In addition, the March Madness app will offer Fast Break, whiparound coverage of games similar to NFL RedZone on the First weekend of the tournament (First and Second rounds).
Audio Live audio of games is available for streaming through the following means:
The March Madness app also supported Apple CarPlay and Android Auto through a native app.[6]
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