Male’s NCAA competition 2025 schedule, locations, bracket statement date, more

Sep 30, 2024, 10:30 AM ET

We have to do with six weeks out of the beginning of the 2024-25 males’s college basketball season, so let’s have a look at the end of it: the 2025 men’s NCAA tournament.March Insanity 2025

begins with First Four games Tuesday, March 18, in Dayton, Ohio, and ends with the Last Four on April 5 and 7 at the Alamodome in San Antonio.The cities for the very first and 2nd rounds of the

tournament are: Lexington, Kentucky; Providence, Rhode Island; Seattle; Wichita, Kansas; Cleveland; Denver; Milwaukee; and Raleigh, North Carolina.The regional semifinals(Sweet 16 )and finals(Elite 8)will take place in Newark, New Jersey (East); Atlanta( South ); Indianapolis (Midwest); and San Francisco(West). Selection Sunday, and the statement of the 68-team bracket, will precede all the games Sunday, March 16. Total dates and location info for the 2025 Division I guys’s NCAA competition are below.Meanwhile, bookmark Joe Lunardi’s ESPN Bracketology for projections of the field, consisting of groups thought about to be on the bubble. The bracket will be updated every Tuesday during the nonconference portion of the 2024-25 routine season, every Tuesday and Friday during conference play and more regularly during league competitions– aka Champ Week– in the lead-up to Selection Sunday.Quick links: Bracketology|Way-Too-Early Top 25 Selection

Sunday:
March 16 First Four: March 18-19 First round(round of 64): March 20 Rupp Arena, Lexington Amica Mutual Pavilion, Providence Intrust Bank Arena, Wichita Ball Arena, Denver Preliminary(

round of 64): March 21 Climate Pledge Arena, Seattle Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse