2024 NCAA Division I
men's basketball tournament
Season2023–24
Teams68
Finals siteState Farm Stadium
Glendale, Arizona
NCAA Division I men's tournaments
«2023 2025»

The 2024 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 2023–24 season. The 85th annual edition of the tournament will begin on March 19, 2024, and will conclude with the championship game on April 8, at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.[1]

Tournament procedure

Pending any changes, a total of 68 teams will enter the 2024 tournament. A total of 32 automatic bids are awarded to each program that won a conference tournament. The remaining 36 bids are issued "at-large", with selections extended by the NCAA Selection Committee. The Selection Committee also seeded 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 bracket of the tournament.

2024 NCAA Tournament schedule and venues

The following are the sites selected to host the each round of the 2024 tournament:[1]

2024 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament is located in the United States
Dayton
Dayton
Brooklyn
Brooklyn
Charlotte
Charlotte
Indianapolis
Indianapolis
Omaha
Omaha
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City
Spokane
Spokane
Memphis
Memphis
2024 First Four (orange) and first and second rounds (green)
2024 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament is located in the United States
Boston
Boston
Dallas
Dallas
Detroit
Detroit
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Glendale
Glendale
2024 Regionals (blue) and Final Four (red)

First Four

First and Second Rounds (Subregionals)

Regional Semi-Finals and Finals (Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight)

National Semifinals and Championship (Final Four)

Glendale will host the Final Four for the second time, having previously hosted in 2017.

Media coverage

Television

CBS Sports and TNT Sports have US television rights to the tournament.[2] As part of a cycle that began in 2016, TBS will televise the 2024 Final Four and the National Championship Game.

This will be the first tournament with Ian Eagle as the lead play-by-play announcer.

Beginning this tournament, Max will be streaming all of its games airing on its networks (TNT, TBS and TruTv) on its Bleacher Report Sports Add-On.[3]

CBS will continue to stream all games on its network (CBS) on Paramount+ and for free on March Madness Live.

Television channels

  • 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 – TBS

Radio

Westwood One will have exclusive coverage of the entire tournament.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Future Dates & Sites". NCAA. Retrieved March 30, 2012.
  2. ↑ Bonesteel, Matt (April 12, 2016). "CBS and Turner Sports lock down NCAA tournament through 2032". The Washington Post. Retrieved April 12, 2016.
  3. ↑ Roth, Emma (September 19, 2023). "Max will start offering a live sports tier in October". The Verge. Retrieved September 25, 2023.
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