2024 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament

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 in Glendale, Arizona.[1]

2024 NCAA Division I
Men's Basketball Tournament
Teams68
Finals siteState Farm Stadium
Glendale, Arizona
NCAA Division I Men's Tournaments
«2023 2025»

Tournament procedure
Further information: NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament and § Current tournament format

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]

Dayton
Brooklyn
Charlotte
Indianapolis
Omaha
Pittsburgh
Salt Lake City
Spokane
Memphis
2024 First Four (orange) and first and second rounds (green)
Boston
Dallas
Detroit
Los Angeles
Glendale
2024 Regionals (blue) and Final Four (red)

First Four

First and Second Rounds (Subregionals)

Regional Semi-Finals and Finals

National Semifinals and Championship

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

Media Coverage

Television
Main article: NCAA March Madness (TV program)

CBS Sports and Turner 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.

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. "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.
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