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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.

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 each round of the 2024 tournament:

First Four

• March 19 and 20
  • University of Dayton Arena, Dayton, Ohio (Host: University of Dayton)

First and Second Rounds (Subregionals)

• March 21 and 23
  • Spectrum Center, Charlotte, North Carolina (Host: University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
  • CHI Health Center, Omaha, Nebraska (Host: Creighton University)
  • PPG Paints Arena, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Host: Duquesne University)
  • Delta Center, Salt Lake City, Utah (Host: University of Utah)
• March 22 and 24
  • Barclays Center, Brooklyn, New York (Host: Atlantic 10 Conference)
  • Gainbridge Fieldhouse, Indianapolis, Indiana (Host: IUPUI, Horizon League)
  • FedExForum, Memphis, Tennessee (Host: University of Memphis)
  • Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena, Spokane, Washington (Host: University of Idaho)

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

• March 28 and 30
  • East Regional
    • TD Garden, Boston, Massachusetts (Host: Boston College)
  • West Regional
    • Crypto.com Arena, Los Angeles, California (Host: Pepperdine University)
• March 29 and 31
  • South Regional
    • American Airlines Center, Dallas, Texas (Host: Big 12 Conference)
  • Midwest Regional
    • Little Caesars Arena, Detroit, Michigan (Host: University of Detroit Mercy, Oakland University)

National Semifinals and Championship (Final Four)

• April 6 and 8
  • State Farm Stadium, Glendale, Arizona (Host: Arizona State University)

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. 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.

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

• 2024 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament
• 2024 NCAA Division II men's basketball tournament
• 2024 NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament

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.
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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