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. 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:. 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. CBS Sports and Turner 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. Radio. Westwood One will have exclusive coverage of the entire tournament.