| Season | 2024–25 | ||||
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| Teams | 16 | ||||
| Finals site | T-Mobile Arena Paradise, Nevada | ||||
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The 2025 College Basketball Crown (CBC) is a single-elimination, fully-bracketed men's college basketball postseason tournament featuring 16 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I teams not selected to participate in the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. The first edition of the tournament is scheduled to begin on March 31 and conclude April 6. [1] [2] The bracket was unveiled by Fox Sports Insider John Fanta on Monday, March 17, 2025, on the FS1 show Breakfast Ball. All games will be played on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, with all first- and second-round games at the MGM Grand Garden Arena and the semifinals and final at T-Mobile Arena. The first- and second-round games will air on FS1 and the semifinal and championship games on FOX.
It is presumed in the following that teams in the CBC were seeded 1–16, with the seeding based upon the matchups of the tournament selection committee and shown below. Even if the seeding as shown is incorrect, or if there is no seeding at all in this new tournament, the following table of teams matches the brackets and schedules below.
Note: Team records are before playing in the tournament
| Seed | Team | Conference | Record |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boise State | Mountain West | 24–10 |
| 2 | Cincinnati | Big 12 | 18−15 |
| 3 | Villanova | Big East | 19–14 |
| 4 | Nebraska | Big Ten | 17–14 |
| 5 | Georgetown | Big East | 17−15 |
| 6 | USC | Big Ten | 16−17 |
| 7 | UCF | Big 12 | 17−16 |
| 8 | Utah | Big 12 | 16−16 |
| 9 | Butler | Big East | 14−19 |
| 10 | Oregon State | WCC | 20−12 |
| 11 | Tulane | American | 19–13 |
| 12 | Washington St. | WCC | 19−14 |
| 13 | Arizona State | Big 12 | 13−19 |
| 14 | Colorado | Big 12 | 14−20 |
| 15 | DePaul | Big East | 14–19 |
| 16 | George Washington | Atlantic 10 | 21–12 |
| Game | Time | Matchup | Score | Television | Attendance | Box score | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First round – Monday, March 31 | |||||||
| 1 | 12:00 p.m. | (8) Utah vs. (9) Butler | FS1 | ||||
| 2 | 2:30 p.m. | (1) Boise St. vs. (16) George Washington | |||||
| 3 | 5:30 p.m. | (4) Nebraska vs. (13) Arizona St. | |||||
| 4 | 8:00 p.m. | (5) Georgetown vs. (12) Washington St. | |||||
| First round – Tuesday, April 1 | |||||||
| 5 | 12:00 p.m. | (2) Cincinnati vs. (15) DePaul | FS1 | ||||
| 6 | 2:30 p.m. | (10) Oregon St. vs. (7) UCF | |||||
| 7 | 5:30 p.m. | (3) Villanova vs. (14) Colorado | |||||
| 8 | 8:00 p.m. | (11) Tulane vs. (6) USC | |||||
| Second Round – Wednesday, April 2 | |||||||
| 9 | 4:00 p.m. | vs. | FS1 | ||||
| 10 | 6:30 p.m. | vs. | |||||
| Second Round – Thursday, April 3 | |||||||
| 11 | 4:00 p.m. | vs. | FS1 | ||||
| 12 | 6:30 p.m. | vs. | |||||
| Semifinals – Saturday, April 5 | |||||||
| 13 | 10:30 a.m. | vs. | FOX | ||||
| 14 | 1:00 p.m. | vs. | |||||
| Championship – Sunday, April 6 | |||||||
| 15 | 2:30 p.m. | vs. | FOX | ||||
| Game times in Pacific Time. (#) Rankings denote tournament seed. [10] | |||||||
| First round MGM Grand Garden Arena March 31 & April 1 | Second round MGM Grand Garden Arena April 2 & 3 | Semifinals T-Mobile Arena April 5 | Championship T-Mobile Arena April 6 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Boise St | ||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | George Washington | ||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Utah | ||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | Butler | ||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Georgetown | ||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | Washington St. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Nebraska | ||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | Arizona St. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 6 | USC | ||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | Tulane | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Villanova | ||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | Colorado | ||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | UCF | ||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | Oregon St. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Cincinnati | ||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | DePaul | ||||||||||||||||||