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2026 College Basketball Crown

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2026 College Basketball Crown
Season 2025–26
Teams8
Finals site T-Mobile Arena,
Paradise, Nevada
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The 2026 College Basketball Crown (CBC) will be a single-elimination, fully-bracketed men's college basketball postseason tournament featuring eight National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I teams not selected to participate in the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. The tournament is scheduled to commence on April 1 and conclude on April 5. [1]

Contents

All games will be played on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, with quarterfinal games at the MGM Grand Garden Arena and the semifinal and final games at T-Mobile Arena. The quarterfinal games will air on FS1 with the semifinal and final games on FOX. [1]

Participating teams

Automatic bids are offered to the top two available teams in the NCAA Evaluation Tool (NET) rankings from each of the Big East, Big Ten, and Big 12 conferences as of the close of conference-tournament play on Selection Sunday, March 15, 2026. The remaining two teams in the bracket are at-large selections made by tournament organizers. [2]

The NET rankings of the available Big East, Big Ten, and Big 12 teams through the finish of play on March 15, 2026, are summarized in the tables below. Teams in bold accepted a bid; teams in italics were extended an automatic bid but declined it.

Accepted bids

The teams accepting tournament bids are shown below. Team records are prior to the start of the tournament, and NET rankings are as of March 16, 2026. [3]

TeamConferenceOverall
record		NET
rank [3] 		Bid
type		AppearanceLast
bid
Baylor Big 12 16–16 (.500)50Automatic1stNever
Colorado Big 12 17–15 (.531)76At-large2nd 2025
Creighton Big East 15–17 (.469)83Automatic1stNever
Minnesota Big Ten 15–17 (.469)81Automatic1stNever
Oklahoma SEC 19–15 (.559)48At-large1stNever
Rutgers Big Ten 14–19 (.424)134Automatic1stNever
Stanford ACC 20–12 (.625)61At-large1stNever
West Virginia [4] Big 12 18–14 (.563)59Automatic1stNever

NOTE: only one of the Big East's two automatic bids was accepted, necessitating the awarding of a third at-large bid.

Declined bids

Schedule

GameTimeMatchupScoreBox
score		AttendanceTelevision
Quarterfinals – April 1
15:00 p.m.Oklahoma vs. Colorado90–86 OT [8]   FS1
27:30 p.m.Baylor vs. Minnesota67–48 [9]
Quarterfinals – April 2
35:00 p.m.Stanford vs. West Virginia77–82OT [10] 2,310FS1
47:30 p.m.Rutgers vs. Creighton69–82 [11]
Semifinals – April 4
510:30 a.m.Oklahoma vs Baylor–   FOX
61:00 p.m.West Virginia vs Creighton– 
Final – April 5
72:30 p.m.Game 5 Winner vs Game 6 Winner–  FOX
Game times are Pacific Daylight Time.

Bracket

Source: [12]

Quarterfinals
MGM Grand Garden Arena
April 1 & 2
FS1 		Semifinals
T-Mobile Arena
April 4
FOX 		Final
T-Mobile Arena
April 5
FOX
      
Oklahoma 90*
Colorado 86
Oklahoma  
Baylor  
Baylor 67
Minnesota 48
  
  
Stanford 77
West Virginia 82*
West Virginia  
Creighton  
Rutgers 69
Creighton 82

* denotes overtime period

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "FOX Sports and AEG Announce Official Dates for the 2026 College Basketball Crown With Elite Eight-Team Field". AEG Worldwide. July 21, 2025.
  2. ↑ Casazza, Mike (March 14, 2026). "Sources: Men's Basketball Expected to Play in College Basketball Crown". 247Sports. Retrieved March 16, 2026.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "2025-26 D-I Men's Basketball NET Ranking thru Games 03/15/2026". NCAA Statistics. March 15, 2026. Retrieved March 16, 2026.
  4. ↑ "WVU Basketball to Accept Bid to College Basketball Crown". WV Sports Now. March 15, 2026. Retrieved March 16, 2026.
  5. ↑ "Where does Cincinnati Bearcats basketball stand for selection Sunday?". March 15, 2026. Retrieved March 16, 2026.
  6. ↑ "Indiana basketball's season is over, source says, just missing March Madness, skipping others". March 15, 2026. Retrieved March 16, 2026.
  7. ↑ "Seton Hall Athletics Statement on 2025-26 Men's Basketball Postseason". shupirates.com. Seton Hall Pirates. March 15, 2026. Retrieved March 16, 2026.
  8. ↑ "Oklahoma Sooners 90 Colorado Buffalos 86". NCAA Statistics. April 1, 2026. Retrieved April 2, 2026.
  9. ↑ "Baylor Bears 67 Minnesota Golden Gophers 48". NCAA Statistics. April 1, 2026. Retrieved April 2, 2026.
  10. ↑ "Stanford Cardinal 77 West Virginia Mountaineers 82". NCAA Statistics. April 2, 2026. Retrieved April 2, 2026.
  11. ↑ "Rutgers Scarlet Knights 69 Creighton Bluejays 82". NCAA Statistics. April 2, 2026. Retrieved April 2, 2026.
  12. ↑ "The Field is Set". College Basketball Crown. March 16, 2026. Retrieved March 17, 2026.
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