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.
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 The quarterfinal games will air on FS1 with the semifinal and final games on FOX.
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.
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.
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.
NOTE: only one of the Big East's two automatic bids was accepted, necessitating the awarding of a third at-large bid.
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