The 2026 NAIA men's basketball tournament was a tournament held by the NAIA to determine the national champion of men's college basketball among its member programs in the United States and Canada, culminating the 2025âÂÂ26 NAIA men's basketball season.
The tournament finals were played at the Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri, from March 19âÂÂ24, 2026.
FreedâÂÂHardeman won the title, its second in three years.
The tournament featured sixty-four teams in a single-elimination format. The first two preliminary rounds were played on regional campus sites on March 13âÂÂ14, and all subsequent rounds were played from March 19âÂÂ24 at the predetermined final tournament site in Kansas City.
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