College Basketball Crown

College basketball tournament

College Basketball CrownCurrent season, competition or edition:
2025 College Basketball Crown

Tournament logo

Sport| College basketball
Founded| 2024
Founder| Fox Sports
AEG Global Partnerships
First season| 2025
No. of teams| 16
Country| United States
Venue(s)| MGM Grand Garden Arena
T-Mobile Arena
TV partner(s)| Fox, FS1
Related
competitions| NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament

The College Basketball Crown is an annual men's college basketball tournament operated by Fox Sports and AEG Global Partnerships. The inaugural tournament will be held in 2025, on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada.[1]

## Selection process

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Two automatic qualifiers from each of the Big East, Big Ten and Big 12 conferences as well as ten at-large teams will be selected from the pool of teams that did not qualify for the NCAA tournament.[1] Although the official announcement of the launching of the tournament provided no details regarding selection criteria,[2] a September 2023 proposal for the tournament indicated that NET rankings would be used to select teams, which, at the time, were expected to include only Big East, Big Ten and Big 12 squads. Further, the proposal indicated that teams selected from those three conferences would be required to participate in the College Basketball Crown, which would make it impossible for them to also participate in the National Invitation Tournament, should they be selected or receive an automatic bid.[3] Note that, while the NCAA does not allow schools invited to an NCAA championship tournament to decline and then compete in another postseason event, currently this rule does not apply to the Men's NIT, even though it is run by the NCAA.

## References

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1. ^ a b "Fox Sports & AEG Launch the College Basketball Crown: A Reimagined Postseason College Hoops Tournament". Fox Sports. April 3, 2024. Retrieved April 3, 2024.
2. ^ Clinkscales, Jason (3 April 2024). "Fox Sports, AEG Launching 'College Basketball Crown' Tournament". Sportico. Retrieved May 31, 2024.
3. ^ Davis, Seth (September 11, 2023). "Fox Sports in Negotiations to Hold a New Men's College Basketball Tournament in Las Vegas in Late March (Exclusive)". The Messenger. Archived from the original on October 12, 2023. Retrieved May 31, 2024.

## External Links

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College Basketball Crown website

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NCAA men's college basketball tournaments

Division I|

| Early season|

* Acrisure Classic
* Acrisure Holiday Invitational
* Acrisure Invitational
* Arizona Tip-Off
* Bahamas Championship
* Battle 4 Atlantis
* Big 5 Classic
* Boardwalk Battle
* Cancún Challenge
* Cayman Islands Classic
* Charleston Classic
* Diamond Head Classic
* Empire Classic
* ESPN Events Invitational
* Fort Myers Tip-Off
* Greenbrier Tip-Off
* Gulf Coast Showcase
* Hall of Fame Tip Off
* Legends Classic
* Maui Invitational
* Myrtle Beach Invitational
* Nassau Championship
* NIT Season Tip-Off
* Paradise Jam
* Phil Knight Invitational
* Players Era Festival
* Rady Children's Invitational
* SoCal Challenge
* Sunshine Slam
* Vegas Showdown

|

Defunct
Early season|

* All-College Basketball Classic
* Asheville Championship
* Belfast Classic
* Coaches vs. Cancer Classic
* Corpus Christi Coastal Classic
* Crossover Classic
* DirecTV Classic
* Emerald Coast Classic
* Great Alaska Shootout
* Global Sports Classic
* Jacksonville Classic
* Jamaica Classic
* Las Vegas Classic
* Las Vegas Invitational
* Northern Classic
* Puerto Rico Tip-Off
* Savannah Invitational
* Southland Basketball Tip-Off
* Vancouver Showcase

Conference
postseason|

* ACC
* America East
* The American
* ASUN
* Atlantic 10
* Big 12
* Big East
* Big Sky
* Big South
* Big Ten
* Big West
* CAA
* Conference USA
* Horizon
* Ivy League
* MAAC
* MEAC
* Mid-American
* Missouri Valley
* Mountain West
* Northeast
* Ohio Valley
* Pac-12
* Patriot
* SEC
* Southern
* Southland
* SWAC
* Sun Belt
* Summit
* WAC
* West Coast

Defunct
Conference
postseason|

* American South
* American West
* Big Eight
* East Coast
* Great Midwest
* Great West
* Metro
* Southwest

Postseason|

* NCAA Division I Tournament
* National Invitation Tournament
* College Basketball Invitational
* CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament
* College Basketball Crown (starting in 2025)

Defunct
Postseason|

* The Basketball Classic
* Vegas 16
* National Commissioners Invitational Tournament
* National Intercollegiate Basketball Tournament

Division II|

| Conference
postseason|

* CCAA
* CACC
* Carolinas
* East Coast
* Great American
* GLIAC
* GLVC
* G-MAC
* Great Northwest
* Gulf South
* Lone Star
* Mountain East
* Northeast-10
* Northern Sun
* Pacific West
* Peach Belt
* PSAC
* RMAC
* South Atlantic
* SIAC
* Sunshine State

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Defunct
Conference
postseason|

* Heartland

Postseason|

* NCAA Division II Tournament

Division III|

| Conference
postseason|

* Allegheny Mountain
* American Rivers
* American Southwest
* Atlantic East
* C2C
* Centennial
* CUNYAC
* CCIW
* CCS
* Commonwealth Coast
* Empire 8
* Great Northeast
* HCAC
* Landmark
* Liberty
* Little East
* MASCAC
* Michigan
* Middle Atlantic (MAC Commonwealth and MAC Freedom)
* Midwest
* Minnesota
* NESCAC
* NEWMAC
* New Jersey
* North Atlantic
* NACC
* NCAC
* Northwest
* Ohio
* Old Dominion
* Presidents'
* SAA
* SCIAC
* SLIAC
* Skyline
* SCAC
* SUNYAC
* United East
* Upper Midwest
* USA South
* Wisconsin

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Defunct
Conference
postseason|

* ACAA
* Colonial States
* NECC

Postseason|

* NCAA Division III Tournament
* ECAC Tournaments

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