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March Madness 2020: Complete schedule, dates

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Here is the March Madness schedule for the 2020 NCAA tournament, including the Final Four and NCAA championship game in Atlanta.

First, the TL/DR version:

Selection Sunday —March 15, 2020
First Four — Tuesday and Wednesday, March 17-18, 2020
NCAA Tournament Round 1 — Thursday, March 19, and Friday, March 20, 2020
NCAA Tournament Round 2 — Saturday, March 21, and Sunday, March 22, 2020
Sweet 16 — Thursday, March 26, and Friday, March 27, 2020
Elite 8 — Saturday, March 28, and Sunday, March 29, 2020
Final Four — Saturday, April 4, 2020
2020 NCAA championship game — Monday, April 6, 2020

The 2020 tournament field will be revealed on Selection Sunday — when the full field of 68, seeding, and bracket are released — on March 15, 2020.

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Below is the full, detailed schedule. We will update it here with TV as soon as it is available. The 2020 NCAA tournament will stream live on March Madness Live.

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2020 NCAA tournament schedule and locations:

Dates	Round	City, STATE	Host(s)	Facility
March 15	Selection Sunday	N/A	N/A	N/A
March 17-18	First Four	Dayton, OH	University of Dayton	UD Arena
March 19/21	1st/2nd Rounds	Albany, NY	Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference	Times Union Center
March 19/21	1st/2nd Rounds	Spokane, WA	University of Idaho	Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena
March 19/21	1st/2nd Rounds	St. Louis, MO	Missouri Valley Conference	Enterprise Center
March 19/21	1st/2nd Rounds	Tampa, FL	University of South Florida	Amalie Arena
March 20/22	1st/2nd Rounds	Greensboro, NC	Atlantic Coast Conference	Greensboro Coliseum
March 20/22	1st/2nd Rounds	Omaha, NE	Creighton University	CenturyLink Center Omaha
March 20/22	1st/2nd Rounds	Sacramento, CA	Sacramento State University	Golden 1 Center
March 20/22	1st/2nd Rounds	Cleveland, OH	Mid-American Conference/Cleveland State	Quicken Loans Arena
March 26/28	Midwest Regional	Indianapolis, IN	Horizon League/IUPUI	Lucas Oil Stadium
March 26/28	West Regional	Los Angeles, CA	Pepperdine University	STAPLES Center
March 27/29	South Regional	Houston, TX	University of Houston	Toyota Center
March 27/29	East Regional	New York, NY	St. John’s University/Big East Conference	Madison Square Garden
April 4/6	Final Four	Atlanta, GA	Georgia Institute of Technology	Mercedes-Benz Stadium

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The NCAA tournament begs with Selection Sunday, when the selection committee announces all 68 tournament teams, and ends with the Final Four and championship game three weeks later.

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Here are the future sites for the NCAA Division I men's basketball Final Four:

Final Four Dates	Hosts	City, State	Facility
April 3/5, 2021	Horizon League, IUPUI	Indianapolis, IN	Lucas Oil Stadium
April 2/4, 2022	Tulane University	New Orleans, LA	Mercedes-Benz Superdome
April 1/3, 2023	Rice University, University of Houston, Houston Baptist University, Texas Southern University	Houston, TX	NRG Stadium
April 6/8, 2024	Arizona State University	Phoenix, AZ	State Farm Stadium
April 5/7, 2025	University of Texas at San Antonio, University of the Incarnate Word	San Antonio, TX	Alamodome
April 4/6, 2026	Horizon League, IUPUI	Indianapolis, IN	Lucas Oil Stadium

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