{"id":892243,"date":"2026-03-18T02:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T07:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/2026-college-basketball-crown-schedule-bracket-teams\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T02:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T07:12:09","slug":"2026-college-basketball-crown-schedule-bracket-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/2026-college-basketball-crown-schedule-bracket-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 College Basketball Crown: Schedule, Bracket, Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"

Basketball <\/p>\n

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The College Basketball<\/a> Crown is back as the second-year event takes center stage in Las Vegas in early-April.<\/p>\n

This year’s edition will feature eight teams facing off in a postseason tournament, competing for NIL dollars. There are six automatic bids \u2014 two each reserved for the top teams in the NCAA Evaluation Tool<\/a> in the Big Ten<\/a>, Big East<\/a> and Big 12<\/a> \u2014 as well as two at-large participants.<\/p>\n

Here is the full schedule and key information for the College Basketball Crown<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Basketball Who is in the 2026 College Basketball Crown tournament?<\/h2>\n

The College Basketball Crown<\/a> tournament is made up of an 8-team field. Below are this year’s participants:<\/p>\n

Basketball Where is the 2026 College Basketball Crown?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The 2026 College Basketball Crown<\/a> will take place in Las Vegas at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in the quarterfinals, and T-Mobile Arena for the semifinals and final.<\/p>\n

Basketball Where can I watch the College Basketball Crown?<\/h2>\n

The 2026 College Basketball Crown will air on FOX and FS1, with the quarterfinals broadcast on FS1 and the semifinals and final on FOX.<\/p>\n

Crown Quarterfinals<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Wednesday, April 1<\/strong>
Oklahoma vs. Colorado (8 p.m. ET on FS1)
Baylor vs. Minnesota (10:30 p.m. ET on FS1)<\/p>\n

Thursday, April 2<\/strong>
Stanford vs. West Virginia (8 p.m. ET on FS1)
Rutgers vs. Creighton (10:30 p.m. ET FS1)<\/p>\n

Crown Semifinals<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Saturday, April 4<\/strong>
1:30 p.m. ET: TBD vs. TBD (FOX)
4 p.m. ET: TBD vs. TBD (FOX)<\/p>\n

Crown Finals<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Sunday, April 5<\/strong>
5:30 p.m. ET: TBD vs. TBD (FOX)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Read More<\/a> Nancie Roberie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Basketball The College Basketball Crown is back as the second-year event takes center stage in Las Vegas in early-April. This year’s edition will feature eight teams facing off in a postseason tournament, competing for NIL dollars. There are six automatic bids \u2014 two each reserved for the top teams in the NCAA Evaluation Tool in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":892244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124942,3681,1850],"tags":[16302],"class_list":{"0":"post-892243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"category-basketball","9":"category-college","10":"tag-nba"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=892243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/892244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}