2025 NCAA Tournament scores, schedule: March Madness bracket, game dates, locations, tip times, TV channels​on March 23, 2025 at 1:20 am

Imagine somebody telling you five years ago that St. John’s and Arkansas would face each other in the 2025 NCAA Tournament — and the coach of the Red Storm would be Rick Pitino and the Razorbacks would be John Calipari. It’s a wild turn of events given that, five years ago, Pitino was coaching in Greece while Calipari was set to enroll the nation’s top-ranked recruiting class at Kentucky (and seemed destined to someday retire there).

A lot has changed in the past five years, obviously.

Pitino returned stateside, won two MAAC championships at Iona and then took the job at St. John’s, where guided the Red Storm to a Big East regular-season title and Big East Tournament title this season. Meantime, Calipari was nudged out of Kentucky after last March’s loss to Oakland in the first-round of 2024 NCAA Tournament, and he guided his new school, Arkansas, to an at-large bid in the 2025 NCAA Tournament following an 0-5 start in the SEC.

Those men will coach against each other Saturday.

Exactly five people have ever coached the Kentucky Wildcats to a national championship – and 40% of the men on that list will coach against each other in Providence on Saturday. (Meantime, Kentucky is in Milwaukee and coached by Mark Pope, who once played for Pitino at UK.)

The dates, sites and scores for every 2025 NCAA Tournament game are listed below culminating with the Final Four and NCAA championship game on April 5 and 7 at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.

The road to the Final Four is a long but worthwhile journey, so be sure to check in often as CBS Sports will update this page every time the NCAA Tournament schedule is adjusted. Games will be aired across CBS, TNT, TBS and truTV and available on March Madness Live. All games airing on CBS will also be available to Paramount+ subscribers.

Second round

Saturday, March 22
Rupp Arena (Lexington), Amica Mutual Pavilion (Providence), Intrust Bank Arena (Wichita), Ball Arena (Denver)

Sunday, March 23
Climate Pledge Arena (Seattle), Rocket Arena (Cleveland), Fiserv Forum (Milwaukee), Lenovo Center (Raleigh)

Sweet 16

Thursday, March 27 — 6:30 p.m. start (CBS, TBS)
Prudential Center (Newark), Chase Center (San Francisco)

Friday, March 28 — 6:30 p.m. start (CBS, TBS)
State Farm Arena (Atlanta), Lucas Oil Stadium (Indianapolis)

Elite Eight

Saturday, March 29 — 6:09 p.m. start (TBS)
Prudential Center (Newark), Chase Center (San Francisco)

Sunday, March 30 — 2:20 p.m. start (CBS)
State Farm Arena (Atlanta), Lucas Oil Stadium (Indianapolis)

Final Four

Saturday, April 5 — 6:09 p.m. start (CBS)
Alamodome (San Antonio)

National Championship

Monday, April 7 — 8:50  p.m. (CBS)
Alamodome (San Antonio)

First Four

Tuesday, March 18
UD Arena (Dayton)

Wednesday, March 19
UD Arena (Dayton)

First round

Friday, March 21
Climate Pledge Arena (Seattle), Rocket Arena (Cleveland), Fiserv Forum (Milwaukee), Lenovo Center (Raleigh)

Friday, March 21
Climate Pledge Arena (Seattle), Rocket Arena (Cleveland), Fiserv Forum (Milwaukee), Lenovo Center (Raleigh)