March Madness 2025: Discover which teams made the cut | NCAA Tournament brackets revealed

This weekend will bring each of the college basketball conference tournaments to a close, officially kick-starting the beginning of March Madness.

We now know the identity of most of the 68 teams that will be competing for the 2025 NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship. Of those, 31 qualified by winning their respective conference titles and another 37 will be hand-picked by the NCAA committee.

The final field and the 2025 bracket will be confirmed at Selection Show on Sunday, March 16 at 6pm ET. For now, here’s what we know about the teams that are likely to make it...

Automatic qualifiers as conference winners: Bryant (America East), Duke (ACC), Lipscomb (ASUN), Houston (Big 12), St. John’s (Big East), Montana (Big Sky), High Point (Big South), UC San Diego (Big West), UNC Wilmington (CAA), Liberty (Conference USA), Robert Morris (Horizon), Mount St. Mary’s (MAAC), Akron (MAC), Norfolk State (MEAC), Drake (Missouri Valley), Colorado State (Mountain West), Saint Francis (Northeast), SIU Edwardsville (Ohio Valley), American (Patriot), Wofford (Southern), McNeese (Southland), Alabama State (SWAC), Omaha (Summit), Troy (Sun Belt), Gonzaga (West Coast), Grand Canyon (WAC)

Likely for March Madness selection: Louisville, Clemson (ACC, 2); Michigan State, Michigan, Wisconsin, Purdue, Maryland, Oregon, UCLA, Illinois (Big 10, 8); Iowa State, Texas Tech, Arizona, Kansas, BYU (Big 12, 5); Marquette, Creighton, UConn (Big East, 3); Auburn, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Texas A&M, Kentucky, Mississippi State, Missouri, Ole Miss (SEC, 9); Saint Mary’s, New Mexico (Other, 2)

The identities of all 68 teams in March Madness will be confirmed at Selection Sunday later today, with a draw held to decide the all-important bracket for this year’s tournament. Clark Kellogg, Jay Wright and Seth Davis will join Adam Zucker in New York to discuss all the action on CBS Sports.

March Madness schedule for 2025

Although were still waiting for the specifics, we do already know the format of this year’s postseason tournament. The action will begin on Tuesday, March 18 and runs through to the Final Four in San Antonio in early April.

Last year’s tournament was the 85h edition of the NCAA competition and culminated with a historic win for the UConn Huskies, who defeated the Purdue Boilermakers 75-60 in the championship game.

In doing so, UConn became the first team since Florida in 2007 to retain the college basketball championship and they retain hopes of making it three in a row. However they are now projected to be the No. 8 seed in the south after missing out on the Big East title.

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