Final Four, NIT, DII & DIII Championship Game Times Revealed for 2025

Game times for Final Four, NIT, DII and DIII championship games announced.

The Men’s Final Four and National Invitation Tournament semifinals and championship games, along with the Division II and III title games, will take place at three Indianapolis venues over the course of five days, helping to choose four champions. It will be the first time that all four champions are chosen in one city.

The historic Hinkle Fieldhouse on the Butler campus will host the NIT national semifinals on Thursday, April 2. ESPN will broadcast the first game nationally starting at 7 p.m. ESPN2 will show the second game, which is set to start at 9:30 p.m.

The First Four kicks off the 87th NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship on March 17. Following two nights of play in Dayton, Ohio, the first and second round games will be held in Buffalo, New York; Greenville, South Carolina; Oklahoma City; Philadelphia; Portland, Oregon; San Diego; St. Louis; and Tampa, Florida on March 19–22. The Final Four returns to Indianapolis on Saturday, April 4, for the ninth time. The regional rounds will take place in Chicago, Houston, San Jose, California, and Washington, D.C., from March 26 to 29. Six p.m. is the time of the first national semifinal, and 8:30 p.m. is the time of the second match. The Indianapolis Colts’ home field, Lucas Oil Stadium, will host both games, which TBS will broadcast in collaboration with CBS Sports.

Basketball fans usually take a collective breather on Sunday during the Final Four. That won’t be the case in 2026, when the Indiana Pacers and Indiana Fever’s home field, Gainbridge Fieldhouse, will honor three champions on Easter Sunday. CBS will broadcast the Division II national championship, which kicks off the tripleheader at 1 p.m. ESPN+ will broadcast the Division III championship game at 4:30 p.m., and ESPN2 will broadcast the NIT final game at 8 p.m.

The national championship game, which takes place at Lucas Oil Stadium on Monday at 8:30 p.m., will wrap up the action. The title match will be televised on TBS.

The NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship will be televised by TNT Sports and CBS Sports, with CBS, TBS, TNT, and truTV providing exclusive live coverage of every game in its entirety.

You may get tickets to the Division II and III title games, the NIT semifinals and championship game, and every stage of the NCAA tournament at ncaa.com/mbbtickets.

“There isn’t a city in the country better suited to host these basketball championships than Indianapolis,” said Dan Gavitt, the NCAA’s senior vice president of basketball. “No state loves its basketball more than Indiana, so to be able to stage all of these games right in the heart of Indianapolis is going to create a memorable five-day weekend of college basketball for our community and state, fans who will be in town to visit, and for the athletes fortunate enough to get to play in these games.”