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PARK CITY, Utah — The NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Committee has approved Indianapolis as the venue for the 2026 Division II and III men’s basketball championship games, as well as the semifinals and finals of the National Invitational Tournament, with all five games scheduled on the same weekend as the men’s Final Four. which in the past was awarded to the city.
The Final Four will take place on April 4 and 6, 2026 at Lucas Oil Stadium, an announcement that was first made in 2018. This will be the ninth time Indianapolis has hosted the premier school basketball event. The Horizon League and IU Indy will serve as co-hosts. Today’s announcement means that 3 more champions will be crowned in Circle City this weekend. NIT will play its semifinals on Thursday evening, April 2 at Butler’s Hinkle Fieldhouse, and the name test is scheduled for Sunday, April 5 at a time and at one location. to be announced.
Sunday’s schedule will also include Divisions II and III championship games, which will be played at the Gainbridge Fieldhouse center. This is the second time the NCAA will host all three of its men’s basketball championships over the course of a weekend in the same city. The first time this happened in Atlanta in 2013. The 3 NCAA women’s basketball championships were held in the same city on the same weekend in 2016 in Indianapolis and then back to Dallas in 2023.
“This will be a great birthday party for boys’ school basketball in all 3 divisions of Indy,” said Dan Gavitt, NCAA senior vice president of basketball. “When we did this in 2013, around 8,000 enthusiasts were watching the Division II and III championship games. , and the final two nights of this year’s NIT at Hinkle Fieldhouse drew more than 9,000 sold-out enthusiasts. It will be a great opportunity for the schools’ student-athletes, as well as a show for Indiana’s legendary school basketball enthusiasts.
The committee also spent a lot of time discussing the principles and procedures for team selection, classification and classification, stating that the 2025 championship will feature an automatic qualifier from each of the 31 meetings to accompany the 37 most sensible general groups, as composed. our minds through the committee. The team’s evaluation will move forward by adding two metrics, as the committee voted to include Torvik and Wins Against Bubble (WAB) ratings on the team’s sheets.
“The committee has valued other knowledge issues and metrics to help them in their evaluation process, and any of those metrics have been increasingly referenced by members in recent years,” Gavitt said. “Adding them to the team sheet ensures that all 12 members have easy access to this knowledge. Torvik’s ranking, along with BPI and KenPom, give the committee 3 predictive scores, while WAB, Strength of Record and KPI give them 3 outcome-based metrics, which, in addition to the NET, will gain advantages for the team’s evaluation process. “
The committee also decided to appoint Keith Gill, commissioner of the Sun Belt Conference, as vice chair of the committee for the 2024-25 season. He will also be president for the 2025-2026 season. Gill has been with Sun Belt for five years and in the past worked for the Atlantic 10 Conference, where he was Associate Executive Commissioner. He also served as athletic director at Richmond and American, and spent five years at each campus. Gill also worked in the athletic departments of Oklahoma and Vanderbilt and has two Oklahoma County Athletic Departments. Gill, a 4-year football letterer at Duke, graduated from the school in 1994 and earned a master’s degree in Oklahoma.
“It is a great honor to serve on this committee with a great organization of colleagues who serve as stewards of the wonderful game of school basketball,” Gill said. “I’m looking forward to running with all of them, especially Bubba Cunningham, our president. for next season, to whom I will be vice president. Being elected to this position and as president of the 2026 championship is one of the highlights of my professional career. It’s especially satisfying to be able to do it in a year where we’re going to host championships for all 3 divisions, plus NIT, in what will be an incredible weekend.
The committee also obtained updates from representatives from TNT and CBS Sports, and discussed various tournament operations and ticketing issues, long-term venue selections and refereeing matters, adding the adoption of the generation of umpire microphones to speak throughout the tournament, starting in 2025, to increase the effects of video reviews on the broadcast audience and fans on the site.
The NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Committee held its annual summer meeting this week. A summary of the convention will be distributed at the conclusion of Thursday afternoon.