March Madness 2025 Start Date And Location. March madness 2025 begins with first four games tuesday, march 18, in dayton, ohio, and ends with the final four on april 5 and 7 at the alamodome in san antonio. The ncaa hosts a bidding process for cities to get march madness.

The 2025 march madness tournament starts with selection sunday on march 16 as 68 teams will play in the 2025 ncaa tournament for men’s basketball. Georgia tech hosts the south regional of the ncaa ® division i men’s basketball championship.