2026–27 NCAA Division I men's basketball season

The 2026–27 NCAA Men's Division I men's basketball season will begin in November 2026 and will end in March 2027. It will begin with the First Four on March 16, 2026 and ending with the championship game at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan on April 5, 2026.^[1]

A total of 27 schools joined new conferences for the 2026–27 season. Of these, twenty six schools moved within Division I, and one begin classification To NCAA Division III.

The 2026–27 season is the last in their respective conferences for at least two Division I Schools

IU Indianapolis will leave the IU Indianapolis Gymnasium also known as The Jungle after 44 seasons there for the new James T. Morris Arena. The first game will be played there in November 2026.^[2]

The Top 25 from the AP and USA Today Coaching Polls

An upset is a victory by an underdog team. In the context of NCAA Division I men's basketball, this generally constitutes an unranked team defeating a team currently ranked in the top 25. This list will highlight those upsets of ranked teams by unranked teams as well as upsets of No. 1 teams. Rankings are from the AP poll.

In addition to the above-listed upsets in which an unranked team defeated a ranked team,

Bold type indicates winning teams in "true road-games"–i.e., those played on an opponent's home court (including secondary homes). Italics type indicates winning teams in an early season tournament (or event) Early season tournaments are tournaments played in the early season. Events are the tournaments with the same teams in it every year (even rivalry games).

Each of the 32 Division I athletic conferences will end it's regular season with a single elimination tournament. The team with the best regular-season record in each conference receives the number one seed in each tournament, with tiebreakers used as needed in the case of ties for the top seeding. Unless otherwise noticed, the winners of these tournaments will receive automatic invitations to the 2027 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.

The NCAA Tournament will tip off on March 16, 2027, with the First Four in Dayton, Ohio, and will conclude on April 5 at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan. A total of 68 teams will enter the tournament. 31 of those teams will earn automatic bids by winning their respective conferences tournaments. The remaining 37 teams will be granted "at-large" bids which were extended by the NCAA Selection Committee

Per the NCAA, an upset occurs when the losing team in an NCAA tournament game was seeded at least two seed lines better than the winning team.

Once the NCAA tournament field is announced, the National Invitational Tournament will invite 32 teams to participate The first three rounds will be played on campus sites, with the semifinals and final taking place at a site to be determined

2027 National Invitational Tournament

Once the NCAA tournament field is announced, the College Basketball Invitational will invite a number of teams to participate in the event, which will take place at a site to be determined

2027 College Basketball Invitational

Once the NCAA tournament field is announced, the College Basketball Crown tournament will invite 8 teams to participate in the event, the Big Ten, Big XII, and Big East Conferences will receive 2 bids each, the other 2 will be given at-large. The Crown will be held at various venues on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada the week before and during the final four.

2027 College Basketball Crown

Many teams will change coaches during the season and after it ends

The Top 30 NCAA Division I men's basketball teams by average home attendance.

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