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The NCAA Tournament is played at multiple venues across the country. The 2022 First and Second round games will be played at venues stretching from KeyBank Center in Buffalo, New York to Viejas Arena in San Diego, California, with the First Four games being held in their traditional Dayton, Ohio location. 2022 Preliminary Round Men’s Basketball Sites 2022 Dates Host(s) Round City, State Venue March 15-16 University of Dayton First Four Dayton, OH UD Arena March 17 & 19 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference 1st/2nd Rounds Buffalo, NY KeyBank Center. Stream FREE Live NCAA Games Enjoy live NCAA games & channels in HD/4K. Watch on Any Device Stream on desktop, tablet and mobile devices. Record & Watch Games Later Don't miss a game ever again. Watch Live; Watch Live; Watch Live; Watch Live; Watch Live; All Games.

The 2020 NCAA Tournament kicks off this month, with a host of great sports cities serving as regional sites for the madness that March always brings.

NCAA Tournament action kicks off with First Four games in Dayton, Ohio, on March 17 and 18, as it does every year. Two games each will be played on Tuesday and Wednesday before brackets are locked on Thursday morning.

If you’re traveling to the NCAA Tournament, it’s important to know how the sites work.

Six games are always played at each first- and second-round NCAA Tournament site. Two pods of four teams travel to that site and play on Thursday or Friday, then the winners of the two games within each pod play at the same site two days later, on Saturday or Sunday. Each pod winner will advance to one of four regionals.

The regional final will feature three games as well — two Sweet 16 contests, then the winners face off in the Elite 8.

So if the top of the bracket has No. 1 Kansas vs. No. 16 Winthrop and No. 8 Marquette vs. No. 9 Arizona State in St. Louis on Thursday, the winners of those two games will play Saturday with a Sweet 16 spot on the line. The winners of the four pods then convene for the regional final at one site.

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March Madness Locations – First Four

Location: Dayton, OhioHost: University of DaytonDates: March 17-18

Two games will be played on both Tuesday and Wednesday in Dayton before the true first round of the tournament — these are better known as play-in games.

Since the field expanded to 68 teams in 2011, two play-in games feature two No. 11 seeds facing off. These are usually reserved for the last teams that qualified with at-large bids. The other two games will feature No. 16 seeds, which are automatic qualifiers (won their conference tournament) from the weaker leagues.

First and Second Rounds

The first- and second-round sites are not locked into a preset region, neither geographically nor by any bracket prediction setup you may see online.

Therefore, the St. Louis site isn’t guaranteed to host early games in the Midwest Regional. We don’t know until the full bracket is released on Selection Sunday, March 15.

St. Louis, Mo.

Host: Missouri Valley ConferenceVenue: Enterprise CenterDates: March 19, 21

Omaha, Neb.

Venue: CenturyLink Center OmahaDates: March 20, 22Host: Creighton University

Tampa, Fla.

Venue: Amalie ArenaDates: March 19, 21Host: University of South Florida

Greensboro, N.C.

Venue: Greensboro ColiseumDates: March 20, 22Host: ACC

Spokane, Wash.

Venue: Spokane Veterans Memorial ArenaDates: March 19, 21Host: University of Idaho

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Sacramento, Calif.

Venue: Golden 1 CenterDates: March 20, 22Host: Sacramento State University

Albany, N.Y.

Venue: Times Union CenterDates: March 19, 21Host: MAAC

Cleveland, Ohio

Venue: Rocket Mortgage FieldHouseDates: March 20, 22Host: MAC/Cleveland State

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Midwest Regional

Location: Indianapolis, Ind.Venue: Lucas Oil StadiumDates: March 26, 28Host: Horizon League/IUPUI

Indy is a favorite spot for the NCAA Tournament committee. Lucas Oil Stadium has hosted regional finals in 2009, 2013 and 2014 and the Final Four in 2010 and 2015.

It’s scheduled to host the Final Four again in 2021 and 2026.

West Regional

Location: Los Angeles, Calif.Venue: STAPLES CenterDates: March 26, 28Host: Pepperdine University

L.A. is also a frequent site for regional finals, hosting in 2013, 2015 and 2018. It has never hosted a Final Four, since those have mostly been played at larger venues like football stadiums.

Gonzaga has been a top 4 seed in the West Region in each of the last three years, and don’t expect that to change in 2020. The Bulldogs are 29-2, lead the country in offensive efficiency, are projected as No. 1 seed right now and will be favored in all their games in the West Coast Conference Tournament.

East Regional

Location: New York, N.Y.Venue: Madison Square GardenDates: March 27, 29Host: St. John’s/Big East

The Basketball Mecca will play host to the East Regional final this year. It’s hard to top that.

The Garden hosted 27 different NCAA Tournament weekends from 1943-1961 — sometimes it had a regional final and the Final Four in the same year.

But it took a long break, returning to the NCAA Tournament fold in 2014 for the East Regional finals. It also hosted in 2017, when a chaotic bracket ended with South Carolina beating Florida in the Elite Eight.

South Regional

Location: Houston, TexasVenue: Toyota CenterDates: March 27, 29Host: University of Houston

This is the first time the Toyota Center, home of the Houston Rockets, will host a regional final.

Houston has held plenty of NCAA Tournament games, though, with the Texans’ NRG Stadium hosting the Final Four in 2011 and 2016, when Villanova captured a national title over North Carolina on a buzzer-beating 3-pointer.

Final Four Date, Site

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Atlanta, Ga.Host: Georgia TechVenue: Mercedes-Benz StadiumDates: April 4, 6

The state-of-the-art Mercedes-Benz Stadium will host the Final Four for the first time, adding to a flood of marquee events Atlanta has gotten in the last few years. Those include the 2019 Super Bowl and 2018 College Football Playoff national title game.

The Georgia Dome last hosted the Final Four in 2013, when Louisville topped Michigan. Florida captured its second straight national title there in 2007, and Maryland won it all in Atlanta in 2002.

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