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The NCAA Men's Basketball Championship, also known as March Madness, is the annual Division I Men’s Basketball tournament that began in 1939. Composed of 68 men’s college basketball teams across the U.S., the highly-anticipated competition determines the National Champion through a series of single-elimination games over three weeks. The tournament format follows four regional brackets with teams ranked from one to 16, plus an additional eight teams competing to claim the last four main bracket slots during the First Four Games. For the 2025 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship, the First Four games start on March 18 and 19, followed by the First and Second Rounds between March 20 and 23, Sweet Sixteen on March 27 and 28 and Elite Eight on March 29 and 30. For the fifth time, the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas will host the Final Four and National Championship games, on April 5 and 7 respectively.
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I'll be succinct: March Madness is the best athletic event in the world. And the newly opened Caesar's Arena in Detroit was a great venue in which to watch the teams play. Great sight lines without obstructions and a broad array of tempting foods helped to make the days a truly wonderful experience. I imagine that watching hockey in the arena must also be a great experience.
Never been to any round of March Madness before and wanted to try one close to home. Dayton was only a 90 minute drive for me, so I settled on it. Took my dad with me and we had a great time! University of Dayton Arena is a great place to watch a ball game. The arena is easily the coolest college arena I have ever been inside. The games were all fun to watch as well.
Other than UMBC and va, games were disappointing. Could see everything from on high
Pittsburgh did an almost flawless job of hosting -- two issues: 1. PARKING was horrendous on Thursday, with almost no police presence to direct people to where to park. We wound up getting to the arena 45 minutes early, and still missing the entire first half of the first game looking for somewhere to park (and wound up parking more than a mile away). 2. SATURDAY - why they would start the games at noon, which directly conflicted with the St Patricks Day parade that was going on two blocks from the arena, is anybody's guess. In any case, once again parking was horrible, and now with all the street closures, getting around the city was also horrible. If Pittsburgh gets the NCAAs again, they HAVE TO SOLVE THESE ISSUES!
Have been attending NCAA games for 15+ plus years and received the worst pre-sale tickets ever. We purchased 5 tickets and 2 of them had obstructed views with a post in our way that only allowed us to view half the court.
I was disappointed in the seat selection when purchasing tickets. I have been attending this event for 20+ years and selected seats early and had good ones. This year, unless you purchased the PRIME SPORTs package your only seat selections were in the upper, upper level. $$$$ Additionally, it is frustrating that you cannot keep a bottle cap on your bottled beverage and they are taken when you purchase them.
Great seats even though they were very high up! We went to see UVA and UNC and both had a terrible loss.
I thought the men’s South region tournament was very well attended and went with out any problems. Spectrum center is one of the nicest centers around... personnel was courteous and Helpful..... everyone was made to feel safe and welcomed. We think all the fans that came here from other areas loved and thought Charlotte was a beautiful city! My team lost in the second round ....felt sad but enjoyed other fans and was happy for their success.
Tournament experience was fantastic. Fun filled weekend.
21 years attending March Madness games. Venue was terrific! Seats (padded) and views were excellent, friendliness of staff was outstanding, location was freaking fantastic - right on Honkey Tonk row (Broadway) so great atractions before and after games. Although the event was probably 95% sold out, the concourses were easy to navigate. PLUS PLUS - this was the first March Madness games that had a full service bar available to all and outdoor areas with TVs and beer. GREAT EXPERIENCE. Our favorite is Greensboro though as it was our first games we attended...
nice venue, access to many sights, restaurants Charlotte has many user friendly options for its' fans
GREAT GAMES GOOD TIME CAN'T WAIT UNTIL NEXT YEAR FIRST AND SECOND ROUNDS
The event was super and the facility was very nice. Unfortunately the concession area on the upper level was not ready for the crowd. Too bad since everything else was very well done!
Upon first walking into the Spectrum, one’s first opinion is that the huge block of multi-screen video displays hanging over the court looks pretty impressive. Very large, bright, really state of the art. But after watching 6 games there over 2 days it was very obvious that it is both lacking some key technologies and it was used very poorly. The replays for every big play took way too long to come up....in most cases they were being showed during live action after the other team got to the other end of the court. It was minutes before we saw replays of any video reviews, looking for who touched a ball last or a possible flagrant foul. And how can there be no possession arrow on any of the displays? There was a key held ball late in a close game, and you had to wait for a minute to see who the refs were going to give the ball to. Really, no possession arrow. When the clock goes under 1 minute to play, it can’s update quick enough to smoothly show tenths of seconds. The clock just stutters every time. It’s like be teleported back to the 1980s. Finally, whoever was making the decision of when to have a live peak in on other NCAA basketball games clearly has no knowledge of basketball. Let’s show you the teams during a time out at a site with 5 seconds to go in a one point game.....and show them for a good two full minutes with no action, but then cut away just as that game was going to end. There were more boos from the stands about the timing of the cut away then there were for any play of the game. And video segment at halftime with the game’s highlights....wow, who picked those? Clips of three average plays, then a clip of cheerleaders, a clip of the band, a clip of some random fan in the stands, and then a 3/4 court heave that missed by 10 feet at the half time buzzer. First half highlights, really??? Then the mile long bathroom lines that took forever. Other than that, a nice, modern, clean stadium with good court views....
We ordered tickets on Sunday and pick up at will call was the only option.We had to wait over an hour in the will call line to pick up the tickets and missed the 1st half on the 1st game. With the fees we had to pay this shouldn't of happened.
We got to the game 30-40 minutes before game time and the line fto pick up will call tickets was over an hour wait. We missed the first half of the first game. Ticketmaster did not have mobile ticketing so the only option was to pick up tix at will call. The venue did a horrible job of managing the will call situation. It was awe full and with so many out of Townes , was a poor reflection on Charlotte, the venue and event. Really shoddy management.
Great games as usual in first rounds. UMBC who knew bye bye Virginia oh and UNC
Awesome venue, awesome atmosphere. Can't wait for LCA to host the NCAA first and second round again!
Venue could not handle the crowd entering arena for Session 2. Resulted in missing tip off NCAA decision to start Session 3 at 5:10 - had to miss games to drive back to Atlanta. Fans lost to TV
No alcohol and poor venue. Concourses were way too crowded. Inadequate restrooms.