Twenty-two conferences held tournaments, while the other ten awarded their automatic bid on the basis of being the league's regular-season champion.

The first two rounds were held on campus sites (the home court of the seeded team, with the exception of Creighton.

Due to basketball events already being scheduled in Omaha, the Bluejays had to head to Chapel Hill, North Carolina to play the first and second round.).

All first and second-round games were broadcast on local networks or digital feeds [Longhorn Network (Austin), SEC+ (College Station, Gainesville), BYUtv (Provo), ESPN3 (Chapel Hill, Lawrence, Louisville, College Station- non-SEC, Austin- non-Texas, Gainesville- non-SEC), TheW.tv (Provo- non BYU), P12 Digital feeds (Los Angeles, Stanford, Seattle), and Big Ten Digital (Minneapolis, University Park, Madison, Lincoln].

ESPN3 will carry all the Regional Semis except one game in San Diego which will be shown on ESPNU.