The national quarterfinal and semifinal rounds were to be held at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the site of the 2019 tournament finals, while the championship game was to be played at State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia, coinciding with the Division I Final Four.

As a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Johns Hopkins University announced that it had chosen not to admit spectators to the first and second-round games hosted there.

[1] On March 12, the NCAA announced that the remaining games of the tournament were cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The ex aequo list of the 16 teams remaining when the tournament was abandoned were Swarthmore, Hobart, Christopher Newport, Washington–St.

[4] The following 21 teams were awarded qualification for the tournament field by the NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Committee.