The first conference tournament for the 2025-26 college basketball season began Monday with a play-in game in the Horizon League. No. 10 seed Cleveland State defeated No. 11 seed IU Indianapolis 101-93 to advance to the first round of the Horizon League tournament.
Cleveland State will face No. 1 seed Wright State on Wednesday with a trip to the second round on the line.
While all Power Five leagues will finish the regular season this week and begin their respective conference tournament next week, there will be plenty of postseason action starting on Tuesday. The Patriot League and the Sun Belt will be the second and third conferences to start postseason play.
In the Patriot League, Navy earned the No. 1 overall seed and earned a first-round bye. Navy will face the winner of No. 9 seed Army and No. 8 Bucknell on Thursday. No. 7 seed Lafayette will face No. 10 Holy Cross in the opening round, with the winner of that game getting a date with No. 2 seed Lehigh.
Troy captured the Sun Belt title after defeating UL Monroe to earn the No. 1 seed. Marshall earned the No. 2 seed and the bye into the semifinals, despite losing to Georgia Southern. There was a six-way tie (with 11-7 conference records) for second place in the conference standings.
Because of the Sun Belt’s tournament format which places the top two seeds in the conference’s semifinals, Troy and Marshall will need to win just one game next weekend (March 8) to advance to the Sun Belt Tournament championship game. The tournament gets started in Pensacola, Florida, when No. 14 seed UL Monroe faces No. 11 seed Old Dominion before No. 13 seed Georgia State meets No. 12 seed Louisiana.
When conference tournament results roll in, we’ll be keeping track of them here as teams begin to claim automatic bids to the NCAA Tournament with the first ticket punched on Saturday when the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament crowns its champion with No. 1 seed Tennessee State and No. 2 seed Morehead State expected to battle for the conference’s AQ spot in the 2026 NCAA Tournament.
Monday’s conference tournament results
Tuesday’s conference tournament schedule
Wednesday’s conference tournament schedule
2025-26 conference tournament champions
| CONFERENCE | DATES | LOCATION | CHAMPIONSHIP (TV) / CHAMPION |
| America East | March 7, 10, 14 | Higher seed hosts | March 14, 11 a.m. ESPN2 |
| American | March 11-15 | Birmingham, Ala. | March 15, 3:15 p.m. ESPN |
| Atlantic 10 | March 11-15 | Pittsburgh, Pa. | March 15, 1 p.m. CBS |
| ACC | March 10-14 | Charlotte, N.C. | March 14, 8:30 p.m. ESPN |
| ASUN | March 4,6-8 | Jacksonville, Fla. | March 8, 2 p.m. ESPN2 |
| Big 12 | March 10-14 | Kansas City, Mo. | March 14, 6 p.m. ESPN |
| Big East | March 11-14 | New York City | March 14, 6:30 p.m. FOX |
| Big Sky | March 7-11 | Boise, Idaho | March 11, 11:30 p.m. ESPN2 |
| Big South | March 4, 6-8 | Johnson City, Tenn. | March 8, 12 p.m. ESPN2 |
| Big Ten | March 10-15 | Chicago | March 15, 3:30 p.m. CBS |
| Big West | March 11-14 | Henderson, Nev. | March 14, 10 p.m. ESPN2 |
| CAA | March 6-10 | Washington, D.C. | March 10, 7 p.m. CBS Sports Network |
| Conference USA | March 10-14 | Huntsville, Ala. | March 14, 8:30 p.m. CBS Sports Network |
| Horizon League | March 2,4,8-10 | Indianapolis | March 10, 7 p.m. ESPN |
| Ivy League | March 14-15 | Ithaca, N.Y. | March 15, 12 p.m. ESPN2 |
| MAAC | March 5-10 | Atlantic City, N.J. | March 10, 9 p.m. ESPN2 |
| MAC | March 12-14 | Cleveland | March 14, 8 p.m. ESPN2 |
| MEAC | March 11-14 | Norfolk, Va. | March 14, 1 p.m. ESPN2 |
| Missouri Valley | March 5-8 | St. Louis | March 8, 12 p.m. CBS |
| Mountain West | March 11-14 | Las Vegas | March 14, 6 p.m. CBS |
| Northeast | March 4,7,10 | Higher seed hosts | March 10, 7 p.m. ESPN2 |
| Ohio Valley | March 4-7 | Evansville, Ind. | March 7, 8 p.m. ESPN2 |
| Patriot League | March 3,5,8,11 | Higher seed hosts | March 11, 7 p.m. CBS Sports Network |
| SEC | March 11-15 | Nashville, Tenn. | March 15, 1 p.m. ESPN |
| SoCon | March 6-9 | Asheville, N.C. | March 9, 7 p.m. ESPN |
| Southland | March 8-11 | Lake Charles, La. | March 11, 5 p.m. ESPN2 |
| SWAC | March 9-14 | Atlanta | March 14, 7:30 p.m. ESPNU |
| Summit League | March 4-8 | Sioux Falls, S.D. | March 8, 9 p.m. CBS Sports Network |
| Sun Belt | March 3-9 | Pensacola, Fla. | March 9, 6 p.m. ESPN2 |
| West Coast | March 5-10 | Las Vegas | March 10, 9 p.m. ESPN |
| WAC | March 11-14 | Las Vegas | March 14, 12 a.m. ESPN2 |