| Current Season: | 2025 College Basketball Crown |
| Pixels: | 200px |
| Sport: | College basketball |
| Founded: | 2024 |
| Inaugural: | 2025 |
| Teams: | 16 |
| Country: | United States |
| Venue: | MGM Grand Garden Arena T-Mobile Arena |
| Tv: | Fox, FS1 |
| Related Comps: | NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament |
| Founder: | Fox Sports AEG Global Partnerships |
The College Basketball Crown is an annual men's college basketball tournament operated by Fox Sports and AEG Global Partnerships. The inaugural tournament will be held in 2025, on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada.[1]
Two automatic qualifiers from each of the Big East, Big Ten and Big 12 conferences as well as ten at-large teams will be selected from the pool of teams that did not qualify for the NCAA tournament.[1] Although the official announcement of the launching of the tournament provided no details regarding selection criteria,[2] a September 2023 proposal for the tournament indicated that NET rankings would be used to select teams, which, at the time, were expected to include only Big East, Big Ten and Big 12 squads. Further, the proposal indicated that teams selected from those three conferences would be required to participate in the College Basketball Crown, which would make it impossible for them to also participate in the National Invitation Tournament, should they be selected or receive an automatic bid.[3]