TBT 2025 Tournament Announces Wichita, Lexington and Syracuse as Regional Hosts

The Basketball Tournament (TBT), the 64-team, $1 million winner-take-all event, has announced three regional locations for the summer event with eight-team brackets taking place in Wichita, Kansas; Lexington, Kentucky, and Syracuse, New York.

Hosted by Wichita State University and supported by Visit Wichita and headlined by WSU’s alumni squad, the Aftershocks, The Basketball Tournament will return to Wichita from July 18—23 at Charles Koch Arena. It will be the sixth year Wichita has hosted a TBT Regional. Wichita State owns three of TBT’s top five attendances and six of TBT’s top 10.

“We are thrilled to bring this electrifying basketball tournament back to Wichita for a sixth time,” said Josh Howell, vice president of sports development for Visit Wichita. “This year’s roster is sure to excite Wichitans and basketball fans in the region and continue to create an electric basketball atmosphere inside Charles Koch Arena.”

La Familia, the Kentucky alumni team, will return as the featured team in the eight-team Lexington Regional hosted by the University of Kentucky at Memorial Coliseum July 18–23.

“We can’t wait to welcome back some Wildcat legends for TBT, because last summer was electric,” said Kentucky men’s basketball head coach Mark Pope. “I know Big Blue Nation and our team will be ready to help create an epic environment in Memorial and help the guys chase a championship.”

The 2025 Syracuse Regional will be played at SRC Arena at Onondaga Community College from July 18-23. Syracuse will host a TBT regional for the fourth time this summer, previously hosting the event in 2019, 2022, and 2023.

“We’re excited to have TBT to come back to Syracuse,” said former Syracuse men’s basketball head coach Jim Boeheim. “We really missed it last summer. It’s such a fun tournament, and it’s really great when you win like we did a few years ago. People in Syracuse really enjoy it.”

The winner of the Syracuse and Wichita Regionals will advance to the quarterfinals on July 29 while the Lexington Regional winner will play in the quarterfinals on July 28. The semifinals will be held on July 31,and the TBT Championship will be played August 3.

For the first time, TBT will give each host team the opportunity to have home court advantage for the quarterfinals, semifinals and the $1 million championship game. Should two regional hosts face off, the tiebreaker will be determined by which host sells 4,000 tickets the fastest. Tickets will go on sale May 6.