The following tables provide information on the 2026 NCAA Tournament subregional (first and second round) and regional (Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight) sites, listing the city, venue, host team/conference, and days on which games are played.
2026 SUBREGIONAL SITES
| CITY | VENUE | HOST | DAYS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buffalo, NY | KeyBank Center | MAAC | Thu/Sat |
| Greenville, SC | Bon Secours Wellness Arena | Furman | Thu/Sat |
| Oklahoma City, OK | Paycom Center | Big 12 | Thu/Sat |
| Portland, OR | Moda Center | Oregon St. | Thu/Sat |
| Philadelphia, PA | Xfinity Mobile Arena | Saint Joseph’s | Fri/Sun |
| San Diego, CA | Viejas Arena | San Diego St. | Fri/Sun |
| St. Louis, MO | Enterprise Center | Missouri Valley | Fri/Sun |
| Tampa, FL | Benchmark International Arena | South Florida | Fri/Sun |
2026 REGIONAL SITES
| CITY | VENUE | HOST | DAYS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Houston, TX (South) | Toyota Center | Rice | Thu/Sat |
| San Jose, CA (West) | SAP Center | San Jose St. | Thu/Sat |
| Chicago, IL (Midwest) | United Center | Big Ten | Fri/Sun |
| Washington, DC (East) | Capital One Arena | Georgetown | Fri/Sun |
The spreadsheets below list out the distances from each of the eight subregional and four regional sites for the 2026 NCAA Tournament (ordered from closest to farthest) to each of the 361 Division I men’s basketball schools eligible to play in the tournament, according to driving mileage.
Four teams are ineligible for the 2026 NCAA Tournament due to DI transition rules and do not appear on either sheet. These teams are: Le Moyne, Mercyhurst, New Haven, West Georgia.
Some teams do not have all eight subregional or all four regional sites listed in their respective rows. These missing sites are ineligible to host the team in that row due to principles that disallow teams from playing on their host/home court, or because of a conflict of schedule (e.g., a site hosting its games on a Sunday, conflicting with BYU’s refusal to play games on Sundays).
UD Arena in Dayton, OH, also appears at the bottom of both the subregional and regional sheets, as teams that are selected to play in the First Four (held annually at UD Arena) are placed into the bracket based on mileage distance from Dayton.
NOTE: All mileage distances are unofficial. Up until 2026, distances were determined using the official NCAA Mileage Calculator. However, the NCAA has since privatized the Mileage Calculator, removing public access. As such, the mileage numbers used below are calculated through OpenRouteService (ORS), which determines the shortest possible driving distance between tournament site addresses and DI school addresses listed in the NCAA Directory.
Thank you to the following bracketologists for helping to make the tournament site distances spreadsheets possible in 2026: @MBBracketology, @OtterBrackets, @TSBBracketology, @801bracketology, and especially @AI_Bracketology for deriving an automated process and saving countless hours of manual data entry!