2025 College Basketball Crown
| Season | 2024–25 | ||||
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| Teams | 16 | ||||
| Finals site | T-Mobile Arena, Paradise, Nevada | ||||
| Champions | Nebraska (1st title) | ||||
| Runner-up | UCF (1st title game) | ||||
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| Winning coach | Fred Hoiberg (1st title) | ||||
| MVP | Juwan Gary (Nebraska) | ||||
| Attendance | 20,045 (Tournament) 3,314 (Final) | ||||
| Top scorer | Brice Williams (Nebraska) (93 points) | ||||
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The 2025 College Basketball Crown (CBC) was a single-elimination, fully-bracketed men's college basketball postseason tournament featuring sixteen National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I teams not selected to participate in the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. It commenced on March 31 and concluded on April 6. All games were played on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, with all first-round and quarterfinal games at the MGM Grand Garden Arena and the semifinal and final games at T-Mobile Arena. The first-round and quarterfinal games aired on FS1 and the semifinal and final games on Fox.
The bracket was unveiled on March 17, 2025, during the FS1 show Breakfast Ball by Fox Sports college basketball broadcaster, writer, and insider John Fanta. The tournament featured an Name, Image, And Likeness (NIL) prize pool that paid $300,000 for the championship team, $100,000 to the runner-up team, and $50,000 to each of the other two teams that reach the semifinals but failed to advance.
The University of Nebraska Cornhuskers defeated the University of Central Florida Knights 77–66 to claim the championship. The All-Tournament Team was composed of Tyson Degenhart (Boise State), Eric Dixon (Villanova), Juwan Gary (Nebraska), Darius Johnson (UCF) and Brice Williams (Nebraska); Gary was also selected Most Valuable Player.