{"id":229248,"date":"2026-03-31T22:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T22:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/229248\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T22:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T22:27:08","slug":"ncaa-tournament-returns-to-dickies-arena-fort-worth-in-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/229248\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Tournament returns to Dickies Arena, Fort Worth in 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NCAA Tournament will return to Dickies Arena next season \u2014 and this time it\u2019s the men.<\/p>\n

First- and second-round games in the men\u2019s NCAA Tournament will be held in Fort Worth on March 18 and 20 next year.<\/p>\n

Dickies Arena just finished hosting the Fort Worth regional<\/a> of the women\u2019s NCAA Tournament. Top seeds UConn<\/a> and Texas<\/a> advanced to this week\u2019s Final Four in Phoenix.<\/p>\n

The men\u2019s tournament already came to Dickies in 2022, highlighted by No. 8 seed North Carolina upsetting<\/a> defending national champion and No. 1 seed Baylor 93-86 in overtime in the second round.<\/p>\n


\n \"Profile
\n <\/a><\/p>\n

Jim Barnes<\/a><\/p>\n

Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n

Jim Barnes is the Star-Telegram\u2019s sports editor. A Fort Worth native and graduate of Castleberry High School, he returned to Texas after 13 years at the Las Vegas Review-Journal. He previously was sports editor of the Waco Tribune-Herald and a freelance high school sports reporter for The Dallas Morning News.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NCAA Tournament will return to Dickies Arena next season \u2014 and this time it\u2019s the men. First-…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[88659,88656,88658,116,118,88657,117],"class_list":{"0":"post-229248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-college-basketball-tournament","9":"tag-dickies-arena-2027","10":"tag-dickies-arena-ncaa-tournament","11":"tag-fort-worth","12":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","13":"tag-fort-worth-ncaa-tournament-men","14":"tag-fort-worth-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}