The race to claim automatic NCAA Tournament bids ratcheted up in conferences across college basketball on Thursday, as Selection Sunday crept closer and the stakes increased with more single-elimination tournament games.

Here are 12 questions and answers to get you ready for this year’s NCAA Tournament: The 2025 NCAA Final Four will take place at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. The venerable venue hosted its first men’s Final Four in 1998, a year in which Kentucky came home with the national title.

Among the other Cinderella runs of note: Eighth-seeded Butler reaching the championship game (for the second consecutive year) in 2011, No. 15 Saint Peter's making the Elite Eight in 2022, and 10th-seeded Davidson (led by a then-unheralded) Steph Curry making the Elite Eight in 2008.