The nation’s highest-scoring offense and the likely No. 1 pick in the 2025 NBA Draft are just two of the major draws coming to the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., for the Sweet 16 and Elite Eight of the 2025 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. The three-game weekend is slated to start Thursday with a matchup between No. 2 Alabama and No. 6 BYU, and tickets are still available to watch live as four teams battle for the East Region’s spot in the Final Four.
How to get NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 tickets: Seats are still available for the Sweet 16 and Elite Eight on secondary sites Vivid Seats, StubHub, SeatGeek and Viagogo.
As of March 24, the starting prices for all-sessions tickets were as follows:
Vivid Seats starting at $400
StubHub starting at $378
SeatGeek starting at $430
Viagogo starting at $346
Second-seeded Alabama will look to claim the first spot in the NCAA Tournament’s Sweet 16 as the round kicks off in Newark Thursday night at 7:09 p.m. ET. The Crimson Tide are early 4.5-point favorites to handle the No. 6 seed Cougars, who are one of the tournament’s top storylines after defeating No. 3 Wisconsin (91-89) in the second round. The winner of that Alabama-BYU matchup will play the winner of a Sweet 16 contest between the top-seeded Duke Blue Devils and the No. 4 Arizona Wildcats, who are due for a tip-off Thursday night at 9:39 p.m. ET.
Here’s a look at the full schedule from Newark, which will feature three games. The Sweet 16 doubleheader on Thursday is listed as Session 1, while the Elite Eight game on Saturday counts as Session 2 when purchasing tickets.
NCAA TOURNAMENT 2025
EAST REGIONAL SCHEDULE
THURSDAY, MARCH 27
SWEET 16 - REGIONAL SEMIFINALS
#2 Alabama Crimson Tide vs. #6 BYU Cougars
NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 at a glance
#1 Duke Blue Devils (33-3) vs. #4 Arizona Wildcats (24-12)
NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 at a glance
SATURDAY, MARCH 29
ELITE EIGHT - EAST REGIONAL FINALS
Alabama/BYU winner vs. Duke/Arizona winner
NCAA Tournament Elite Eight at a glance