INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championship Subcommittee has selected the 64 teams and 16 first- and second-round sites for the 2026 NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championship. Per NCAA policy, the top 16 seeds are guaranteed to host if a bid was submitted and criteria are met, and matchups between conference opponents were avoided in the first two rounds of the championship.
First- and second-round competition takes place May 1-2 and features four teams playing in a single-elimination format. The winner of each site advances to super-regional competition May 8 or 9. Each super-regional site will feature two teams playing a single-elimination format. The super-regional winners advance to the Dan Magill Tennis Complex in Athens, Georgia, where the eight teams will compete for the national championship May 14-17. The event will be hosted by the University of Georgia.
The matches shall be regulation dual matches. Three doubles matches consisting of six-game sets will be played for one team point, followed by six singles matches, each valued at one team point; played the best of three sets. No-ad scoring will be used and a seven-point tiebreaker (first to seven points, must win by two points) will be played at six-games-all. The team winning four or more team points advances in the championship bracket.
During the championship, all matches will be stopped after the doubles point is decided. All remaining individual matches will be stopped once a team winner (four points won) has been determined. The score will only reflect completed matches. The complete list of teams and sites is included on the official bracket, which is available at www.krikya98.com.
Twenty-seven conferences receive automatic qualification into the 2026 NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championship. Each conference and its automatic qualifier are listed below.
The American – Tulsa
Atlantic 10 – Richmond
Atlantic Coast – Wake Forest
ASUN Conference – Stetson
Big East – St. John’s University (New York)
Big Sky – Northern Arizona
Big South – Gardner-Webb
Big Ten – Michigan State
Big 12 – TCU
Big West – UC Santa Barbra
CAA – Elon
Conference USA – Middle Tennessee State
Horizon – Tennessee Tech.
Ivy League – Cornell
Metro Atlantic – Rider
MAC – Buffalo
Mid-Eastern – South Carolina State
Mountain West – Utah State
Northeast – Wagner College
Patriot – Navy
SEC – Texas
Southern – Samford
Southland – Texas A&M – Corpus Christi
SWAC – Alabama State
Summit League – Denver
Sun Belt – Old Dominion
West Coast – San Diego
