The 2024 NCAA Division III men’s basketball tournament kicks off this weekend, March 1 and 2, with Catholic University playing host to the first and second rounds of the tournament. The full bracket can be found here. Get tickets here.
On Friday, Rowan plays Carnegie Mellon at 3:15 p.m. and Catholic University plays Worcester State at 5:45 p.m. On Saturday, the winners of those two games will play at 5:45 p.m.
Catholic University enters the tournament as champions of the Landmark Conference, boasting a record of 24-3. It was the Cardinals’ first landmark title since 2016. And the University is hosting the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2013.
The Catholic game can be watched live on The Landmark Digital Network.
After a historic season, the women's Cardinals team learned its fate during the NCAA Selection Show on Monday afternoon and was announced as an at-large qualifier.
Catholic will travel south to Lexington, Va., to do battle with Penn St.-Behrend. The pod will be hosted by Washington & Lee who will meet Vassar in the other first-round game on Friday, March 1.
The Cardinals will collide with the Nittany Lions on Friday in Holekamp Gym with tip-off set for 5 p.m. The winner move on to the second-round match-up set for 7:15 p.m on Saturday night.
Matt Donohue led this year's team to a 25-2 record and a Landmark Conference regular-season title. Catholic's only loss of the regular season came away at No. 7 Scranton before the Cardinals fell again to the Royals in Saturday's championship game.
This will mark Catholic's sixth-ever berth into the NCAA Tournament. The last Cardinal tournament appearance was two seasons ago in 2021-22 when it fell to Ithaca in the first round.
This story will be updated with ticketing, game times, streaming and other details soon.