Media Credentials

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The Division I Men's and Women's Basketball Committees have developed criteria in order to allow access for media that will reach the most fans and also for media agencies which cover teams all season.

If your media agency will attend regardless of which teams are competing at a particular site, please click on the link below and read the credentials criteria. If your agency plans to attend only if the team you regularly cover advances to a particular site, do not complete this online application. Instead, you may obtain credentials through that team's sports information contact. Each school's sports information office will share more information regarding this process during the course of the season. Media members covering a specific school will have to apply for credentials for each round of the championship.

Before submitting an application, please read the credentials criteria (PDF located to the left).

The deadline for applying for credentials for the Men's or Women's Final Four is March 1, 2011.

Media agencies that are local to the men's preliminary round (first round, second- and third-round and regional) host cities have until March 1, 2011, to apply for credentials. National media agencies, as identified by the credentials criteria, have until 5 p.m., local time, the Monday prior to competition, to apply for credentials at any preliminary round site.

For the women's championship, media agencies that are local to the preliminary round (first- and second-round and regional) host cities have until March 4, 2011, to apply for credentials. National media agencies, as identified by the credentials criteria, have until 5 p.m., local time, the Tuesday prior to competition, to apply for credentials at any preliminary round site.

A writer covering games in New Orleans, regardless of which teams compete at that site, should apply for credentials online by clicking on the link below. However, if a writer is covering a team, regardless of where the team plays, he or she should not apply for credentials from the link below on this page. After the bracket is announced, each participating institution's SID will instruct its media to sign up for inclusion on the team's media list via the NCAA's online credential system. Media members have until 6 p.m. ET Monday prior to competition to sign up for inclusion on the list. During the course of the season, SIDs will inform media members who cover their team about the process and the deadline. Media members must submit their application to be on the team list prior to a team advancing to a new tournament site, even if there are not any changes to the previous week's submission. All media members must meet the criteria established by the Division I Men's Basketball Committee.

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