Officials Revealed for Sweet 16, Elite Eight Rounds of NCAA Tournament
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The list of officials for the Sweet 16 and Elite Eight rounds of the 2025 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament has been released. This week, the NCAA revealed the 40 referees who will officiate games over the weekend.
CBS Sports' Matt Norlander posted the list of officials in a social media post. The officials are listed in alphabetical order and regional assignments were not posted at the time.
Via release, here are the 40 officials who have been selected to work the Sweet 16 and Elite Eight. pic.twitter.com/5jwKK1jgj0
— Matt Norlander (@MattNorlander) March 24, 2025
The 40 officials will head to four different regions for the Sweet 16 and Elite Eight: Atlanta (South), Indianapolis (Midwest), Newark (East) and San Francisco (West).
Sweet 16 games will begin on Thursday, March 27 and run through Friday, March 28. Then, Elite Eight action begins on Saturday, March 29 and will conclude on Sunday, March 30.
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Dustin Schutte is the publisher of Purdue Boilermakers on SI and has spent more than a decade working in sports journalism. His career began in 2013, when he covered Big Ten football. He remained in that role for eight years before working at On SI to cover the Boilermakers. Dustin graduated from Manchester University in Indiana in 2010, where he played for the men's tennis team.
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