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.

Before submitting an application, please click on the following link and read the credentials criteria:

• Division I Men's Basketball Championship Credentials Criteria
• Division I Women's Basketball Championship Credentials Criteria

If your media agency meets the qualification criteria, please click on the site link(s) below and complete the appropriate sections to submit your request credentials. The sports editor or news director is the "requestor" and must submit the request for all employees who will cover the event, who are the "attendees." Please request credentials for all of your staff members on ONE application.

2010 Men's and Women's Basketball Championships

The deadline for applying for credentials for the Men's or Women's Final Four is Monday, March 1, 2010.

Media agencies that are local to the men’s preliminary round (opening round, first- and second-round and regional) host cities have until March 1, 2010 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 5, 2010 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. Rather, that writer will appear on the team media list that the team's sports information director submits to the media coordinator at the site where the team is sent to play. Beat writers covering a specific institution will receive instructions from the SID for credential application procedures by February 1. Please read the credentials criteria for being eligible to appear on the team's media list.

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