College of the Ozarks to host NCCAA Men’s and Women’s National Basketball Championship

POINT LOOKOUT, MO. – The National Christian College Athletic Association’s 2025 National Basketball Championship will be held Wednesday, March 19, through Saturday, March 22, at The Howell W. Keeter Athletic Complex on the College of the Ozarks campus. The championship will feature top Division I men’s and women’s teams from across the nation, offering four days of competitive postseason basketball.

The tournament will include eight men’s teams and eight women’s teams. Dolly Parton’s Stampede is the title sponsor. The official name of the tournament is the 2025 Dolly Parton’s Stampede NCCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s Basketball Championships.

The official list of participating teams will be announced March 15 or 16, during tournament week.

Spectator passes can be purchased at the gate. Options and prices are as follows, with children fourth grade and below admitted free of charge:
 

All games will be livestreamed via the NCCAA Network at www.nccaanetwork.com. The streaming fee is $7.46 per game. A tournament streaming pass will also be available.

The College will continue the Honorary Coach Program previously used during the NAIA Tournament and NCCAA Volleyball Championship.

“We are excited to have postseason basketball back at Keeter Gymnasium this March,” said Charlie Pentecost, College of the Ozarks sports information director and co-tournament director. “We value our partnership with the NCCAA, and we are looking forward to a great week of basketball on our campus. We are thankful for the community support we have received as we partner together to make the NCCAA Championship Tournament a fun and exciting event for the College and the entire Branson/Hollister community.”

For more information, contact the College of the Ozarks Public Relations Office at (417) 690-2212.

About College of the Ozarks

College of the Ozarks is a private, Christian, liberal arts college, located in Point Lookout, Missouri, on a 1,000-acre campus. Christian values, hard work, and fiscal responsibility comprise the fundamental building blocks of the “Hard Work U.” experience. The College earns numerous accolades yearly, including No. 2 Best Performers on Social Mobility-Regional Colleges in the Midwest and No. 4 Best Regional College in the Midwest by U.S. News & World Report for 2024-2025 and No. 3 Best Bang for the Buck by Washington Monthly, 2024. To achieve its vision, the College pursues academic, vocational, Christian, patriotic, and cultural goals. These goals are mirrored in School of the Ozarks, a laboratory school that completes the K-college model.

The Keeter Center — the College’s award-winning lodge, restaurant, and conference facility — earns awards consistently, including the TripAdvisor Best of the Best Award 2024 and the Readers’ Choice Awards 2023 from ConventionSouth magazine. The Keeter Center features historic lodging, fine dining, and meeting rooms. With more than 350 student workers, it is the largest workstation on campus.