ASAA Reveals March 8 Brackets on KTUU 7:30, 80 Teams Learn Paths

The Alaska School Activities Association unveiled the official March Madness Alaska basketball brackets live on KTUU at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, March 8, revealing first-round opponents and game times for the 80 teams that qualified for the 2026 state championships and announcing one 3A at-large selection and two 4A at-large selections that will shape travel plans across the state.

ASAA repeated the Selection Show announcement on its Instagram feed ahead of the broadcast, telling fans that "Fans, teams, and communities across Alaska can tune in to see the matchups that will set the stage for March Madness Alaska." The live reveal confirmed the final tournament field and assigned game times that schools, parents and athletic departments will now use to finalize travel logistics.

The 1A/2A championships were set in the Selection Show as March 11–14, 2026 at the Alaska Airlines Center in Anchorage, under the event branding "MARCH MADNESS ALASKA 2026 ASAA/FIRST NATIONAL BANK ALASKA 1A/2A BASKETBALL STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS." ASAA and the Anchorage School District are listed as hosts for the 1A/2A event, and the association’s site references Alaska Airlines ASAA State Championship Discount Codes for fans and teams planning to travel to Anchorage.

While the broadcast declared matchups, dates and travel windows, the materials available in the association’s public excerpts did not include full bracket sheets or a published list of the 80 qualifying team names. The Selection Show did explicitly identify the at-large allocations: one 3A at-large and two 4A at-large bids were revealed live, but the supplied excerpts do not name which schools received those berths or provide the complete first-round pairings for each classification.

ASAA’s website continues to post supporting resources for the post-season, including pages titled "Regular Season Basketball Tournament Brackets & Schedules" and "1A, 2A, 3A, & 4A Conference Tournament Locations/Dates and Brackets." The association also lists Associate Director Kathleen Navarre as a contact for the championships, reachable at kathleen@asaa.org, for schools or media seeking clarification on travel windows, seeding or bracket PDFs.

With the bracket reveal complete, the region now moves from conference tournaments into state-play planning: teams across Alaska will use the Selection Show assignments to finalize flights, lodging and game-day rotations, and 1A/2A teams will converge on Anchorage’s Alaska Airlines Center March 11–14 for the state title rounds.