NCAA tournament schedule: March Madness Round 1 times, TV guide
March Madness tips off with two play-in games Tuesday.
Here is everything you need to know for the coverage of the NCAA tournament on Day 1.
Take a look at the full bracket and print it here. (Wednesday's slate is here.)
THE GAMES (University of Dayton Arena. Dayton, Ohio)
• Manhattan vs. Hampton / 16-seed play-in / Midwest region
6:40 p.m. ET, truTV
Announcers: Brian Anderson, Steve Smith, Lewis Johnson
• Mississippi vs. BYU / 11-seed play-in / West region
9:10 p.m. ET, truTV
Announcers: Brian Anderson, Steve Smith, Lewis Johnson
MUST-READ STORIES
• Three things to know about March Madness on Tuesday. For a day or so, the focus shifts from the team in Lexington, Ky., to a collection of teams gathered 140 miles away in Dayton, Ohio.
• The NCAA tournament bracket cheat sheet you know you need. Paste BN Sports and For The Win provide a one-stop shop for the NCAA tournament with all the analysis and insight you'll need to win your office pool.
• The most over seeded, underseeded teams. Shelby Mast, who provides bracketology analysis for Paste BN Sports, identifies some of the odd decisions the NCAA men's basketball selection committee made Sunday.
• NCAA tournament committee gets the top seeds right. For all the grumbling about snubs and surprising NCAA tournament selections this year, give the committee credit where credit is due: It nailed the top seed lines.
• Five reasons Kentucky won't win it all. Now that it looks as if our prediction is careening into the wall, it's time to start steering into the skid.
• Five double-digit Cinderalla candidates. The brackets are out. The pundits are frothing. The numbers are being crunched. Here are five double-digit Cinderellas to keep an eye on in the second round.
BREAKING DOWN THE TOURNAMENT BY REGION
S outh regional: Blue Devils, Zags lead region.
West regional: Will Ohio State survive VCU?
East regional: Villanova has a tough path to the Final Four.
Midwest regional: Wichita State a sleeper in Kentucky's region
PHOTOS: All 68 teams in the NCAA tournament