It’s finally here. Over the next 12-plus hours, we have 16 men’s basketball games to watch and agonize over. While a few will be blowouts (sorry, Hampton, that you had to be the one paired with Kentucky), some will surely feature buzzer-beaters and celebrations that you won’t soon forget. A personal favorite: No 15 Hampton’s win over No2 Iowa State in 2001, which left the Pirates’ coach kicking his legs out in utter ecstasy (maybe there is hope, Hampton fans!)
If past years are any indication, less than 0.5% of brackets will be perfect by the end of the night, so don’t feel bad if you make some wrong picks. Rather than wallow in our collective futility to predict basketball games, let’s get ready for the Madness to begin.
Here’s a full list of today’s games (ET), as well as their US television listings:
- No3 Notre Dame v No14 Northeastern, 12:15 p.m., CBS
- No3 Iowa State v No14 UAB, 12:40 p.m., TruTV
- No3 Baylor v No14 Georgia State, 1:40 p.m., TBS
- No2 Arizona v No15 Texas Southern, 2:10 p.m., TNT
- No6 Butler v No11 Texas, approx. 2:45 p.m., CBS
- No6 SMU v No11 UCLA, approx. 3:10 p.m., TruTV
- No6 Xavier v No11 Ole Miss, approx. 4:10 p.m., TBS
- No7 VCU v No10 Ohio State, approx. 4:40 p.m., TNT
- No1 Villanova v No16 Lafayette, 6:50 p.m., TBS
- No8 Cincinnati v No9 Purdue, 7:10 p.m., CBS
- No4 North Carolina v No13 Harvard, 7:20 p.m., TNT
- No5 Utah v No12 Stephen F. Austin, 7:27 p.m., TruTV
- No8 N.C. State v No9 LSU, approx. 9:20 p.m., TBS
- No1 Kentucky v No16 Hampton, approx. 9:40 p.m., CBS
- No5 Arkansas v No12 Wofford, approx. 9:50 p.m., TNT
- No4 Georgetown v No13 E. Washington, approx. 9:57 p.m., TruTV
