NCAA 'First Four,' 'Second Round' TV schedule
St. John's University basketball coach Steve Lavin is all smiles after his team was selected to play in the NCAA tournament. He appeared at the New York Athletic Club, NYC. (March 13, 2011) Credit: Bruce Gilbert
NCAA released the schedule for the "First Four" and "Second round" games for the NCAA Tournament Sunday night. Games will be broadcast on CBS, TBS, TNT and truTV. This year, as Neil Best wrote about earlier this week, every game will be televised.
Below are the times and stations for a few of the early round games. You can view the entire telvision breakdown by clicking here, and get profiles of every team in the tournament by clicking here.
Local games
No. 6 St. John's vs. No. 11 Gonzaga: March 17, 9:30 p.m., CBS
No. 2 North Carolina vs. No. 15 Long Island: March 18, 7 p.m., CBS
Notable national games
No. 8 Butler vs. No. 9 Old Dominion: March 17, 12:30 p.m., truTV
No. 4 Kentucky vs. No. 13 Princeton: March 17, 2:30 p.m., CBS
No. 14 Bucknell vs. No. 3 Connecticut: March 17, 7:15 p.m., TNT
No. 10 Michigan St. vs. No. 7 UCLA: March 17, 9:15 p.m., CBS
No. 2 Notre Dame vs. No. 15 Akron: March 18, 1:30 p.m., TBS
No. 8 George Mason vs. No. 9 Villanova: March 18, 2 p.m., TNT
No. 6 Xavier vs. No. 11 Marquette: March 18, 7:15 p.m., truTV
No. 3 Syracuse vs. No. 14 Indiana State: March 18, 9:55 p.m., truTV
