{"id":191899,"date":"2026-03-14T22:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T22:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/191899\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T22:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T22:30:08","slug":"may-i-have-this-dance-ucf-mens-hoop-awaits-ncaa-invite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/191899\/","title":{"rendered":"May I Have This Dance? UCF Men\u2019s Hoop Awaits NCAA Invite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">ORLANDO, Fla. \u2013 Though nothing is guaranteed, the UCF Men\u2019s Basketball team is primed to make the NCAA Tournament for the sixth time in program history and for the first time since 2019. The Knights will find out their tournament fate on Sunday between 6 &#8211; 7 pm, when invitations to the \u201cBig Dance\u201d are extended and the brackets are revealed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Despite 21 regular season victories, including wins over nationally ranked Kansas, Texas Tech, and BYU, UCF entered the Big 12 Tournament as a \u201cbubble\u201d team. The Knights\u2019 66-65 victory in overtime against Cincinnati in the Big 12 Second Round likely pushed Coach Johnny Dawkins\u2019 team into the field of 68. It would be UCF\u2019s first bid to the NCAA Tournament as a member of the Big 12. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">NCAA First and Second Round sites are Tampa, Buffalo, Greenville (SC), Philadelphia, Oklahoma City, Portland (OR), San Diego, and St. Louis. The Final Four will be held in Indianapolis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">You can watch the CBS Sports\u2019 Selection Sunday on News 6 on Sunday from 6 &#8211; 7 pm.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WKMG ClickOrlando &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2013 Though nothing is guaranteed, the UCF Men\u2019s Basketball team is primed to make the NCAA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[57895,8294,89465,33737,139,141,140,3865],"class_list":["post-191899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-big-12-conference","tag-college-basketball","tag-final-four-indianapolis","tag-march-madness","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-ucf-knights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}