{"id":141620,"date":"2026-03-18T10:57:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/141620\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T10:57:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:57:21","slug":"ncaa-march-madness-how-to-watch-philly-regions-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/141620\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA March Madness: How to watch Philly region\u2019s teams"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

The NCAA tournament is underway and men\u2019s<\/a> and women\u2019s<\/a> basketball teams from the Philadelphia area will be looking to hoist a national title \u2014 but they may have to bust some brackets along the way.\n<\/p>\n

March Madness games in Philadelphia<\/p>\n

Philadelphia is hosting first- and second-round games at Xfinity Mobile Arena<\/a> on Friday and Sunday, the first men\u2019s NCAA tournament games held in the city since 2013<\/a>. Below is the schedule for this weekend\u2019s games:\n<\/p>\n

No. 3 Virginia vs. No. 14 Wright State on Friday, March 20, at 1:50 p.m.
\nNo. 6 Tennessee vs. the winner of No. 11 Miami University of Ohio and No. 11 SMU on Friday, March 20, at 4:25 p.m.
\nNo. 7 University of California, Los Angeles vs. No. 10 University of Central Florida on Friday, March 20 at 7:25 p.m.
\nNo. 2 University of Connecticut vs. No. 15 Furman on Friday, March 20, at 10 p.m.<\/p>\n

Sunday will feature two second-round games, with tipoff times to be determined.\n <\/p>\n

Philadelphia was the site of the men\u2019s Final Four in 1976<\/a> and 1981<\/a>, both at the Spectrum Center. Indiana University, led by head coach Bobby Knight, won both tournaments.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64216,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-141620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-march-madness","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}