{"id":206573,"date":"2026-03-16T08:45:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T08:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/206573\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T08:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T08:45:13","slug":"ohio-state-plays-tcu-to-begin-1st-round-of-2026-ncaa-tournament-whio-tv-7-and-whio-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/206573\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio State plays TCU to begin 1st Round of 2026 NCAA Tournament \u2013 WHIO TV 7 and WHIO Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">COLUMBUS\/GREENVILLE, SC \u2014 The Ohio State Buckeyes will kick off first-round play in the 2026 NCAA Men\u2019s Basketball Tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">The Buckeyes are the No. 8 seed in the East Region. They will play the No. 9 seed TCU Horn Frogs in Greenville, South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">[DOWNLOAD: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whio.com\/mobile-apps\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.whio.com\/mobile-apps\/\">Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">Tip-off is at 12:15 p.m. on Thursday, March 19. The game will be televised nationally on CBS. You can watch it here on Channel 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">TRENDING STORIES:<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">Ohio State is making its 32nd NCAA Tournament appearance. It is their first since 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">The Buckeyes were a No. 7 seed and beat Loyola Chicago in the First Round in Pittsburgh. They fell to eventual Final Four participant Villanova.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">OSU enters the tournament with a 21-12 record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">[SIGN UP: <a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.whio.com\/newsletters\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/membercenter.whio.com\/newsletters\">WHIO-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLUMBUS\/GREENVILLE, SC \u2014 The Ohio State Buckeyes will kick off first-round play in the 2026 NCAA Men\u2019s Basketball&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[81104,116,118,117,48876,781,81105,81103],"class_list":["post-206573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-2026-march-madness","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-march-madness","tag-ohio-state-buckeyes","tag-ohio-state-vs-tcu","tag-osu-buckeyes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}