{"id":208842,"date":"2026-03-17T21:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T21:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/208842\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T21:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T21:52:07","slug":"texas-vs-north-carolina-state-first-four-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/208842\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas vs North Carolina State First Four live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

But can the 11th-seeded Longhorns (18-14) advance out of the First Four against North Carolina State (20-13) after falling in the same round a year ago to Xavier<\/a>?<\/p>\n

They\u2019ll have to play better defense after giving up 85.7 points a contest over the past six games, a stretch in which the Longhorns went just 1-5<\/a>. But defense may be scarce in what looks like a shootout against North Carolina State in University of Dayton Arena, especially since the two teams combined for almost 200 points in a 102-97 win by Texas<\/a> in the Maui Classic.<\/p>\n

Follow below for live scores and updates Tuesday as the Texas Longhorns face the North Carolina State Wolfpack in a First Four NCAA Tournament game. The winner will play No. 6 BYU Thursday in a first-round game.<\/p>\n

This section will be updated when the game starts<\/p>\n

This section will be updated when available<\/p>\n

What:\u00a0NCAA Tournament First Four game<\/p>\n

Where: March 17, 2026, at University of Dayton Arena in Dayton, Ohio<\/p>\n

TV\/radio:\u00a0TruTV; 1300 AM, 98.1 FM<\/p>\n

Line:\u00a0North Carolina State is favored by 1\u00bd; total of 159\u00bd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But can the 11th-seeded Longhorns (18-14) advance out of the First Four against North Carolina State (20-13) after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2692,69852,3112,81148,27,29,537,19751,28,9228],"class_list":["post-208842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-college-basketball","tag-ncaa-march-madness","tag-ncaa-tournament","tag-north-carolina-state-basketball","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-texas-longhorns-men-s-basketball","tag-texas-news","tag-ttp-live-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208842","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=208842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}