{"id":208957,"date":"2026-03-17T23:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/208957\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T23:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:23:09","slug":"how-to-watch-texas-vs-nc-state-in-march-madness-first-four-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/208957\/","title":{"rendered":"How to watch Texas vs NC State in March Madness First Four game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wondering how to watch the Longhorns vs the Wolfpack? We&#8217;ve got you covered.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Under first-year coach Sean Miller, Texas finished a middling 18-14 and lost five of its last six games. The Longhorns went from a safe NCAA Tournament selection, sporting a four-game SEC win streak and a couple of upsets over ranked squads to tenuous status on the bubble and an early conference tournament loss.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>North Carolina State finished seventh in the ACC and earned one conference tournament win to help solidify a soft resume lacking in notable\u00a0nonconference wins. The Wolfpack actually lost to the Longhorns back in the early-season Maui Invitational.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s all the information you need to know about the First Four matchup.<\/p>\n<p>The Longhorns and Wolfpack play at 8:15 p.m. CT Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Like all First Four games, Texas and North Carolina State play at UD Arena in Dayton, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight&#8217;s winner will become the No. 11 seed in the West Region and play BYU at 6:45 p.m. CT Thursday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wondering how to watch the Longhorns vs the Wolfpack? We&#8217;ve got you covered.\u00a0 Under first-year coach Sean Miller,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29183,9330,69852,3112,81148,20863,27,29,537,19751,28],"class_list":["post-208957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaa-division-i","tag-ncaa-march-madness","tag-ncaa-tournament","tag-north-carolina-state-basketball","tag-north-carolina-state-wolfpack","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-texas-longhorns-men-s-basketball","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208957","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=208957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}