{"id":537663,"date":"2026-03-22T00:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T00:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/537663\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T00:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T00:42:10","slug":"march-madness-2026-live-bracket-updates-scores-analysis-for-mens-second-round-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/537663\/","title":{"rendered":"March Madness 2026 live bracket updates: Scores, analysis for men&#8217;s second-round games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2026 NCAA Tournament continues on Saturday with the first batch of second-round games as the Sweet 16 begins to fill. The first round featured just a handful of seeding upsets, but four double-digit seeds &#8212; No. 12 High Point, No. 11 Texas, No. 11 VCU and No. 10 Texas A&amp;M &#8212; will be in action looking to keep their respective seasons alive.<\/p>\n<p>No. 1 overall seed Duke, coming off an upset scare against No. 16 seed Siena, faces No. 9 seed TCU. The first spot in the Sweet 16 will be up for grabs when No. 1 seed Michigan faces No. 9 seed Saint Louis. Shortly after that, No. 6 seed Louisville will face No. 3 Michigan State in a matchup of two of the most recognizable programs in the sport.<\/p>\n<p>No. 4 seed Nebraska and High Point are both making their first appearances in the second round of the Big Dance after recording wins over Troy and Wisconsin, respectively. Nebraska faces No. 5 seed Vanderbilt, while High Point has a date with No. 4 seed Arkansas.<\/p>\n<p>2026 NCAA Tournament TV schedule<\/p>\n<p>All times Eastern |\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/news\/ncaa-tournament-2026-schedule-march-madness-bracket-dates-locations-times\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NCAA Tournament schedule<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/ncaa-tournament\/bracket\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LIVE bracket<\/a>   <\/p>\n<p>(1) Michigan 95 (9) Saint Louis 72\u00a0| <a href=\"https:\/\/mml.app.link\/cbs_game_313\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Highlights<\/a>(3) Michigan State 77, (6) Louisville 69\u00a0| <a href=\"https:\/\/mml.app.link\/cbs_game_303\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Highlights<\/a>(1) Duke 81 (9) TCU 58 | <a href=\"https:\/\/mml.app.link\/cbs_game_301\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Highlights<\/a>(2) Houston 88 (10) Texas A&amp;M 57\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mml.app.link\/cbs_game_308\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Highlights<\/a>(3) Gonzaga vs. (11) Texas &#8212; 7:10 p.m. on TBS | <a href=\"https:\/\/mml.app.link\/cbs_game_311\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Watch live<\/a>(3) Illinois vs. (11) VCU &#8212; 7:50 p.m. on CBS | <a href=\"https:\/\/mml.app.link\/cbs_game_307\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Watch live<\/a>(4) Nebraska vs. (5) Vanderbilt &#8212; 8:45 p.m. on TNT | <a href=\"https:\/\/mml.app.link\/cbs_game_306\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Watch live<\/a>(4) Arkansas vs. (12) High Point &#8212; 9:45 p.m. on TBS | <a href=\"https:\/\/mml.app.link\/cbs_game_310\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Watch live<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CBS Sports will be with you the entire way, updating this story with the latest from every second-round game on Saturday. Keep it locked here for scores, analysis and highlights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 NCAA Tournament continues on Saturday with the first batch of second-round games as the Sweet 16&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[70938,4044,4932,102534,398,3789,19551,49163,99],"class_list":["post-537663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-bracket","tag-college-basketball","tag-live-updates","tag-march-madness","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-tournament","tag-scores","tag-second-round","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}