The NCAA Tournament field will dwindle to just 16 teams on Sunday, when the first weekend of the Big Dance winds to a close with eight more games. It will be a blockbuster cap to an action-packed weekend that has seen better-seeded teams thrive. <\/p>\n
Will the chalkiness of the first weekend withstand Sunday? Some of the biggest brands in college basketball hope so. No. 1 seed Florida, No. 2 seed UConn, No. 3 seed Virginia and No. 4 seed Kansas have combined to win five of the past six national championships. Each will be in action Sunday. So are a slew of other big-name programs. <\/p>\n
No. 7 seed Kentucky is seeking to reach the Sweet 16 for a second straight season under second-year coach Mark Pope. The Wildcats are taking on No. 2 seed Iowa State at 2:45 p.m. ET before Kansas and No. 5 seed St. John’s square off at 5:15 p.m. <\/p>\n
Headlining the late window will be showdowns between No. 2 seed UConn and No. 7 UCLA followed by a weekend capper between No. 4 seed Alabama and No. 5 seed Texas Tech. <\/p>\n
We’ll be following all the action here as the first weekend of the 2026 NCAA Tournament comes to a close. \u00a0 <\/p>\n
2026 NCAA Tournament TV schedule <\/p>\n
All times Eastern |\u00a0NCAA Tournament schedule<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0LIVE bracket<\/a> <\/p>\n 12:10 PMSt. Louis(2) Purdue 79, (7) Miami (FL) 69CBSHighlights<\/a>2:45 PMSt. Louis(7) Kentucky vs. (2) Iowa StateCBS\t\t\t\t(Watch live<\/a>) 5:15 PMSan Diego(5) St. John’s vs. (4) KansasCBS\t\t\t\t(Watch live<\/a>) 6:10 PMPhiladelphia(6) Tennessee vs. (3)VirginiaTNT\t\t\t\t(Watch live<\/a>) 7:10 PMTampa(9) Iowa vs. (1) FloridaTBS\t\t\t\t(Watch live<\/a>) 7:50 PMSan Diego (9) Utah State vs. (1) ArizonatruTV\t\t\t\t(Watch live<\/a>) 8:45 PMPhiladelphia(7) UCLA vs. (2) UConnTNT\t\t\t\t(Watch live<\/a>) 9:45 PMTampa(5) Texas Tech vs. (4) AlabamaTBS\t\t\t\t(Watch live<\/a>) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NCAA Tournament field will dwindle to just 16 teams on Sunday, when the first weekend of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539123,"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-539122","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\/539122","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=539122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}