March Madness bracket live
The 68‑team NCAA Tournament bracket is officially out — No. 1 seeds are Duke, Arizona, Michigan and Florida, with the First Four tipping off midweek and full first‑round games on Thursday and Friday — printable brackets and schedules are live now NCAA.com and real‑time updates are on CBS Sports and Yahoo Sports CBS Sports Yahoo Sports.
First Four matchups are UMBC vs. Howard, Prairie View A&M vs. Lehigh, Texas vs. NC State and Miami (OH) vs. SMU, according to the published play‑in pairings. (on3.com) Those four games are scheduled for Tuesday–Wednesday, March 17–18 at UD Arena in Dayton and will be carried on truTV as part of the tournament opener. (ncaa.com) The UMBC/Howard winner is slotted to face the Midwest No. 1 in Buffalo on Thursday, March 19, while the Prairie View A&M/Lehigh victor feeds into the South No. 1’s Friday game in Tampa. (umhoops.com) Selection Sunday produced 31 automatic qualifiers and 37 at‑large bids for the 68‑team field, a split confirmed in the bracket release. (sportingnews.com) Purdue’s Big Ten championship upset over Michigan on Selection Sunday bumped the Boilermakers up to a No. 2 seed while altering the committee’s placement of the conference’s other top teams. (sports.yahoo.com) All 67 tournament games will be broadcast across CBS, TBS, TNT and truTV (streaming on Paramount+ and HBO Max for cable networks), with First Four coverage beginning the week of March 17 and the national semifinals on April 4 and the championship on April 6 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. (ncaa.com)
