KlicKNet's NCAA March Madness Coverage: The Matchups

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NCAA March Madness

The Matchups

A few years ago, I found my favorite thing to in March, watch the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament. Dating back to 1939, the Tournament was a good way to kick back, relax and enjoy tons and tons of college basketball games which have the same energy and feeling as a NBA Playoff game. The number of teams have competed in each tournament has risen to a sixty-eight field, which soons turns into sixty-four, then thirty-two before dwindling down to the Sweet Sixteen, then Elite Eight, which leads us to the Final Four and finally the National Championship. Some people probably already know about the format, but in case they need to know all the teams that are competing starting tomorrow, KlicK-Net will get you all ready for the event known as March Madness.

First let's talk about each Region in each bracket, in the East Region, Villanova won the Big East Championship this past weekend and clinched the #1 Seed in the East while Duke, winner of the ACC Tournament, came in at #2 and will face the #15 Seed Troy. In the Midwest Region, Kansas got stunned after being eliminated the Big 12 Conference by TCU but still grabbed in the #1 Seed in the Midwest and Louisville, a team I know so well, made #2 and will take Jacksonville State who are #15. For the South, North Carolina were knocked out of the ACC Tournament by Duke and yet find themselves the #1 Seed in South Region and now have a date with #16 Texas Southern, for the #2 vs #15 matchup in the South, it's going a real State Showdown between SEC Champion Kentucky and Northern Kentucky from the Horizon League. Finally for the West, this might be the most biggest surprising and hard-working team to have clinched the #1 Seed in the West Region, Gonzaga who meet the #16 South Dakota State, plus, Arizona will be at #2 taking on the #15 North Dakota. The first four round starts tomorrow on truTV as always, so let's take a look at all of them as well as the all the other first round games.

First Four

Tomorrow
16 Mount St. Mary's  vs 16 New Orleans at 6:40PM on truTV
11 Kansas State vs 11 Wake Forest at 9:10PM on truTV
Wednesday
16 North Carolina Central vs 16 UC Davis at 6:40PM on truTV
11 Providence vs 11 USC at 9:10PM on truTV

Round of 64
Thursday
12 Princeton vs 5 Notre Dame at 12:15PM on CBS
12 UNC Wilmington vs 5 Virginia at 12:40PM on truTV
13 Winthrop vs 4 Butler at 1:30PM on TNT
16 South Dakota State vs 1 Gonzaga at 2PM on TBS
13 Bucknell vs 4 West Virginia at 2:45PM on CBS
13 East Tennessee State vs 4 Florida at 3:10PM on truTV
12 Middle Tennessee vs 5 Minnesota at 4PM on TNT
9 Vanderbilt vs 8 Northwestern at 4:30PM on TBS
11 Xavier vs 6 Maryland at 6:50PM on TNT
16 Mt St. Mary's/NOLA vs 1 Villanova at 7:10PM on CBS
10 VCU vs 7 St. Mary's at 7:20PM on TBS
13 Vermont vs 4 Purdue at 7:27PM on truTV
14 Florida Gulf Coast vs 3 Florida State at 9:20PM on TNT
9 Virginia Tech vs 8 Wisconsin vs 9:40PM on CBS
15 North Dakota vs 2 Arizona at 9:50PM on TBS
12 Nevada vs 5 Iowa State at 9:57PM on truTV
Friday
10 Oklahoma State vs 7 Michigan at 12:15PM on CBS
14 New Mexico State vs 3 Baylor at 12:40PM truTV
9 Seton Hall vs 8 Arkansas at 1:30PM on TNT
14 Iona vs 3 Oregon at 2PM on TBS
15 Jacksonville State vs  2 Louisville at 2:45PM on CBS
11 Providence/USC vs 6 SMU at 3:10PM on truTV
16 Texas Southern vs 1 North Carolina at 4PM on TNT
11 Rhode Island vs 6 Creighton at 4:30PM on TBS
16 NCC/UC Davis vs 1 Kansas at 6:50PM on TNT
10 Wichita State vs 7 Dayton at 7:10pm on CBS
15 Troy vs 2 Duke at 7:20pm on TBS
11 Kansas State/Wake Forest vs 6 Cincinnati at 7:27PM on TruTV
9 Michigan State vs 8 Miami (FL) at 9:20PM on TNT
15 Northern Kentucky vs 2 Kentucky at 9:40PM on CBS
10 Marquette vs 7 South Carolina at 9:50PM TBS
14 Kent State vs 3 UCLA at 9:57PM on truTV

That is all the games for March Madness, now all you have to do just watch and go crazy.