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Let the March Madness begin. The 2022 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament schedule was set today, with First Four games in Dayton, Ohio, and the Final Four set for New Orleans. Click here for a printable bracket. Here is a quick timeline with schedules and channels (all times are ET): First Four: March 15 No. 16 Texas…

UCLA’s overtime victory over Michigan State in a battle of marquee programs averaged 3 million viewers Thursday night on TBS, the best viewership for an NCAA Tournament First Four play-in game since the format was introduced in 2011, according to Nielsen. Overall, the First Four games to kick off the 2021 NCAA men’s…

Confirming a plan it started exploring last fall, the NCAA said it will host the entire men’s basketball tournament — the event known as March Madness — in Indiana due to Covid-19. The extraordinary initiative is aimed at ensuring that this year’s 67-game extravaganza does not meet the same fate as the 2020 edition…

Looking to avoid a repeat of March 2020, when its men’s basketball tournament became one of the first major casualties of COVID-19, the NCAA is looking to hold the three-week event in a single city next year. In a press release Monday, the organization said it is in “preliminary talks” with the state of Indiana and…

CBS has adjusted its programming schedule following the cancellation of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, filling in with network programming, with both encore and original episodes, in its place. The tournament is among a slew of sporting, entertainment and media-related events canceled due to the spreading…

The NCAA has canceled it men’s and women’s basketball tournaments amid groning concerns about the coronavirus. It had announced earlier in the week that it would hold both tourneys without live crowds. The remaining collegiate winter and spring championships in all sports also have been canceled. “This decision is…

The NCAA’s men’s basketball tournament, one of the nation’s most-watched TV sporting events, will be played this year in mostly empty arenas out of concerns for the widening coronavirus pandemic. “The NCAA continues to assess the impact of COVID-19 in consultation with public health officials and our COVID-19 advisory…

UPDATE, 12:52 PM: The final numbers for last night’s historic NCCA tournament win by the University of Virginia over Texas Tech and they are good and not so good for CBS. Compared to last year’s TBS, TNT and truTV broadcast Michigan and Villanova match-up title game, last night’s NCCA Championship was up 23% in…

The University of Virginia won its first NCAA men’s basketball title in school history tonight, beating Texas Tech, 85-77, in the tournament final. It was the first OT in the championship game since 2008. Guard scoring paced the Cavaliers’ win as De’Andre Hunter’s 27 points led all scorers, followed Kyle Guy with 24…

A mega three-hour American Idol (1.2 rating in the adults 18-49 demo, 7.18 million viewers) that saw cut-downs to the top 20 of the ABC signing competition hogged the primetime schedule Sunday, a night when NCAA Tournament overrun boosted CBS’ 60 Minutes and its other shows to a preliminary overall victory in the demo…

ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy (1.5 rating in the adults 18-49 demo, 7.30 million viewers) more than stayed on the court with CBS’ coverage of the NCAA basketball tournament Thursday. CBS aired a pair of Sweet 16 games — Gonzaga-Florida State and Texas Tech-Michigan — which averaged 6.7 million viewers and a 1.6 rating in the…