What games to watch for Thursday’s NCAA tournament first round

Providence's Jared Bynum and Nate Watson celebrate.
Windfall’s Jared Bynum (4) and Nate Watson (0) have a good time after a recreation in opposition to Butler in the course of the Large East convention match on March 10 in New York.
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Anybody who grew up obsessive about March Insanity has their tales of how they managed to observe the NCAA match from faculty or the workplace. In highschool, I sneaked a conveyable handheld TV that my mother had — this was the mid-Nineteen Nineties — and grabbed a glimpse of the CBS feed each time I might.

As we speak, in fact, we're spoiled. The entire video games are on a cable community or the March Insanity streaming app. I’ll have 4 screens going till there’s solely a necessity for 3, three till there’s solely a necessity for 2, and so forth.

However some is probably not on my stage. For these of you who may have the bandwidth for one recreation at a time, right here’s my finest guess for what would be the recreation to observe throughout every a part of the day all through the early a part of the match.

No. 4 South Dakota State vs. No. 13 Windfall, 9:40 a.m., TruTV: The Jackrabbits are solely two-point underdogs in opposition to the Large East champions, that means this might be the primary upset — within the conventional sense, anyway — of this match.

No. 8 North Carolina vs. No. 9 Marquette, 1:30 p.m., TBS: Will the North Carolina group that ruined Coach Ok‘s residence finale present up or the group that misplaced to Pitt in Chapel Hill? If it’s the previous, the Tar Heels can have a shot to knock off Baylor on Saturday.

No. 5 St. Mary’s vs. No. 12 Indiana, 4:20 p.m., TBS: Indiana has gained three of 4 to place itself into the sector of 64. Tune in to search out out if first-year coach Mike Woodson really has one thing going right here or not.

No. 7 Murray State vs. No. 10 San Francisco, 6:40 p.m., CBS: How typically do you see two mid-majors taking part in one another as top-10 seeds on the primary day of the match? The winner doubtless will get a shot Saturday in opposition to Kentucky.

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