How long march madness

See at Hulu. See at Paramount Plus. See at FuboTV. Tip-off for tonight's contest is set for p. PT on CBS. Who were the top seeds, where can I find the bracket?

YouTube TV. Offers CBS. Hulu With Live TV. This year all games will take place in Indiana, primarily in the city of Indianapolis. Teams will be able to practice at the Indiana Convention Center as multiple courts will be set up inside the venue. However, all teams will be housed on dedicated hotel floors, with physically distanced meeting and dining rooms and secure transportation will be provided to and from competition venues.

The single-elimination tournament is one of the most watched sporting events in the United States and generates a ton of betting action across the country. March Madness will begin on Thursday, March 18 at 4 p.

ET, with the First Four—or play-in—stage of competition. The official first round, featuring 64 teams, will take place Friday and Saturday, March , before the round of 32 on Sunday and Monday, March Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis will host the Final Four, which includes the national semifinal championship game on the evening of Monday, April 5. A total of 68 teams play in the tournament, with 32 of those teams earning an automatic bid by winning their conference tournament.

The 36 remaining tournament bids are granted by the selection committee and are revealed on Selection Sunday. The committee is also in charge of seeding and placing each team in one of four regions of the tournament bracket : the East, West, Midwest and South. Each region will be seeded Members serve a five-year term. March Madness will follow the standard rules of a regular-season college basketball game, with two minute halves. The overtime period is five minutes long and may be repeated as many times as necessary to determine a winner.

The University of Kentucky, a longtime elite program in college basketball, earned its first championship in and most recent in ACC schools North Carolina and Duke are neck-and-neck for titles, with six and five, respectively, and have each won one in the last five years.

The Indiana Hoosiers also rank high with five championships, but the school hasn't experienced the NCAA's ultimate glory since , with head coach Bob Knight. The University of Louisville hung championship banners in and with head coach Denny Crum, and again in with Rick Pitino. Louisville is the only school in NCAA history to have a men's basketball championship vacated. Kentucky legend Adolph Rupp led the school to the Promised Land four times , , and during his tenure.

Williams collected his trio of banners with North Carolina in , and He also guided the Kansas Jayhawks to a national title game, where they fell to Syracuse in The Cavaliers most recently won the tournament in The Oregon Ducks of the Pac triumphed in the first national championship game in Eight teams — the four lowest-seeded automatic and at-large bids — will take part in the play-in games, which grants access to the tournament proper.

All games will take place in Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. Unlike previous tournaments — which featured regional finals in four separate cities before teams convened for the Final Four host city — the final three rounds will all take place in the same stadium.

CBS has broadcast rights for both the Final Four and national title game, despite the fact Turner Sports couldn't broadcast those rounds in due to the tournament's cancellation a contract allows the stations to split the Final Four and national championship rights on an every-other-year rotation.

The NCAA Tournament will be held entirely in the state of Indiana , with the majority of games taking place in the greater Indianapolis area.

That's part of an effort to minimize travel by teams and keep a consistent protocol in place for COVID testing. Each venue will feature two courts to play games. While 64 teams have an equal chance to win the NCAA Tournament at its start, only a handful of teams can make a legitimate run to the national championship. Each tournament over the next several years will have new venues for the Final Four and national championship games.