{"id":674340,"date":"2026-03-22T19:00:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T19:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/674340\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T19:00:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T19:00:28","slug":"march-madness-2026-live-bracket-updates-scores-analysis-for-mens-second-round-games-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/674340\/","title":{"rendered":"March Madness 2026 live bracket updates: Scores, analysis for men&#8217;s second-round games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NCAA Tournament field will dwindle to just 16 teams on Sunday, when the first weekend of the Big Dance winds to a close with eight more games. It will be a blockbuster cap to an action-packed weekend that has seen better-seeded teams thrive.  <\/p>\n<p>Will the chalkiness of the first weekend withstand Sunday? Some of the biggest brands in college basketball hope so. No. 1 seed Florida, No. 2 seed UConn, No. 3 seed Virginia and No. 4 seed Kansas have combined to win five of the past six national championships. Each will be in action Sunday. So are a slew of other big-name programs. <\/p>\n<p>No. 7 seed Kentucky is seeking to reach the Sweet 16 for a second straight season under second-year coach Mark Pope. The Wildcats are taking on No. 2 seed Iowa State at 2:45 p.m. ET before Kansas and No. 5 seed St. John&#8217;s square off at 5:15 p.m. <\/p>\n<p>Headlining the late window will be showdowns between No. 2 seed UConn and No. 7 UCLA followed by a weekend capper between No. 4 seed Alabama and No. 5 seed Texas Tech. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be following all the action here as the first weekend of the 2026 NCAA Tournament comes to a close. \u00a0   <\/p>\n<p>   2026 NCAA Tournament TV schedule   <\/p>\n<p>All times Eastern |\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/news\/ncaa-tournament-2026-schedule-march-madness-bracket-dates-locations-times\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NCAA Tournament schedule<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/ncaa-tournament\/bracket\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LIVE bracket<\/a>   <\/p>\n<tr>\n<td>12:10 PM<\/td>\n<td>St. Louis<\/td>\n<td>(2) Purdue 79, (7) Miami (FL) 69<\/td>\n<td>CBS<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/mml.app.link\/cbs_game_312\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Highlights<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2:45 PM<\/td>\n<td>St. Louis<\/td>\n<td>(7) Kentucky vs. (2) Iowa State<\/td>\n<td>CBS<\/td>\n<td>\t\t\t\t(<a href=\"https:\/\/mml.app.link\/cbs_game_316\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Watch live<\/a>)   <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5:15 PM<\/td>\n<td>San Diego<\/td>\n<td>(5) St. John&#8217;s vs. (4) Kansas<\/td>\n<td>CBS<\/td>\n<td>\t\t\t\t(<a href=\"https:\/\/mml.app.link\/cbs_game_302\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Watch live<\/a>)   <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6:10 PM<\/td>\n<td>Philadelphia<\/td>\n<td>(6) Tennessee vs. (3)Virginia<\/td>\n<td>TNT<\/td>\n<td>\t\t\t\t(<a href=\"https:\/\/mml.app.link\/cbs_game_315\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Watch live<\/a>)   <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>7:10 PM<\/td>\n<td>Tampa<\/td>\n<td>(9) Iowa vs. (1) Florida<\/td>\n<td>TBS<\/td>\n<td>\t\t\t\t(<a href=\"https:\/\/mml.app.link\/cbs_game_305\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Watch live<\/a>)   <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>7:50 PM<\/td>\n<td>San Diego <\/td>\n<td>(9) Utah State vs. (1) Arizona<\/td>\n<td>truTV<\/td>\n<td>\t\t\t\t(<a href=\"https:\/\/mml.app.link\/cbs_game_309\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Watch live<\/a>)   <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>8:45 PM<\/td>\n<td>Philadelphia<\/td>\n<td>(7) UCLA vs. (2) UConn<\/td>\n<td>TNT<\/td>\n<td>\t\t\t\t(<a href=\"https:\/\/mml.app.link\/cbs_game_304\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Watch live<\/a>)   <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>9:45 PM<\/td>\n<td>Tampa<\/td>\n<td>(5) Texas Tech vs. (4) Alabama<\/td>\n<td>TBS<\/td>\n<td>\t\t\t\t(<a href=\"https:\/\/mml.app.link\/cbs_game_314\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Watch live<\/a>)   <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NCAA Tournament field will dwindle to just 16 teams on Sunday, when the first weekend of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":674341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[281034,2076,7218,40085,1317,11009,15776,20201,62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-674340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-bracket","tag-college-basketball","tag-live-updates","tag-march-madness","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-tournament","tag-scores","tag-second-round","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116274372911518603","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}