{"id":676443,"date":"2026-03-23T17:23:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T17:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/676443\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T17:23:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T17:23:13","slug":"heres-the-2026-ncaa-tournament-sweet-sixteen-announcing-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/676443\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s the 2026 NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen announcing schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the first weekend in the books, the 2026 NCAA Tournament has been whittled down to 16 teams.<\/p>\n<p>To get here, we saw a first round that didn\u2019t feature too many Cinderellas (<a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/college-basketball\/high-point-student-announcers-lose-minds-wisconsin-upset.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">High Point\u2019s win over Wisconsin<\/a> was the high point), but we did see some great finishes during the weekend. We also saw one No. 1 seed fall when Iowa held off the defending national champion, the Florida Gators, <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/college-basketball\/ben-mccollum-sensitive-florida-todd-golden-officials-iowa.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in a chippy affair<\/a>.\u00a0In the end, we\u2019ve got a Sweet Sixteen that\u2019s mostly chalk but does feature some surprising matchups and a legitimate shot at an all-Big Ten Final Four.<\/p>\n<p>All games will be shown across CBS Sports and TNT Sports networks: CBS, TBS, and truTV. Games shown on CBS will also be available on Paramount+, while games shown on TBS and truTV will also be available on HBO Max.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MM_MBB_TV\/status\/2035909611580961112\" rel=\"nofollow\">March Madness schedule<\/a> with the tip times, TV networks, and broadcasting crews for the Regional Semifinal round of the men\u2019s NCAA Tournament. All times are Eastern (ET).<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, March 26<\/p>\n<p>(11) Texas vs. (2) Purdue | 7:10 p.m. | CBS; Brian Anderson, Jim Jackson, Allie LaForce<\/p>\n<p>(9) Iowa vs. (4) Nebraska | 7:30 p.m. | TBS\/truTV; Kevin Harlan, Robbie Hummel, Stan Van Gundy, Lauren Shehadi<\/p>\n<p>(4) Arkansas vs. (1) Arizona | 9:45 p.m. | CBS; Brian Anderson, Jim Jackson, Allie LaForce<\/p>\n<p>(3) Illinois vs. (2) Houston | 10:05 p.m. | TBS\/truTV; Kevin Harlan, Robbie Hummel, Stan Van Gundy, Lauren Shehadi<\/p>\n<p>Friday, March 27<\/p>\n<p>(5) St. John\u2019s vs. (1) Duke | 7:10 p.m. | CBS; Ian Eagle, Bill Raftery, Grant Hill, Tracy Wolfson<\/p>\n<p>(4) Alabama vs. (1) Michigan | 7:35 p.m. | TBS\/truTV; Andrew Catalon, Steve Lappas, Evan Washburn<\/p>\n<p>(2) UConn vs. (3) Michigan State | 9:45 p.m. | CBS; Ian Eagle, Bill Raftery, Grant Hill, Tracy Wolfson<\/p>\n<p>(6) Tennessee vs. (2) Iowa State | 10:10 p.m. | TBS\/truTV; Andrew Catalon, Steve Lappas, Evan Washburn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the first weekend in the books, the 2026 NCAA Tournament has been whittled down to 16 teams.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":676444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[285102,278947,51,40085,275349,50,143954,52,24683],"class_list":["post-676443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-2026-ncaa-tournament","tag-cbb-on-cbs","tag-headlines","tag-march-madness","tag-march-madness-2026","tag-news","tag-tbs","tag-top-stories","tag-trutv"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116279654007374420","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676443","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=676443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}