NCAA Basketball March Madness 2019: GA's Seed, TV Time, Bracket

ATLANTA, GA — March Madness is finally here and Georgia State made into the big dance. The NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament begins Tuesday, with the First Four and ends April 8 with the National Championship game. The 2019 NCAA men's basketball national tournament will be much like the March Madness of years past: Duke's No. 1 overall. North Carolina's in. Michigan's set. Defending champion Villanova gets a chance to repeat.

Georgia State is the No. 14 seed, making their fifth appearance in the NCAA Tournament beginning Friday. They will face the No. 3 seed, Houston, in a Midwest Region first-round contest in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Georgia State earned a 24-9 record in 2019, making its second-straight appearance for the first time in program history. This is the third time they've been in the tourney in the last five years.

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Georgia State head coach Ron Hunter holds a piece of the net after playing Texas-Arlington in the NCAA college basketball championship game of the Sun Belt Conference men's tournament in New Orleans, Sunday, March 17, 2019. Georgia State won 73-64. (AP Photo/Tyler Kaufman)

Georgia State will face Houston (31-3) Friday night at 7:20 p.m. on TBS. Georgia State will be facing Houston for the first time in school history. The winner will face No. 6 Iowa State and No. 11 Ohio State on Sunday.

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The NCAA Tournament will be broadcast across several stations, including truTV, CBS, TNT and TBS. TruTV will broadcast the First Four (March 19-20). CBS, truTV, TNT and TBS will all broadcast portions of the first- and second-round games from March 21-24. From there, the Sweet 16 and Elite Eight (March 28-31) will be covered exclusively by CBS and TBS. CBS hold broadcast rights for the Final Four (April 6) and national championship game (April 8).

All games will be streamed on NCAA March Madness Live.

Here are the First Four, to be broadcast Tuesday, March 19

• Prairie View vs. Farleigh Dickinson, 6:30 p.m., truTV
• Temple vs. Belmont, 9 p.m., TruTV
• NC Central vs. North Dakota State, 6:30 p.m., truTV
• St. John's vs. Arizona State 9 p.m., truTV

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