NCAA Basketball March Madness 2019: NC Seeds, TV Time, Bracket

CHARLOTTE, NC — March Madness is finally here and four North Carolina teams made into the big dance. The NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament begins Tuesday, March 19, with the First Four and ends April 8 with the National Championship game.

Coach Mike Krzyzewski, perhaps the most recognizable college basketball coach ever, has his Duke Blue Devils poised to go deep into yet another tournament after winning the ACC Tournament. Rival North Carolina is also a No. 1 seed, along with Virginia and Gonzaga. Defending champ Villanova is a No. 6 seed this year.

CBS Sports and Turner Sports will provide live coverage of all 67 games from the 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship across four national television networks – TBS, CBS, TNT and truTV. All games will be streamed on NCAA March Madness Live.

• Full bracket of NCAA selected teams for 2019 men's basketball national tournament.
• Printable blank bracket of 2019 NCAA men's basketball national tournament.
• 2019 NCAA men's basketball national tournament schedule, television information.
• 2019 NCAA men's basketball national tournament automatic bids.
• Livestream to Selection Sunday, NCAA men's national basketball tournament.

The annual tournament, which dates to 1939, is regarded as one of the most unpredictable sporting events in all of sports, with big upsets and Cinderella stories seeming to be written every year. Last year University of Maryland-Baltimore County made history when the Retrievers squashed the Virginia Cavaliers in a major upset, 74-54. To say the UMBC Retrievers were underdogs would be an understatement; no Number-16 seed had ever upset a basketball team in the top slot in an NCAA tournament.

In 2006, George Mason University became the second 11-seed in history to reach the Final Four. Just last season, the Xavier Musketeers, seeded 11th out of a possible 16 seeds, reached the Elite Eight. The South Carolina Gamecocks, seeded 7th, made it all the way to the Final Four in the same tournament.

UCLA has the most titles with 11. The University of Kentucky has the second-most with eight championships and the University of North Carolina has six.

Patch Editor Deb Belt contributed