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The men’s Sweet 16 round tips Thursday night, with action in the Big Apple and Sin City.

The Elite Eight games are Saturday and Sunday.

The Final Four is scheduled for April 1, while the National Championship Game is scheduled for April 3.

Here's a look at the TV information for each Sweet 16 game, with the scheduled game time, channel, location and teams.

Return for updates as new matchups are determined. All times MDT.

March Madness Sweet 16 schedule

Thursday, March 23

• 4:30 p.m. TBS New York, NY (7) Michigan St. vs. (3) Kansas St.

• 5:15 p.m. CBS Las Vegas, NV (8) Arkansas vs. (4) UConn

• After conc. game 1 TBS New York, NY (9) Florida Atlantic vs. (4) Tennessee

• After conc. game 2 CBS Las Vegas, NV (3) Gonzaga vs. (2) UCLA

Friday, March 24

• 4:30 p.m. TBS Louisville, KY (5) San Diego St. vs. (1) Alabama

• 5:15 p.m. CBS Kansas City, MO (5) Miami vs. (1) Houston

• After conc. game 1 TBS Louisville, KY (15) Princeton vs. (6) Creighton

• After conc. game 2 CBS Kansas City, MO (3) Xavier vs. (2) Texas

March Madness schedule

• Sweet 16: March 23-24

• Elite Eight: March 25-26

• Final Four: April 1

• NCAA championship game: April 3

NCAA March Madness Sweet 16 bracket

Updated brackets for men's and women's tournaments can be found here.

How to watch March Madness 2023 basketball games

For the men, CBS will air the Selection Sunday show, as well as the Final Four and the national championship game. TruTV will carry the First Four. CBS, TBS, TNT and TruTV will air first- and second-round games. CBS and TBS will air Sweet 16 and Elite Eight games. CBS will air the men's Final Four and championship game.

For the women, ESPN will air the Selection Sunday show. ESPN and ABC will carry the First Four. ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPNews and ABC will air first- and second-round games. ESPN and ABC will air Sweet 16 and Elite Eight games. ABC will air the national championship game.

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Who are the March Madness 2023 broadcasters?

For the eighth consecutive year, Jim Nantz, Bill Raftery, Grant Hill and Tracy Wolfson will call the men's Final Four and championship game. This will mark Nantz's 32nd – and final – Final Four as lead play-by-play announcer. Nantz announced in October that he would be leaving the longtime role with CBS and Turner Sports to be with his family.

Jay Wright and Stan Van Gundy will join NCAA Tournament coverage as analysts. The network also tried in vain to get Dick Vitale to join its team. Vitale said he turned down the offer, in part, because of loyalty to ESPN, the network he has worked for since 1979.

Greg Gumbel will host studio coverage from the CBS Broadcast Center in New York, joined by Charles Barkley, Clark Kellogg and Kenny Smith as well as Wally Szczerbiak. Ernie Johnson will host studio coverage from WBD Studios in Atlanta alongside Jay Wright, Candace Parker and Seth Davis. Additionally, Adam Zucker and Adam Lefkoe will also serve as hosts from New York and Atlanta, respectively.

El Paso connections to NCAA basketball tournament

Connecticut will be a highly-seeded team and among their stars is Tristen Newton, a Burges alum who is the cousin of Green Bay Packers star Aaron Jones. One of his coaches is assistant Kimani Young, who played for Don Haskins at UTEP in the late 1990s.

Meanwhile, UTEP fans can lament all that got away. Texas is now coached by former Miner coach Rodney Terry. He was the top assistant when Chris Beard was fired after a domestic violence accusation and took over on an interim basis. If the Longhorns make the Sweet 16 as they will be seeded to do, Terry could lose the interim title.

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His former players, who walked the Haskins Center floor last year on senior day on the way to graduate transfers, could make their mark as well. Souley Boum, Conference USA's leading scorer last season, is putting up huge numbers as the star for Xavier, which has been ranked all year.

Two of his former Miner teammates from last year are on the bubble and probably on the correct side of it: Memphis' Keonte Kennedy and Northwestern's Tydus Verhoeven. Both are playing major roles for teams that should be middle seeds.

Texas is led by a player who beat UTEP with a buzzer beater last season, former New Mexico State Aggie Sir'Jabari Rice.

USA Today Network contributed to this report.

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