The 2018 NCAA Tournament gets underway with a quartet of games in Dayton, Ohio beginning Tuesday night with the First Four, as the tournament gets trimmed from the initial field of 68 down to 64.
NCAA First Four schedule & matchups set for Dayton
The Pac-12 has two teams playing in the First Four with both the UCLA Bruins and Arizona State Sun Devils fighting for separate No. 11 seeds in the East and Midwest Regions, respectively.
The First Four starts off with two teams fighting for No. 16 seeds on Tuesday night, with LIU-Brooklyn and Radford battling at 6:40 p.m. ET. A win here earns a matchup with East Region top seed Villanova Wildcats.
That game is followed by UCLA playing the St. Bonaventure Bonnies, who lost in the Atlantic 10 conference tournament but still received an at-large bid. The winner here gets the No. 11 seed in the East Region and a first-round matchup with the Florida Gators.
Wednesday features North Carolina Central Eagles facing the under-.500 Texas Southern Tigers, followed by ASU taking on Syracuse for the No. 11 seed in the Midwest Region, fighting for the right to face No. 6 seed TCU.
Xaiver Musketeers awaits the North Carolina Central-Texas Southern winner in the West Region.
All four games on Tuesday and Wednesday will be televised by truTV.
First Four schedule
Tuesday, March 13
No. 16 LIU Brooklyn vs. No. 16 Radford, 6:40 p.m. ET
No. 11 St. Bonaventure vs. No. 11 UCLA, 9:10 p.m. ET
Wednesday, March 14
No. 16 North Carolina Central vs. No. 16 Texas Southern, 6:40 p.m. ET
No. 11 Arizona State vs. No. 11 Syracuse, 9:10 p.m. ET
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