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Selection Sunday 2015: Time, TV schedule for NCAA Selection Show

Everything you need to know about how to tune in for Selection Sunday.

Mark Zerof-USA TODAY Sports

The road to the Final Four, as it is called, begins Sunday night on CBS when the network will announce the brackets for the 2015 NCAA Tournament. 68 teams will hear their names called during Sunday evening's one-hour broadcast, which starts at 6 p.m. and which will be hosted by Greg Gumbel. Gumbel will be joined by CBS college basketball analysts Clark Kellogg, Doug Gottlieb and Seth Davis.

Thirty-two teams will have earned automatic bids by the way of winning their respective conference tournaments. The remaining 36 will have been chosen by the ten-member basketball selection committee. Scott Barnes, the athletic director at Utah State and selection committee chairman, will join CBS from the NCAA’s headquarters in Indianapolis to explain the committee’s selections.

Realtime Bracket Game

The NCAA Tournament will start Tuesday, March 17, in Dayton, Ohio where the four lowest ranked teams will face off. The second round of the tournament will being on Thursday, March 19.

All 67 tournament games will be broadcasted, either on CBS or one of Turner’s networks of TNT, TBS or tru TV. All broadcasts will also be accessible on the NCAA March Madness Live app.

The Final Four will begin on April 4 and will be shown on TBS while TNT and truTV will run team-specific broadcasts. The national championship will take place April 6 and air on CBS.

Everything you need to know about Selection Sunday

Time: 6 p.m. ET

TV: CBS

Live Stream: CBSSports.com, NCAA March Madness Live app

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