The third round of the NCAA Tournament tips off on Saturday, with sixteen games taking place over the next weekend. The action will be a little less chaotic than the first two days of the tournament, but the on-court action shouldn’t be any less exciting.
NCAA Tournament 2015: Schedule for March Madness 3rd-round games
The Sweet 16 matchups will be decided over the next two days. Here is the complete tournament schedule for the third round.
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Saturday’s slate features two of the No. 1 seeds in Kentucky and Villanova. Neither team had much problem taking care of their No. 16 seed opponents in the second round. The day also features two of the biggest upset tams in the second round, No. 14 seeds UAB and Georgia State. UAB will face UCLA, which had an upset of its own against No. 6 SMU. This game ensures that at least one double-digit team will be playing next weekend. Georgetown vs. Utah and Notre Dame vs. Butler are also interesting games to watch for.
Sunday’s action has a dream matchup between Kansas and Wichita State. The schools lie in the same state and have a fairly intense rivalry despite not playing each other since 1992. The Shockers will try to get farther than they did last year, when they ran the table in the regular season but got knocked out in the third round by Kentucky.
The Missouri Valley’s other tournament team -- Northern Iowa -- will take on Louisville in Seattle. The Panthers held off a feisty Wyoming team Friday, while Louisville had to survive a nail-biting finish against UC Irvine. The winner of that game has a likely date with Villanova in the Sweet 16. Other intriguing matchups on Sunday include Virginia vs. Michigan State, Wisconsin vs. Oregon and Gonzaga vs. Iowa.
Saturday
No. 11 UCLA vs. No. 14 UAB, 12:10 p.m., CBS
No. 1 Kentucky vs. No. 8 Cincinnati, 2:40 p.m., CBS
No. 2 Arizona vs. No. 10 Ohio State, 5:15 p.m., CBS
No. 6 Xavier vs. No. 14 Georgia State, 6:10 p.m., TNT
No. 1 Villanova vs. No. 8 N.C. State, 7:10 p.m., TBS
No. 4 Georgetown vs. No. 5 Utah, 7:45 p.m., CBS
No. 4 North Carolina vs. No. 5 Arkansas, 8:40 p.m., TNT
No. 3 Notre Dame vs. No. 6 Butler, 9:40 p.m., TBS
Sunday
No. 2 Virginia vs. No. 7 Michigan State, 12:10 p.m., CBS
No. 1 Duke vs. San Diego State, 2:40 p.m., CBS
No. 2 Kansas vs. No. 7 Wichita State, 5:15 p.m., CBS
No. 3 Oklahoma vs. Dayton, 6:10 p.m., TNT
No. 2 Gonzaga vs. No. 7, Iowa, 7:10 p.m., TBS
No. 1 Wisconsin vs. No. 8 Oregon, 7:45 p.m., CBS
No. 4 Maryland vs. No. 5 West Virginia, 8:40 p.m., TNT
No. 4 Louisville vs. No. 5 Northern Iowa, 9:40 p.m., TBS
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