The Final Four begins Saturday night, with back-to-back national semifinals kicking off college basketball’s greatest spectacle. Villanova faces Oklahoma in the first game, as the No. 2 seeds in the South and West regions duel for a spot in Monday’s title game. Afterward, North Carolina faces Syracuse, matching up two programs with a ton of tradition, only one of which was widely expected to get this far.
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On the surface, the Villanova-Oklahoma semifinal is likely to be the more competitive of the two. The Wildcats and Sooners entered the tournament on the same seed line, and both teams are elite on both sides of the ball. Villanova has been a little bit better over the course of the season, probably, but Oklahoma has Buddy Hield, who’s developed into college basketball’s most lethal assassin and is averaging a cool 29 points in four tournament games.
North Carolina is a lot better than Syracuse, and it won’t make much sense if the Orange manage to beat the Tar Heels. Then again, nothing about Syracuse’s run to the Final Four has made much sense, other than that Syracuse is in the Final Four again. The Orange lost five of six games entering this event and didn’t win an ACC Tournament game, but they snuck into the Big Dance as a 10th seed, and here they are.
This has been a wild NCAA Tournament. Nothing in this Final Four will be surprising, unless nothing surprising happens at all. Whatever happens, the action gets started around dinnertime on Saturday.
Both game broadcasts will also feature what the NCAA is calling “Team Stream” broadcasts on alternate channels, tailored specifically to fans of the teams playing.
Here’s the full TV and streaming schedule. All times are Eastern:
No. 2 Oklahoma vs. No. 2 Villanova, 6:09 p.m., TBS
Stream: NCAA March Madness Live
Jim Nantz, Bill Raftery, Grant Hill, Tracy Wolfson
Oklahoma Team Stream: TNT, 6 p.m.
Villanova Team Stream: truTV, 6 p.m.
No. 1 North Carolina vs. No. 10 Syracuse, 8:49 p.m., TBS
Stream: NCAA March Madness Live
Nantz, Raftery, Hill, Wolfson
North Carolina Team Stream: TNT, following first game
Syracuse Team Stream: truTV, following first game
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