March Madness guide: Follow the NCAA basketball tournament here

March 21, 2021 at 2:43PM
Connecticut's Paige Bueckers, right, dances over to teammates while celebrating an NCAA college basketball game win in the Big East tournament finals against Marquette at Mohegan Sun Arena, Monday, March 8, 2021, in Uncasville, Conn. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
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The NCAA men's basketball tournament is on. The women's tournament starts Sunday.

By Monday night, the men's tournament will be down to 16 teams and that will be the case for the women at the end of the basketball day on Wednesday. We know some of you are going to be binge watching hoops for the next few days. There are links in this guide that should bring you some added value.

For those of you who aren't making that commitment, the links below will get you to the latest scores, game reports, match-ups and more.

Tap on the links below to get everything you need to keep up with the tournaments.

All of the games and their starting times through Sunday night are available in our sports TV/radio listings. Games are being shown on four networks: CBS, TNT, TBS and TruTV.

Score updates, box scores and game reports are here for the men and here for the women

Tournament brackets: Men | Women

Latest game stories and news are on our college basketball page

You want point spreads and other information (for entertainment purposes only, at least in Minnesota)? Here's our favorite site.

La Velle E. Neal III on Minnehaha Academy's (and Gonzaga's) Jalen Suggs

Jim Souhan on the six Minnesota women playing for Lehigh

More Minnesota angles? Here are eight men to watch in the tournament and eight women to watch

101-year-old Sister Jean has a seat in the house with Loyola. Her story

Hot tips: College basketball writer Marcus Fuller has 16 of them for your bracket. He also talked his way through the men's tournament on this episode of StribSports Live.

These five coaches are in the tournament. Could one of them end up coaching the Gophers?

Remember the NIT? It hasn't gone away. Here's the bracket for 16 teams not sweet enough for the NCAA's 68-team men's field. The women have a 32-team field and here's that bracket.

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