Your College Basketball Championship Saturday Viewing Guide: March 14, 2026

Your College Basketball Championship Saturday Viewing Guide: March 14, 2026

BUFFALO, NEW YORK - MARCH 17: The Vermont Catamounts mascot on the floor during the first round game of the 2022 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament against the Arkansas Razorbacks at KeyBank Center on March 17, 2022 in Buffalo, New York.

Vermont’s one of the few teams that I know is battling for a conference championship on Saturday as I build this post on Friday, so they get to be in the picture. | Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images

The Good News: There’s 27 nationally televised college basketball games on today.

The Better News: 17 of the 27 are tournament championship games, meaning that there is an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament on the line.

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The Slightly Less Great News: I’m putting this together on Friday afternoon so it can publish very early on Saturday morning, and right now, 16 of the 17 title games are still without at least one of the two teams participating. That’s because the semifinals for those conferences are going on today and Semifinal Friday is really only just now getting going.

And so, I will drop this schedule of events in for you, and as possible, I will update it with the important things like “who is actually in the game.” The day gets started very early with the men’s America East final between Vermont and UMBC as well as the women’s MAC final between Miami and a mystery partner. Business picks up at 5pm Central time tonight, as every game that starts after that point — 10 of them! — will have an automatic bid on the line. Hopefully we get some drama out of all of this, right?

Feel free to use the comments section as a Live Thread/Open Thread/Chat Thread/whatever for the day!

Here’s the full national television schedule for the day, with all times Central, as always.

Time (CT)

Game

Television

10:00 AM

Ivy League Semifinal: Cornell vs Yale

ESPNU

America East Final: Vermont at UMBC

ESPN2

MAC Final: Toledo vs Miami

CBS Sports Network

12:00 PM

SEC Semifinal: #22 Vanderbilt vs #4 Florida

ESPN

MEAC Final: North Carolina Central vs Howard

ESPN2

Big Ten Semifinal: #23 Wisconsin vs #3 Michigan

CBS

Atlantic 10 Semifinal: Dayton vs Saint Louis

CBS Sports Network

SWAC Final: Southern vs Alabama State

ESPNU

1:00 PM

Ivy League Semifinal: Penn vs Harvard

ESPN News

2:00 PM

American Semifinal: Charlotte vs South Florida

ESPN2

2:30 PM

SEC Semifinal: Ole Miss vs #17 Arkansas

ESPN

Big Ten Semifinal: #18 Purdue vs UCLA

CBS

Atlantic 10 Semifinal: Saint Joseph’s vs VCU

CBS Sports Network

WAC Final: Abilene Christian vs Cal Baptist

ESPNU

3:00 PM

MEAC Final: Norfolk State vs Howard

ESPN News

4:30 PM

American Semifinal: Tulsa vs Wichita State

ESPN2

Ivy League Final: Harvard vs #23 Princeton

ESPNU

CUSA Final: Missouri State vs Louisiana Tech

CBS Sports Network

5:00 PM

Mountain West Final: San Diego State vs Utah State

CBS

Big 12 Final: #5 Houston vs #2 Arizona

ESPN

5:30 PM

Big East Final: #6 UConn vs #13 St. John’s

Fox

6:30 PM

SWAC Final: Prairie View A&M vs Southern

ESPNU

7:00 PM

MAC Final: Toledo vs Akron

ESPN2

7:30 PM

ACC Final: #10 Virginia vs #1 Duke

ESPN

CUSA Final: Kennesaw State vs Louisiana Tech

CBS Sports Network

8:30 PM

American Final: UTSA vs Rice

ESPNU

9:00 PM

Big West Final: Hawaii vs UC Irvine

ESPN2

11:00 PM

WAC Final: Cal Baptist vs Utah Valley

ESPN2

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