March 12, 2023

Warner Bros. Discovery Sports and CBS Sports’ Exclusive Coverage of the
2023 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship Tips Off Tuesday,
March 14  
  
Tip Times and Announce Teams Set for NCAA Tournament First Four and First Round
Coverage  
  
CBS Sports and Warner Bros. Discover Sports’ exclusive coverage of the 2023 NCAA Division
I Men’s Basketball Championship will tip off with the NCAA First Four on truTV, Tuesday,
March 14, and Wednesday, March 15 (6 p.m. ET, both days). First round game coverage will be
held on Thursday, March 16, and Friday, March 17 (Noon-Midnight, both days), with all games
available live in their entirety across four national television networks – TBS, CBS, TNT and
truTV – and NCAA March Madness Live.  
  
The following are tip times and commentator assignments for the NCAA First Four and first
round games. Tip times for Saturday’s second round games will be announced after the
conclusion of Thursday’s games. Sunday’s tip times will be released after the conclusion of play
on Friday.  
  
This year’s NCAA Men’s Final Four National Semifinals on Saturday, April 1, along with the
National Championship on Monday, April 3, will air on CBS.  

NCAA First Four – Tuesday, March 14

Tip (ET) Network Site Game Play-by-Play/Analyst//Reporter
6:40 p.m. truTV Dayton, OH (16) SE Missouri St. vs. (16) Tom McCarthy / Avery Johnson // Jon
Texas A&M-CC Rothstein
9:10 p.m. truTV Dayton, OH (11) Pitt vs. (11) Mississippi St. McCarthy / Johnson // Rothstein
NCAA First Four – Wednesday, March 15
Tip (ET) Network Site Game Play-by-Play/Analyst//Reporter
6:40 p.m. truTV Dayton, OH (16) Fairleigh Dickinson vs. McCarthy / Johnson // Rothstein
(16) Texas Southern
9:10 p.m. truTV Dayton, OH (11) Nevada vs. (11) Arizona McCarthy / Johnson // Rothstein
St.
First Round Games – Thursday Afternoon, March 16
Tip (ET) Network Site Game Play-by-Play/Analyst//Reporter
12:15 CBS Birmingham, (9) Maryland vs. (8) West Jim Nantz / Bill Raftery / Grant Hill //
p.m. AL Virginia Tracy Wolfson
12:40 truTV Orlando, FL (13) Furman vs. (4) Virginia Kevin Harlan / Dan Bonner / Stan Van
p.m. Gundy // Lauren Shehadi
1:40 p.m. TNT Sacramento, (10) Utah St. vs. (7) Missouri Brad Nessler / Brendan Haywood //
CA Dana Jacobson
2:00 p.m. TBS Des Moines, IA (16) Howard vs. (1) Kansas Brian Anderson / Jim Jackson // Allie
LaForce
2:45 p.m. CBS Birmingham, (16) SE Missouri St./Texas Nantz / Raftery / Hill // Wolfson
AL A&M-CC vs. (1) Alabama
3:10 p.m. truTV Orlando, FL (12) Col. of Charleston vs. (5) Harlan / Bonner / Van Gundy //
San Diego St. Shehadi
4:10 p.m. TNT Sacramento, (15) Princeton vs. (2) Arizona Nessler / Haywood // Jacobson
CA
4:30 p.m. TBS Des Moines, IA (9) Illinois vs. (8) Arkansas Anderson / Jackson // LaForce
First Round Games – Thursday Evening, March 16
Tip (ET) Network Site Game Play-by-Play/Analyst//Reporter
6:50 p.m. TNT Birmingham, (9) Auburn vs. (8) Iowa Nantz / Raftery / Hill // Wolfson
AL
7:10 p.m. CBS Orlando, FL (12) Oral Roberts vs. (5) Duke Harlan / Bonner / Van Gundy //
Shehadi
7:25 p.m. TBS Des Moines, IA (15) Colgate vs. (2) Texas Anderson / Jackson // LaForce
7:35 p.m. truTV Sacramento, (10) Boise St. vs. (7) Nessler / Haywood // Jacobson
CA Northwestern
9:20 p.m. TNT Birmingham, (16) N. Kentucky vs. (1) Nantz / Raftery / Hill // Wolfson
AL Houston
9:40 p.m. CBS Orlando, FL (13) Louisiana vs. (4) Harlan / Bonner / Van Gundy //
Tennessee Shehadi
9:55 p.m. TBS Des Moines, IA (10) Penn St. vs. (7) Texas Anderson / Jackson // LaForce
A&M
10:05 truTV Sacramento, (15) UNC Asheville vs. (2) Nessler / Haywood // Jacobson
p.m. CA UCLA
First Round Games – Friday Afternoon, March 17
Tip (ET) Network Site Game Play-by-Play/Analyst//Reporter
12:15 CBS Columbus, OH (10) USC vs. (7) Michigan St. Andrew Catalon / Steve Lappas //
p.m. Jamie Erdahl
12:40 truTV Greensboro, (14) Kennesaw St. vs. (3) Ian Eagle / Jim Spanarkel // Evan
p.m. NC Xavier Washburn
1:30 p.m. TNT Denver, CO (14) UC Santa Barbara vs. (3) Lisa Byington / Steve Smith / Avery
Baylor Johnson // Andy Katz
2:00 p.m. TBS Albany, NY (12) VCU vs. (5) Saint Mary’s Spero Dedes / Deb Antonelli // AJ
Ross
2:45 p.m. CBS Columbus, OH (15) Vermont vs. (2) Marquette Catalon / Lappas // Erdahl
3:10 p.m. truTV Greensboro, (11) Mississippi St./Pitt vs. (6) Eagle / Spanarkel // Washburn
NC Iowa St.
4:00 p.m. TNT Denver, CO (11) NC State vs. (6) Creighton Byington / Smith / Johnson // Katz
4:30 p.m. TBS Albany, NY (13) Iona vs. (4) UConn Dedes / Antonelli // Ross
First Round Games – Friday Evening, March 17
Tip (ET) Network Site Game Play-by-Play/Analyst//Reporter
6:50 p.m. TNT Columbus, OH (16) Texas Southern/Fairleigh Catalon / Lappas // Erdahl
Dickinson vs. (1) Purdue
7:10 p.m. CBS Greensboro, (11) Providence vs. (6) Eagle / Spanarkel // Washburn
NC Kentucky
7:25 p.m. TBS Albany, NY (12) Drake vs. (5) Miami Dedes / Antonelli // Ross
7:35 p.m. truTV Denver, CO (14) Grand Canyon vs. (3) Byington / Smith / Johnson // Katz
Gonzaga
9:20 p.m. TNT Columbus, OH (9) Florida Atlantic vs. (8) Catalon / Lappas // Erdahl
Memphis
9:40 p.m. CBS Greensboro, (14) Montana St. vs. (3) Kansas Eagle / Spanarkel // Washburn
NC St.
9:55 p.m. TBS Albany, NY (13) Kent St. vs. (4) Indiana Dedes / Antonelli // Ross
10:05 truTV Denver, CO (11) Arizona St./Nevada vs. (6) Byington / Smith / Johnson // Katz
p.m. TCU

NCAA Tournament production teams are as follows:

Site/Producer/Director
Birmingham, AL – Mark Wolff/Mark Grant
Des Moines, IA – Tom Heitz/Andy Greathouse
Greensboro, NC – Craig Silver/Suzanne Smith
Orlando, FL – Ken Mack/Mike Arnold
Albany, NY – Steve McKee/Jim Cornell and Kimani Morales/Andy Freedman
Columbus, OH – Jonathan Segal/Bill Thayer and Andy Goldberg
Denver, CO – Bert Bondi/Matt Lipp
Sacramento, CA – Ryan Galvin/Chris Svendsen
Dayton, OH (First Four) – Jason Ross/Cory Fishman

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