What games to watch during Saturday’s NCAA tournament second round

Anybody who grew up obsessive about March Insanity has their tales of how they managed to observe the NCAA match from faculty or the workplace. In highschool, I snuck a transportable handheld TV that my mother had — this was the mid-Nineties — and grabbed a glimpse of the CBS feed every time I may.

Right this moment, in fact, we’re spoiled. The entire video games are on a cable community or the March Insanity streaming app. I’ll have 4 screens going till there’s solely a necessity for 3, three till there’s solely a necessity for 2, and so forth.

However some might not be on my stage. For these of you who may have the bandwidth for one recreation at a time, right here’s my greatest guess for what would be the recreation to observe throughout every a part of the day all through the early a part of the match.

No. 1 Baylor vs. No. 8 North Carolina, 9:10 a.m., CBS: The defending nationwide champion Bears may have their arms full with the Tar Heels if the crew that blew out Marquette on Thursday exhibits up. However consistency has been North Carolina’s Achilles heel.

No. 3 Tennessee vs. No. 11 Michigan, 2:15 p.m., CBS: Within the final decade, solely Gonzaga (23) has received extra NCAA match video games than Michigan (22). The Wolverines have a approach of placing it collectively in March and have extra of a observe report than Rick Barnes’ Volunteers. That mentioned, Tennessee is a clearly higher crew this season.

No. 4 UCLA vs. No. 5 Saint Mary’s, 4:10 p.m., TBS: The Bruins had been on the point of a first-round exit in opposition to Akron, however they’re positive to play higher Saturday. They’ll need to, as a result of Saint Mary’s regarded like a crew that wishes to maintain taking part in for some time, making Indiana seem like the mid-major program.

No. 1 Gonzaga vs. No. 9 Memphis, 6:40 p.m., TBS: The Bulldogs struggled to get separation from Georgia State earlier than Drew Timme and Chet Holmgren merely took over. Memphis is among the few groups that may come near matching Gonzaga’s expertise, however the Tigers haven’t confirmed that they’ve the seasoning — but.