RTC Live will be in both Newark and San Antonio tonight for another night of Sweet Sixteen action that includes not one, two or three, but four double-digit seeds — will more than one remain after this evening? Join our correspondents as they take you through tonight’s games from courtside. Feel free to pepper them with questions and commentary throughout the night!
RTC Live will be in both New Orleans and Anaheim tonight for what promises to be a great opening night of Sweet Sixteen action. Join our correspondents as they take you through tonight’s games from courtside. Feel free to pepper them with questions and commentary throughout the night!
Everybody who’s been doing this as long as we have knows that the best games of the NCAA Tournament are found on the opening weekend, meaning the Saturday and Sunday of what used to be called the Second Round. In that round, you’ve gotten rid of most of the overrated pretenders, and you’re left with 32 teams that for the most part are really playing well at the end of the season. RTC Live will be back at the four regional sites today — Charlotte, Cleveland, Chicago and Tulsa — with our correspondents reporting on the sights and sounds of each of the eight games around the nation. Join us for some conversation, questions, answers and what’s sure to be some great basketball all afternoon and late into the evening today.
Everybody who’s been doing this as long as we have knows that the best games of the NCAA Tournament are found on the opening weekend, meaning the Saturday and Sunday of what used to be called the Second Round. In that round, you’ve gotten rid of most of the overrated pretenders, and you’re left with 32 teams that for the most part are really playing well at the end of the season. RTC Live will be back at the four regional sites today — Tampa, Washington, Denver and Tucson — with our correspondents reporting on the sights and sounds of each of the eight games around the nation. Join us for some conversation, questions, answers and what’s sure to be some great basketball all afternoon and late into the evening today.
RTC Live is proud to have the entire NCAA Tournament covered from First Four to Final Four this season. Our correspondents have scattered throughout the nation in order to report from the most consistently entertaining and fulfilling American sporting event. The format of our NCAA version of RTC Live is a little different than what we do during the regular season — rather than focusing separately on individual games, we will instead utilize our multiple correspondents who are courtside at each site to report from all of the games in a given session. For example, this afternoon we will be reporting on the ins and outs from the eight Second Round games in Chicago, Charlotte, Cleveland and Tulsa; later this evening we’ll be back with another RTC Live session to cover the evening games. To make this as interactive as possible, we welcome questions and commentary from those of you out there watching on television or tracking from your computers — let us act as your eyes and ears from the court level. Join us all day as we drown ourselves in a hoops bacchanalia!
Evening Schedule
RTC Live is proud to have the entire NCAA Tournament covered from First Four to Final Four this season. Our correspondents have scattered throughout the nation in order to report from the most consistently entertaining and fulfilling American sporting event. The format of our NCAA version of RTC Live is a little different than what we do during the regular season — rather than focusing separately on individual games, we will instead utilize our multiple correspondents who are courtside at each site to report from all of the games in a given session. For example, this afternoon we will be reporting on the ins and outs from the eight Second Round games in Chicago, Charlotte, Cleveland and Tulsa; later this evening we’ll be back with another RTC Live session to cover the evening games. To make this as interactive as possible, we welcome questions and commentary from those of you out there watching on television or tracking from your computers — let us act as your eyes and ears from the court level. Join us all day as we drown ourselves in a hoops bacchanalia!
Afternoon Schedule
RTC Live is proud to have the entire NCAA Tournament covered from First Four to Final Four this season. Our correspondents have scattered throughout the nation in order to report from the most consistently entertaining and fulfilling American sporting event. The format of our NCAA version of RTC Live is a little different than what we do during the regular season — rather than focusing separately on individual games, we will instead utilize our multiple correspondents who are courtside at each site to report from all of the games in a given session. For example, this afternoon we will be reporting on the ins and outs from the eight Second Round games in Tampa, Washington, Denver and Tucson; later this evening we’ll be back with another RTC Live session to cover the evening games. To make this as interactive as possible, we welcome questions and commentary from those of you out there watching on television or tracking from your computers — let us act as your eyes and ears from the court level. Join us all day as we drown ourselves in a hoops bacchanalia (green color is purely coincidental)!
Evening Schedule
RTC Live is proud to have the entire NCAA Tournament covered from First Four to Final Four this season. Our correspondents have scattered throughout the nation in order to report from the most consistently entertaining and fulfilling American sporting event. The format of our NCAA version of RTC Live is a little different than what we do during the regular season — rather than focusing separately on individual games, we will instead utilize our multiple correspondents who are courtside at each site to report from all of the games in a given session. For example, this afternoon we will be reporting on the ins and outs from the eight Second Round games in Tampa, Washington, Denver and Tucson; later this evening we’ll be back with another RTC Live session to cover the evening games. To make this as interactive as possible, we welcome questions and commentary from those of you out there watching on television or tracking from your computers — let us act as your eyes and ears from the court level. Join us all day as we drown ourselves in a hoops bacchanalia (green color is purely coincidental)!
Afternoon Schedule
Tonight, two more from the First Four in Dayton. First, at 6:30 PM ET, SWAC Tournament champions Alabama State take on Texas-San Antonio, winners of the Southland Conference tournament. ASU prides itself on its defense, ranking in the top 30 nationally in turnovers forced and 2FG%. The Roadrunners, on the other hand, are more of a balanced squad and will look to speed things up. The Hornets won’t shy from a fast pace, but as good as their defense within the three-point arc is, their defense of the three point shot ranks as one of the worst in the game, so you can bet UTSA will look for long range opportunities in transition. The winner gets overall #1 Ohio State on Friday.
The second game has a pair of at-large bid earners battling for the right to face Georgetown in Chicago in 48 hours. Nikola Vucevic averaged a double-double (17.3 PPG, 10.2 RPG) this year and Alex Stepheson (10/9.2) wasn’t far from one, but they and the rest of their USC mates will have their hands full trying to keep up with a VCU team that launches threes with abandon. It will also be interesting to see if the Rams play with a bit of a chip on their collective shoulder; since the bracket was released on Sunday, VCU (along with UAB) has been treated like an uninvited guest who shows up at a party and then promptly knocks over the drink table.
Welcome to…history.
RTC is proud to be in Dayton for the debut of the First Four. No mere kickoff event, this, and certainly no play-in set of games, so don’t even call it that. This is the official first round of the NCAA Tournament. Each of the two days will feature a game between two winners of smaller-conference tournaments followed by a game pitting two of the last four at-larges granted admission. On Tuesday, Solomon Bozeman leads his Arkansas-Little Rock Trojans and one of the best three point shooting teams in the nation (their 39.8% from range was 12th in the country) against Big South Tournament champions UNC-Asheville, who will try to keep the pace quick and coax unforced errors out of UALR (UNCA forced 17 turnovers per game against its opponents, 7th nationally). After that one, UAB and their trio of double-figure scorers — namely, Jamarr Sanders (17.7 PPG), Cameron Moore (14.3 PPG, 9.3 RPG) and Aaron Johnson (12.0 PPG, 7.7 APG) — take on Clemson, a team whose defense held opponents to 0.898 points per possession during the season, 10th in the nation. The first game tips off at 6:30 PM ET on TruTV. We hope you’ll have us alongside for both of them, and join in the conversation. Let’s Dance!
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