>>NCAA Tournament Begins Today
(Undated) — The NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament begins today with a pair of First Four matchups in Dayton. The action gets started with Southeast Missouri State facing fellow 16-seed Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. Pittsburgh and Mississippi State then meet in a battle of 11-seeds. Our Coverage begins at 5:30pm on NewsRadio 99.3 FM and 1230 AM WHOP. The First Four continues Wednesday when Fairleigh Dickinson takes on Texas Southern in a 16-versus-16 showdown. Arizona State and Nevada will clash in a battle of 11-seeds later Wednesday. The tournament then kicks into full swing on Thursday with 16 first-round games on the slate. Meanwhile Vanderbilt hosts Yale tonight in the NIT bracket. Tennessee is the fourth seed in the NCAA tournament’s East region and will face Number-13 Louisiana-Lafayette on Thursday in Orlando. Two other schools tip off in the East region on Friday. Number-6 Kentucky squares off against 11th-ranked Providence in Greensboro while eighth-seeded Memphis will play Number-9 Florida Atlantic in Columbus.