Ok, it’s late, but we have the tip times and the announcing assignments for Saturday’s Third Round games in the NCAA Tournament. CBS has its traditional Saturday quadruple header. TBS and TNT will both have two games apiece. truTV won’t have a game on Saturday, but will have one on Sunday.
CBS will begin the day with an exclusive afternoon doubleheader starting at 12:15 p.m. ET. TNT joins at 6:10 p.m. then TBS jumps in at 7:10 p.m.
The day begins with Syracuse vs. Kansas State in Pittsburgh on CBS and will conclude with Louisville vs. New Mexico in Portland, OR on TBS. Overall, it will almost 12 hours of wall-to-wall basketball on the CBS/Turner consortium. Here’s the press release.
CBS SPORTS AND TURNER SPORTS ANNOUNCE TIP-TIMES AND MATCH-UPS FOR THIRD-ROUND GAMES ON SATURDAY, MARCH 17
Exclusive Coverage Continues with Second-Round on Friday, March 16
Turner Sports and CBS Sports announce tip-times and match-ups for third-round coverage of the 2012 NCAA® Division I Men’s Basketball Championship on Saturday, March 17 (12:00 NOON-12:00 AM, ET) with all games available in their entirety across three national television networks: TBS, CBS, and TNT. Exclusive live coverage continues with second-round action on Friday, March 16 (11:00 AM-12:00 AM, ET).
Studio coverage continues with Greg Gumbel and Ernie Johnson sharing hosting duties each day. Charles Barkley, Greg Anthony and Kenny Smith provide analysis throughout the tournament alongside Gumbel or Johnson from the CBS Broadcast Center in New York. St. John’s head coach Steve Lavin joins the New York Studio on Saturday and Sunday. Matt Winer hosts the studio coverage from Turner’s Atlanta studio with analysts Seth Davis, Steve Smith on Saturday and Sunday. Villanova head coach Jay Wright joins the Atlanta studio on Friday.
Following are the tip-times for Saturday’s third-round games, as well as the announce team assignments. Tip-times for the third-round games on Sunday will be announced on Friday after the conclusion of the day’s games. For a complete channel guide click on MyChannels at NCAA.com/MyChannels.
NCAA March Madness® Live provides a robust suite of products including live streaming video of all 67 games from the 2012 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship; personal channel lineup (MyChannel) features and schedule updates; social media integration; and real-time brackets, scores and stats across online and mobile platforms.
THIRD ROUND GAMES
SATURDAY, MARCH 17 (12:00 Noon-12:00 AM, ET)
Time Network Site Game Play-by-Play/Analyst//Reporter 12:15 PM CBS Pittsburgh I Syracuse. vs. Kansas St. Kevin Harlan/Len Elmore/Reggie Miller// Marty Snider 2:45 PM CBS Pittsburgh II Ohio St. vs. Gonzaga Kevin Harlan/Len Elmore/Reggie Miller// Marty Snider 5:15 PM CBS Louisville I Marquette vs. Murray St. Verne Lundquist/Bill Raftery// Lesley Visser 6:10 PM TNT Albuquerque I Wisconsin vs. Vanderbilt Spero Dedes/Bob Wenzel// Jaime Maggio 7:10 PM TBS Portland I Indiana vs. VCU Brian Anderson/Dan Bonner// Jenn Hildreth 7:45 PM CBS Louisville II Kentucky vs. Iowa St. Verne Lundquist/Bill Raftery// Lesley Visser 8:40 PM TNT Albuquerque II Baylor vs. Colorado Spero Dedes/Bob Wenzel// Jamie Maggio 9:40 PM TBS Portland II Louisville vs. New Mexico Brian Anderson/Dan Bonner// Jenn Hildreth
That will do it.
