2018 NCAA Tournament TV schedule

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Link to NCAA.com TV Schedule

NOTE WELL — this official schedule shows #1 KU v #16 Penn this Thursday at 1:00 PM CENTRAL on TBS

BUT BE ADVISED — my programmed recording on DirecTV shows a start time of 12:50 PM!

Updated the time for Central Time and for a slight change in the actual TV listing (1:50PM ET changed to 2:00PM ET since last night).

Thanks for catching that, JR. I did not notice that because we don't do over the air -- it's either satellite or internet in our house.

I do note that the NCAA.com TV schedule also has a streaming link for each game that takes the user to an NCAA.com streaming site set up for that game. No having to look around elsewhere on the site to find the game you want. No other app is needed in between to see the games. Each game can be streamed to a computer, and if you can mirror your computer to your TV (or just connect your computer to your TV via HDMI cable for the best picture), you still get to watch on the big screen.

So although OTA-only households are limited to those CBS games, the NCAA does seem to be making every effort to enhance viewing opportunities for as many as possible.

And you have to admit if ABC and NBC joined up with CBS to provide OTA coverage for the whole tournament... well, then we'd be on the lookout for a significant uptick in human sacrifices, dogs and cats living together and other forms of mass hysteria.

Yeah, i got your point, JR. It's the sitting at the kiddie table slight, and I'm also not crazy about it.
Guess KU (and the Big 12) just gotta win to get some more national respect.

DSL?

Dang, I figured you were cable cutters, but I didn't realize you were using the equivalent of a steam engine to access the Net!

How fast is your DSL connection?

We stopped using DSL for cable years ago, but I know the DSL tech is vastly improved since then.

With watching Netflix and Amazon Prime and computing, I've pegged us at 60 Mbps download minimum (and the internet speed tests work out to just a little better than that).

I understand the cost argument completely, JR. Anna and I are both retired, so our retirement plans and investments are what keep us afloat these days. Thankfully we socked a lot away over the 34 years we've been married, so we are in good shape and can afford some luxuries like higher speed internet access and the occasional trip to see friends in Hawai'i and elsewhere.

We finally got DirecTV last year because we got tired of the constant cable price increases that were accompanied by the elimination of some of our favorite channels (e.g., BBC America). We cut the TV cord with MIDCO (the latest owner of what used to be Sunflower Cable) but kept their Internet access.

When we moved to DirectTV we were also going to go to ATT Internet, as they told us our neighborhood in NW Lawrence had fiber optic cable and could easily handle the speeds we wanted and even more if we desired to upgrade later. But we ended up keeping MIDCO solely for our ISP because the ATT story wasn't quite true.

The ATT tech who came to setup ATT access told us there was indeed a fiber optic node they had run into our general neighborhood a few years back, but ATT has NEVER found it cost effective to run any lines off of that node (which is only about 1/2 mile away from us as the crow flies), so the best their tech could give us wouldn't even top 20 Mbps. Since that was not what we signed up for, we canceled the ISP part of the contract with them and stayed with MIDCO. Still ended up saving about $100/month on our old TV&ISP bill, so it's been well worth the change.

And we've been very happy with DirecTV, would not go back to cable TV at all at this point.

Too bad about the Wichita tickets for KU. Here's to KU making it to Omaha (and beyond), and Wichita State getting to Boston (and beyond). Looks like the only way for the two to meet is to make the Final Four. Too bad they didn't set it up so that two Kansas schools had the opportunity to play each other in the title game. Of course, the TV folks would be apoplectic if that ever actually happened!

Have fun in Omaha!

Will check email, thanks!

BTW, the NCAA.com streaming site requires logging in with your TV provider (cable or satellite), so not sure “over the air” and “over the top” (sling, Amazon fire and the like) viewers can use it.

NOTICE — TV listing still show the 12:50 start time on TBS for KU v Penn.

You have been advised!

Next KU Game

CLEMSON v KU at the CenturyLink Center in Omaha
Friday March 23 6:07 PM CDT on CBS

See the official schedule on NCAA.com for the rest of the Sweet 16 games.