calendar 2016 NCAA Tournament: Duke wears off, Oregon clean in the West Region

Western Region 2016 NCAA Tournament bracket, crowned by Oregon, will force fans of the 18 teams in the truTV find support in their channel guides.

The star power is not totally absent in the support of the West, which can point to Duke as a No. 4 seed and friends Hield of Oklahoma as a recognized player nationally. And Duke the first round of the NCAA Tournament opens Thursday, do it in a game televised by CBS that ends just after noon EST.

But if no region in support of the 2016 March Madness seems to be stripped of clashes that command tons of eyeballs, which should be the West, which will have six matches played on Friday and four on Friday night. Good games will have to compensate for the shortage of brand names.

These are the peak times and announcer pairings for first four of the Western Region, in the first round and second round games.

TV programming West Region

Closed on 16 March

18:40 This, truTV (Carter Blackburn, Mike Gminski, Jaime Maggio)
# 16 vs. Santa Cruz No. 16 South

Closed on 17 March

24:15 This, CBS (Ian Eagle, Chris Webber, Len Elmore, Evan Washburn)
No. 4 vs. Duke No. 13 UNC Wilmington

14:45 This, CBS (Ian Eagle, Chris Webber, Len Elmore, Evan Washburn)
No.5 vs # 12 Yale Baylor

Closed on 18 March

13:30 This, TNT (Carter Blackburn, Mike Gminski, Jaime Maggio)
No. 7 Oregon State vs. VCU # 10

4:00 pm, TNT (Carter Blackburn, Mike Gminski, Jaime Maggio)
# 2 Oklahoma vs. No. 15 Cal State Bakersfield

19:20 Oriental, APT (Carter Blackburn, Mike Gminski, Jaime Maggio)
No. 3 Texas A & M vs. No. 14 Green Bay

19:27 This, truTV (Spiro Dedes, Doug Gottlieb, Ros-Gold Onwude)
No. 1 vs Santa Cruz Oregon No. 16 or No. 16 South

21:50 Oriental, APT (Carter Blackburn, Mike Gminski, Jaime Maggio)
No. 6 Texas vs. No. 11 Northern Iowa

21:57, truTV (Spiro Dedes, Doug Gottlieb, Ros-Gold Onwude)
No. 8 vs. No. 9 San Jose Cincinnati

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