Full Coverage: NCAA Basketball Tournament 2023

This year’s fields of 68 men’s and women’s teams are set, with the UCLA and USC men’s teams set to begin their quest to reach the Final Four in Houston and the women’s in Dallas.

The UCLA men’s basketball team, which fell to Arizona in the championship game of the Pac-12 tournament on Saturday night, is the No. 2 seed in the West Region and will play No. 15 UNC Asheville in the first round Thursday at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento. Arizona claimed the No. 2 seed in the Southern Region and will face No. 15 Princeton on Thursday, also in Sacramento.

The UCLA women’s team, the No. 4 seed in the Greenville 1 Regional, earned the right to start at home. They will face No. 13 Sacramento State on Saturday at Pauley Pavilion.

The USC women head to Blacksburg, Virginia, as the No. 8 seed in Seattle Regional 3, where they will take on No. 9 South Dakota State on Friday.

The USC men’s basketball team, which lost to Arizona State in the quarterfinals, heads to the East Region as the No. 10 seed, facing No. 7 Michigan State in the first round on Friday in Columbus, Ohio. .

The tournament begins Tuesday in Dayton, Ohio, with the first four games. The first round begins on Thursday. The group of 68 women’s teams will be announced at 5 pm on ESPN.

See The Times’ full coverage of the NCAA men’s and women’s tournaments.