The tournament is scheduled to begin Tuesday with the First Four round.
Selection Sunday began with a pronouncement of the 2024 NCAA Tournament men’s heavyweight, as — aiming to be the first back-to-back national champion since 2007 — is the No. 1 overall seed. The No. 1 seeds — and the rest of the tournament field — will play first-round games Thursday and Friday. Here’s how Connecticut got here. UConn UConn is looking to become the first team since the 2006-07 to win back-to-back national titles.
Advertisement UConn lost again to Seton Hall a few weeks later in its Big East opener, but quickly shook it off, stringing together 14 consecutive wins and cruising through the Big East tournament to win its first conference title since 2011. “We feel it’s harder to win the Big East than the national championship,” guard said afterward.