NCAA Tournament Printable Bracket 2011 is now Available

The 2011 NCAA Tournament Bracket 2011 is now released and it is available for download at ESPN. The NCAA Tournament Bracket 2011 comprises all the matchups that will be held in the tournament all through out the playoffs.

The NCAA Tournament 2011 Bracket is composed of 68 teams divided into four conferences – East, West, Southwest, and Southeast.

The expanded printable NCAA Tournament 2011 bracket is composed of 68 basketball teams and includes some intriguing matchups and some possible stinkers.

The Big East conference sent 11 teams to the tournament, the most of any conference. Next to them was the Big Ten having sent seven teams.

The tournament will be televised on the following live stream channels such as CBS, TBS, TNT, truTV in the United States as of 2011 and onward, with CBS televising the Elite Eight and Final Four until 2016 exclusively.

The first round starts on Thursday and runs through March 17-18 and the second round runs through March 19-20.

The Sweet 16 games will be played on March 24 and 25, while the Elite Eight games will kickoff on March 26 and conclude on March 27. 

The Final Four games will be played on April 2 and the national championship game will cut down the nets on April 4, 2011.

The Championship or Finals Round which will be held at Houston on April 4, 2011 where a National Champion will be declared. The official NCAA Tournament bracket is now out for download. You can get it from ESPN.com and also from SBNation.

Big East Tournament Bracket: ACC Tournament Schedule 2011 and Live Coverage by ESPN

Big East Tournament Bracket: ACC Tournament Schedule 2011 and Live Coverage by ESPN - This week, the ACC Tournament 2011 starts and its bracket is now released in public. The 2011 Atlantic Coast Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament is also known as ACC Tournament 2011,  is a part of the 2010-11 NCAA Division I men’s basketball season, which will take place from March 10–March 13, 2011, at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina. 

The tournament will be broadcast by ESPN's networks except in the blackout region or what they call, the ACC markets, where it will be shown on Raycom. The ACC Tournament 2011 will lasts for three days.

North Carolina, Duke, Florida State and Clemson have the four first round byes, and won’t play again until Friday. The eight schools behind them will have to go through another extra day.

Meanwhile, the Hokies need to beat both Georgia Tech and Florida State to have a chance to make it to the NCAA Tournament and probably the need to advance to Sunday’s final match.

The first round games will be played by Virginia, Miami, Wake Forest, Boston College, Georgia Tech and a lot more.

First Round Games/TV/Times

No.8 Virginia vs No.9 Miami 12 p.m ACC Network
No.5 Boston College vs. No.12 Wake Forest 2 p.m. ACC Network
No.7 Maryland vs. No.10 NC State 7 p.m. ESPN2
No.6 Virginia Tech vs. No.11 Georgia Tech 9 p.m. ACC Network

The quarterfinals will take place on the following day where the top-four seeds await the winners of the opening first round match ups.

Quarter Finals : March 11, 2011

No.1 North Carolina vs. No.8/No.9 Winner 12 p.m ACC Network/ESPN2
No.4 Clemson vs. No.5/No.12 Winner 2 p.m. ACC Network/ESPN2
No.2 Duke vs. No.7/No.10 Winner 7 p.m. ACC Network/ESPN2
No.3 Florida State vs. No.6/No.11 Winner 9 p.m. ACC Network/ESPN2

The semifinals for the ACC Tournament 2011 will occur on Saturday March 12, with the Championship game taking place on Sunday, March 13.