CBS Sports and Turner Sports locked in their lineup for the upcoming NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, with live, full national coverage of all 67 tournament games across four networks – TBS, CBS, TNT and truTV – as well as NCAA March Madness Live, beginning Tuesday, March 17, with the NCAA First Four on truTV presented by Northwestern Mutual. This year’s Final Four will be shown Saturday, April 4, on TBS with team-specific “TeamCast” coverage available via TNT and truTV and Championship game set for April 6 on CBS. Bill Raftery and Grant Hill will offer game analysis with play-by-play commentator Jim Nantz and reporter Tracy Wolfson calling the NCAA Final Four National Semifinals and National Championship. Meanwhile, Chris Webber, Steve Lappas and Steve Smith will also serve as game analysts at the tournament for the first time this year. Mateen Cleaves will be a studio analyst, joined by host Matt Winer and analyst Seth Davis from Turner Studios in Atlanta. In New York, Ernie Johnson hosts studio coverage from the Final Four and National Championship with analysts Charles Barkley, Clark Kellogg and Kenny Smith. They will be joined by Greg Gumbel with analysts Reggie Miller, Seth Davis, Steve Smith and college coaches.
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