Almost bracket time. Turner Sports and CBS Sports begin the road to the Final Four with the pairings announcement for the 2015 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship with the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship Selection Show on Sunday at 6p on CBS. Greg Gumbel hosts and will be joined by Clark Kellogg, Doug Gottlieb and Seth Davis from the CBS Broadcast Center in New York. The lineup will see Scott Barnes, Chairman of the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Committee, join from Indianapolis while Jim Nantz, Grant Hill and Bill Raftery join via satellite from the United Center.
Meanwhile, ESPN delivers the matchups for the 64-team women’s field on the NCAA Women’s Basketball Selection Special Presented by Capital One on Monday at 7p. ESPN’s Final Four studio team will see host Kevin Negandhi joined by analysts Kara Lawson and Rebecca Lobo, as well as during ESPNU’s NCAA Women’s Basketball Selection Special Extended Coverage Presented by Capital One at 8p. Interviews and segments will include an interview with Dru Hancock, the chair of the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Committee as well as live interviews with South Carolina’s Dawn Staley and Maryland’s Brenda Frese during the ESPN hour. For the first time, FiveThirtyEight will cover the probabilistic projections of the event, offering an interactive bracket that calculates each team’s chances of advancing through the rounds.