The NCAA men’s basketball tournament begins today – with games at PPG Paints Arena. Akron and Creighton play at 1:30pm. Oregon faces South Carolina at 4pm.
Tonight – Kentucky, led by Moon native John Calipari, takes on Oakland at 7:10pm. The final game of the night in Pittsburgh will be North Carolina State and Texas Tech, with a tip-off at 9:40pm.
The Duquesne men make their first appearance in the men’s college basketball tournament in nearly 50 years this afternoon when they meet BYU in an East Region First Round game in Omaha, Nebraska beginning at 12:40pm.
NBA superstar LeBron James sent the Duquesne basketball team a gift of new sneakers for the game. Dukes head coach Keith Dambrot coached James when he attended St. Vincent-St. Mary’s high school in Ohio.