How to Watch the 2024 Final Four: Game Times and TV Broadcasts
The 2024 NCAA Tournament has reached it's final destination. The Final Four will take place over the next few days in Phoenix, Arizona to crown men's college basketball's 2024 national champion.
The Final Four field consists of a combination of dominant teams, an electrifying offense, and a team on a miraculous run through the postseason. This should be an incredible Final Four.
2024 Final Four Game Times and TV Broadcasts
The 2024 Final Four gets underway Saturday evening. Here's how you can watch all the action.
11-seed NC State vs 1-seed Purdue
5:09 pm CT on TBS. Also available for streaming through the NCAA March Madness Live app.
Point Spread: Purdue -9.5
It's debatable whether or not you can call a high-major program, especially one that's won a national championship, a Cinderella, but it's hard to call NC State anything else. The Wolfpack (26-14) needed magic to win the ACC Tournament, which is the only reason they even made the Big Dance. That magic has carried them all the way to their first Final Four since they last won the championship in 1983.
Loveable big man DJ Burns has captured the heart of the nation after a dominant 29-point performance over rival Duke in the Elite Eight. Now he'll go face-to-face with National Player of the Year Zach Edey, Purdue's towering (and polarizing) 7'4" center that no one has had an answer for.
He leads an elite Purdue offense and has taken the Boilermakers (33-4) to their first Final Four since 1980 one year after they lost to a 16-seed on the first day of the tournament. Will Purdue complete the same turnaround that Virginia did in 2019, or will NC State's run continue?
4-seed Alabama vs 1-seed UConn
7:49 pm CT on TBS. Also available for streaming through the NCAA March Madness Live app.
Point Spread: UConn -11.5
The defending national champs are back in the Final Four looking to defend their crown, and the way they're playing, it's hard to bet against them to do so. The Huskies (35-3) continue to be dominant. Since the Big East Championship Game, they've won by an averge of over 27 points per game.
In the Elite Eight, they went on a 30-0 run over a previously electrifying Illinois squad for a blowout victory. They're elite on both ends of the floor, and they'll need that to continue in the Final Four against the high-flying Crimson Tide.
Alabama (25-11) is incredible offensively. The Tide shoot, and make, threes at an unbelievable clip on to way to over 90 points per game. Mark Sears leads them, averaging 21.5. Bama's problem has been their defense. They'll give up plenty on the other end, which could spell trouble against UConn. But when they're making their shots, it almost doesn't matter.
Still, the Huskies have a dominant defense, and that should be the difference. But if Bama starts making threes, look out.