March Madness 2023: 2 Florida Teams To Play In NCAA Men's Tournament

FLORIDA — The NCAA’s March Madness tournament begins Tuesday. Here’s who made it from Florida and where they’re seeded in the men's tourney.

Selections are in for the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, better known as “March Madness,” which begins Tuesday. The first four games will be played in Dayton, Ohio.

Two teams from Florida made the annual tournament this year:

• No. 5 Miami (25-7) takes on No. 12 seed Drake University (27-7) from Des Moines, Iowa, at 7:15 p.m. Friday on TBS in the Midwest regional.
• No. 9 Florida Atlantic (31-3) takes on No. 8 Memphis (26-8) in the East regional at 9:15 p.m. Friday on TNT.

Selections were made Sunday for both the men's and women’s tournaments. Below are the major dates to know for the 2023 March Madness tournament and you can also get a Printable bracket.

• Selection Sunday: March 12
• First Four: March 14-15
• First round: March 16-17
• Second round: March 18-19
• Sweet 16: March 23-24
• Elite Eight: March 25-26
• Final Four: April 1
• NCAA championship game: April 3

Kansas is the defending national champion after the Jayhawks defeated North Carolina to win the national title last year. Alabama enters this year's tournament as the overall No. 1 seed and is joined by fellow top seeds Purdue, Kansas, and Houston heading into this week's opening round of games.

Kansas, which lost in the Big XII championship game to Texas, has less than an 8 percent chance of repeating, according to oddsmakers.

Both the Crimson Tide and Cougars were among the favorites to return to the championship this year. The odds for the top five were as follows, according to DraftKings:

• Houston : +475 (17.4 percent chance)
• Alabama: +650 (13.3 percent chance)
• Purdue: +1000 (9.1 percent chance)
• UCLA: +1200 (7.7 percent chance)
• Kansas: +1200 (7.7 percent chance)
• Texas: +1400 (6.8 percent chance)