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Français (Afrique)What channel is Texas vs. Kentucky on today? Time, TV schedule, live stream to watch women's NCAA Sweet 16 game
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Kentucky looks to defy expectations against Texas as the No. 5 Wildcats take on the No. 1 Longhorns in Sweet Sixteen action.
Texas has won all four games against Kentucky dating back to the 1977-78 season. The Longhorns won the last contest back in February, 64-53.
After beating Missouri State in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, Texas manhandled Oregon in the second. Sporting News 2025-26 Women's Basketball All-American Madison Booker scored 40 points against the latter.
Kentucky went 5-3 in the regular season after the Texas loss. The Wildcats beat James Madison and West Virginia in the tournament to advance, with a double-double by Teonni Key being the key to victory against the latter.
Here's what you need to know about Saturday's matchup between Texas and Kentucky, including broadcast information and start time.
What channel is Texas vs. Kentucky on today?
The Sweet 16 matchup between Texas and Kentucky will air on ABC.
Fans looking to stream Texas vs. Kentucky can watch live on the ESPN app, which will carry every NCAA women’s basketball tournament game in 2026.
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Texas vs. Kentucky start time
- Date: Saturday, March 28
- Time: 3 p.m. ET
The NCAA women’s tournament game between Texas and Kentucky is set to tip off at 3 p.m. ET from Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas. Kentucky reached the Sweet Sixteen for the first time in ten years. The Wildcats last made the Elite Eight in 2013.
Texas appears in its third straight Sweet Sixteen. The Longhorns attempt to win a National Championship for the first time since 1986.
Texas vs. Kentucky radio coverage
- Radio station:SiriusXM
Listen to Texas vs. Kentucky in the 2026 NCAA women's basketball tournament live on the SiriusXM app.
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Women’s March Madness bracket 2026
Check the Sporting News women’s NCAA Tournament live bracket for the latest final scores and next-round matchups.
When is the Women's Final Four in 2026?
- Date: April 3 and 5
- Location: Mortgage Matchup Center, Phoenix
The 2026 Women's Final Four is set for April 3 and 5 at Mortgage Matchup Center in Phoenix. The semifinals will be played Friday night and the national championship game is set for Sunday afternoon.
Women’s March Madness tournament schedule 2026
Here is the round-by-round schedule for the 2026 NCAA women’s basketball tournament:
| Round | Date |
| First Four | March 18-19 |
| First round | March 20-21 |
| Second round | March 22-23 |
| Sweet 16 | March 27-28 |
| Elite Eight | March 29-30 |
| Final Four | April 3 |
| National championship | April 5 |
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Kyle Tucker Delivers a Win on Ceremony Ring Night vs. Diamondbacks
The Los Angeles Dodgers took home a 5-4 win against the Arizona Diamondbacks on the night when they got their 2025 World Series rings.
Alex Freeland had himself a night, going 2-for-3 with a home run and a double. He was the go-ahead run in the bottom of the eighth inning as the $240 million man, Kyle Tucker, hit the RBI single to drive him in.
Tucker only had one hit on the night, with his other three plate appearances being two strikeouts and a walk.
The Dodgers’ offense exploded during the third inning, scoring four runs after starter Emmet Sheehan allowed two during the first three innings.
Mookie Betts hit a three-run home run in the third inning, getting his season going with a strong note and signaling he may get back to his All-Star level.
The D-Backs’ pitching staff did a good job of limiting the damage other than the fourth inning, getting outs despite the Dodgers making some hard contact.
Emmet Sheehan struggled mightily after a first inning that saw him strike out the side. His fastball velocity dipped dramatically over the next three innings, and so did his stuff, along with his pitch mix.
However, the Dodgers’ bullpen looked strong once again, providing lights-out stuff and keeping the team in the game so Tucker could come up clutch.
Edwin Diaz’s moment
Tucker hit allowed for fellow new Dodger Edwin Diaz to get his grand entrance and get the save. The Dodgers went all out for Diaz, who pulled out his signature “Narcos” song with a live trumpet.
He threw 17 pitches, 10 for strikes, and managed to get two strikeouts, allowing just one baserunner via a walk.
The Dodgers were able to end another night on a good note, beating the D-Backs and celebrating their 2025 title again.
On Opening Night, it was the back-to-back titles being presented, but on Friday, the Dodgers celebrated their championship with rings, taking in their glory before turning the page on the season and saying hello to an old friend in Clayton Kershaw.
Mariners try hitting home runs with runners on base, beat Cleveland 5-1
Tonight’s game started off on a sour note, with another first-inning bomb from Guardians rookie Chase DeLauter, already his third on the season. It seemed to foreshadow a replay of last night’s loss. But the next batter flipped the vibes, as Cole Young went full extension to corral a hard-hit grounder from Jose Ramírez and get things back on track for Mariners starter George Kirby.
Kirby settled down from there, kicking off a run of retiring 11 of 12 batters with five strikeouts. In some ways, he looked like vintage Kirby, with pinpoint command and touching 98 at times. In other ways, it was an unusual performance for him. He went to his four-seamer almost 50% of the time, about twice as much as last year. The fact that the Guardians’ major threats batted from the left side help explain why Kirby left his sinker on the shelf, and the DeLauter dinger coming on a terrible slider may explain Kirby’s hesitance to return to that pitch. He’s also deliberately trying to use his curveball against opposite-handed hitters more this year.
“[The curveball] is a great weapon, especially against the lefties to start the count or finish it,” he said after the game. “But we were aggressive with heaters, and using the curve just to kind of change their sights a little bit and then go back to the heat. But yeah, the curveball is one pitch I really want to rely on to lefties. Good strike pitch, good strikeout pitch. And the more I throw it, the better it is.”
The plan faltered in the fifth inning, when Kirby gave up rare back-to-back walks to open the inning and, an out later, hit a batter. But for as much as the tension rose in the moment, Kirby says he didn’t feel it: “For me right now the biggest thing is to find a way to get back in control and stay in control. Those runners out there in that situation were the least of my worries. Just go attack the hitter – I think it was Kwan at the time – these guys are on, flush it, get back in control and attack from there. So I feel like I’ve made a big step in that side of my game.”
The result was inducing an easy fly ball to shallow left. A baffling baserunning decision by Rhys Hoskins turned it into the easiest double play of Randy Arozarena’s career—just the way Randy likes it—and the end of the threat.
Kirby came back out for one more three-up-three-down inning to finish the night with six strikeouts, two walks, and just two hits and one run on 90 pitches. After an uneven 2025, this was a very promising first start to 2026 for him.
He also left with the lead thanks to the bottom half of the Mariners lineup. It was another quiet night for the heart of the order, with a meaningless walk from Julio Rodríguez the only time he reached base, Cal Raleigh wearing a golden sombrero, and Josh Naylor also sporting a goose egg for his batting line. But at least Randy Arozarena recovered from last night’s torpor, catalyzing the guys behind him a couple times.
He worked a four-pitch walk in the fourth inning, inspiring Dominic Canzone to do the same. With those two runners on base, Cole Young fouled off two belt-high fastballs in a row. Finding himself in an 0-2 count to a pitcher who’d been struggling with command all game could have overwhelmed Cole Young. He says he “definitely” could not have stayed on top of a 97-mph heater in an 0-2 count last year. But this isn’t last year. Crediting a new routine and his work with machines that simulate a given pitcher’s spin, he feels he’s better able to execute. And that’s just what he did, taking the third pitch into the seats for his first home run of the season to make the score 3-1.
Two innings later, Randy led off with another walk, once again never even feinting that he might swing. But if he was a statue in the box, he was anything but once he reached first base, dancing around like a silent disco with long, fidgety, start-and-stop leads. It seemed to get Guardians reliever Colin Holderman shook, leading to him leaving a very tempting middle-middle cutter to Luke Raley, who drove it out of the deep part of the park. It’s worth noting that Raley pulled that off after attempting a bunt earlier in the at-bat. The delightfulness of that juxtaposition and his earlier 110-mph fly out earns Luke Raley this season’s first Sun Hat Award, an award I give out in my recaps to a player who makes a noteworthy individual contribution to the game.
Kirby’s having pitched that extra sixth inning after seeming to lose it a bit in the fifth meant that the Mariners could use just three relievers tonight, saving arms for the rest of the series. We were treated to the season’s first appearances by Eduard Bazardo, Matt Brash, and Andrés Muñoz, who each allowed a harmless single as they get themselves dialed in and were otherwise the reliable arms you hope for at the back of a bullpen. The biggest highlight of the back three innings was Julio instituting the No Fly Zone in earnest for the first time this season, with a front slide and slick wrist work to wrangle in a ball in the no man’s land behind the infield.
Julio might still be looking for his first hit, but he can’t have one, he’s making damn sure no one else can have one either.
That play helped lock down the 5-1 win as the Mariners look to get over .500 in Game 3 and stay there for another 159 games after that.
Blue-blood battles galore: After UConn survived MSU's furious rally, a Duke showdown awaits with a Final Four bid on the line
WASHINGTON — Earlier this week, as he spoke to reporters here from Capital One Arena, a day before his team tangled with Duke in the Sweet 16, Rick Pitino caused a bit of a stir.
“The blue bloods no longer control basketball,” he said.
“There’s no such thing as a blue blood anymore,” he added later.
And just in case we didn’t catch it the first two times, Pitino again quipped before leaving the podium, “There are no more blue bloods and I think it’s great.”
Well, about that…
A day after Pitino’s comments, Duke outlasted his St. John’s team and UConn survived against Michigan State to deliver an East region final on Sunday evening pitting two of the sport’s most recent dominant basketball powers in the country.
Are they blue bloods? Perhaps the bluest of the blue bloods over the last three decades.
The Blue Devils, the Huskies and a Final Four trip on the line in the nation’s capital? Yes, that’ll do just fine.
Between them, they’ve got 11 national titles, 25 Final Fours and 87 — yes, 87 — NCAA tournament appearances.
Dead blue bloods? At least not here in the East regional.
In fact, the two programs account for more than one-third of the national titles since 1999 and six of the last 15.
They almost didn’t make it to this point, though. The Blue Devils needed to overcome a 10-point second-half deficit with an injured Caleb Foster rallying the team over the Johnnies. In the nightcap here, the Huskies (32-5) blew an early 19-point, lost the lead, got it back, lost it again and finally finished off the Spartans, 67-63.
At halftime, UConn coach Dan Hurley glared toward his senior leader, Alex Karaban, who up to that point had been skittish to shoot.
“If you’re going to go out in this tournament, you’ve got to go out firing,” he told him.
Karaban finished with 17 points, buried half of his field goals, hit three 3-pointers and snagged 7 rebounds, most of them coming down the stretch of a one or two-score game.
“We let it fly. We’re going to let it fly,” Karaban said afterward.
Clutch free throws for the Huskies kept them on top late. Karaban and Tarris Reed Jr. combined to make their final six free throws. Each trip to the line extended the lead to three or four points.
With 44 ticks left, Karaban found Reed down the lane. He was fouled and made both free throws to make it 63-60. With 22.5 seconds left and leading by one, Karaban sank two free throws. And with UConn up by two, Reed secured the game with a pair of free throws with 4 seconds left.
As he walked up to the line, teammates yelled support toward Reed, “We trust you! We trust!”
The baskets prevented a historic collapse.
Had they won, the Spartans’ 19-point comeback would have been the sixth-biggest in NCAA tournament history. Down 25-6 just 10 minutes into the game, MSU began its rally, outscoring the Huskies 22-10 over the next 15 minutes.
In fact, UConn scored 25 points the first 10 minutes of the game and then scored 25 points over the next 23 minutes.
“It’s about how we are going to respond,” Karaban said about MSU’s comeback. “Making sure we didn’t allow Michigan State to break us.”
What happened early on?
“They punched us in the mouth,” MSU coach Tom Izzo said. “It was an onslaught there.”
During the postgame news conference, Izzo waved away questions about retiring.
What does he plan to be doing in five years?
“Trying to win a national championship. Plain and simple,” he said. “I’m feeling good. We all talk about retirement. Why? What the hell am I going to do?”
He expressed confidence that he’ll return the Spartans to a Final Four one day, that he’ll be able to claim victory in a regional final.
“It’ll happen,” he said, squinting into the crowd of reporters.
But on Sunday here in Washington, D.C., as the city’s annual Cherry Blossom Festival hits full swing, the blue bloods meet in the nation’s capital.