North Texas might be Dallas Cowboys football country, but every March, a certain kind of madness sets in that puts college basketball front and center.
is likely the one American sporting event that brings together the masses more than any other. There’s a good chance your neighbor, cousin or co-worker has asked you to fill out a bracket and chip in a few bucks for a bit of friendly competition.
Texas, and North Texas in particular, has a large presence in March Madness this year. Not only will a number of Texas teams be participating in both the men’s and women’s tournaments, but some key games will be held in Dallas and some of the top teams in the country will showcase talented players that were raised here in DFW.The men’s tournament runs from March 19 to April 8. The women’s tournament runs from March 20 to April 7.
North Texas schools were shut out of the women’s tournament this year. In the rest of the state, Texas , Baylor , Texas A&M , Rice and Texas A&M Corpus Christi have made the field in 2024.The “Sweet Sixteen” and the “Elite 8” games for the South region of the men’s tournament will be played at the American Airlines Center in Dallas on March 29 and 31. None of the games for the women’s tournament will be played in Texas.for any of the Texas schools on the men’s side of things.
The FanDuel sportsbook has Baylor as an underdog to make the Elite 8 with +320 odds, while giving Houston a much better shot at getting past the Elite 8 with -138 odds. At +980, one stands to make a killing by putting a few bucks down on TCU to make it that far.. She predicts the UT Longhorns will make the Final Four, where, she believes, they will lose to South Carolina, the team she expects to win it all.
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