Houston is the desired destination of all 68 teams selected in this year’s men’s NCAA basketball tournament. But before reaching the Final Four and having an opportunity to win a national title, teams must first navigate their regional schedules set up by the selection committee.

It won’t be an easy path for any of the teams as March Madness brings the potential for upsets along the way. Brackets surely will get busted by those unanticipated surprises and some teams will become Cinderella stories.

A look at the complete tournament schedule from the First Four to the final game so you can follow along the journey.

All Times EDT.

Final Four

At NRG Stadium, Houston

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National semifinals

Saturday, April 1

San Diego State 72, Florida Atlantic 71

Connecticut 72, San Diego State 59

National championship

Monday, April 3

San Diego State (31-6) vs. Connecticut (30-8), 9 p.m.

East Region

First round

Thursday, March 16

At Amway Center, Orlando, Fla.

Duke 74, Oral Roberts 51

Tennessee 58, Louisiana-Lafayette 55

Friday, March 17

At Nationwide Arena, Columbus, Ohio

Michigan State 72, Southern California 62  

Marquette 78, Vermont 61

Fairleigh Dickinson 63, Purdue 58

Florida Atlantic 66, Memphis 65 

At Greensboro, Coliseum, Greensboro, N.C.

Kentucky 61, Providence 53

Kansas State 77, Montana State 65

Second round

Saturday, March 18

At Amway Center, Orlando, Fla.

Tennessee 65, Duke 52

Sunday, March 19

At Nationwide Arena, Columbus, Ohio

Michigan State 69, Marquette 60

Florida Atlantic 78, Fairleigh Dickinson 70

At Greensboro, Coliseum, Greensboro, N.C.

Kansas State 75, Kentucky 69

Regional semifinals 

Thursday, March 23

At Madison Square Garden, New York

Kansas State 98, Michigan State 93 (OT)

Florida Atlantic 62, Tennessee 55

Regional final 

Saturday, March 25

At Madison Square Garden, New York

Florida Atlantic 79, Kansas State 76 

South Region

First round

Thursday, March 16

At Legacy Arena at BJCC, Birmingham, Ala.

Maryland 67, West Virginia 65

Alabama 96, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 75

At Amway Center, Orlando, Fla.

Furman 68, Virginia 67

San Diego State 63, College of Charleston 57

At Golden 1 Center Sacramento, Calif.

Missouri 76, Utah State 65

Princeton 59, Arizona 55

Friday, March 17

At Ball Arena, Denver

Baylor 74, UC Santa Barbara 56

Creighton 72, North Carolina State 63

Saturday, March 18

At Legacy Arena at BJCC, Birmingham, Ala.

Alabama 73, Maryland 51

At Amway Center, Orlando, Fla.

San Diego State 75, Furman 62

At Golden 1 Center Sacramento, Calif.

Princeton 78, Missouri 63

Sunday, March 19

At Ball Arena, Denver

Creighton 85, Baylor 76

Regional semifinals

At KFC Yum! Center, Louisville, Ky.

Friday, March 24

San Diego State 71, Alabama 64

Creighton 86, Princeton 75

Regional final

At KFC Yum! Center, Louisville, Ky.

Sunday, March 26

San Diego State 57, Creighton 56

Midwest Region

First round

Thursday, March 16

At Legacy Arena at BJCC, Birmingham, Ala.

Auburn 83, Iowa 75

Houston 63, Northern Kentucky 52

At Wels Fargo Arena, Des Moines, Iowa

Texas 81, Colgate 61

Penn State 76, Texas A&M 59

Friday, March 17

At Greensboro Coliseum, Greensboro, N.C.

Xavier 72, Kennesaw State 67

Pittsburgh 59, Iowa State 41

At MVP Arena Albany, N.Y.

Miami (Fla.) 63, Drake 56

Indiana 71, Kent State 60

Second round

Saturday, March 18

At Legacy Arena at BJCC, Birmingham, Ala.

Houston 81, Auburn 64

At Wells Fargo Arena, Des Moines, Iowa

Texas 72, Penn State 67

Sunday, March 19

At Greensboro Coliseum, Greensboro, N.C.

Xavier 84, Pittsburgh 69 

At MVP Arena Albany, N.Y.

Miami (Fla.) 85, Indiana 69

Regional semifinals

At T-Mobile Center, Kansas City, Mo. 

Friday, March 24

Miami (Fla.) 89, Houston 75

Texas 83, Xavier 71

Regional final

At T-Mobile Center, Kansas City, Mo.

Sunday, March 26

Miami (Fla.) 88, Texas 81

West Region

First round

Thursday, March 16

At Wells Fargo Arena, Des Moines, Iowa

Kansas 96, Howard 68 

Arkansas 73, Illinois 63

At Golden 1 Center Sacramento, Calif.

Northwestern 75, Boise State 67

UCLA 86, UNC-Asheville 53

Friday, March 17

At Ball Arena, Denver

Gonzaga 82, Grand Canyon 70

TCU 72, Arizona State 70

At MVP Arena Albany, N.Y.

Saint Mary’s 63, Virginia Commonwealth 51

Connecticut 87, Iona 63 

Second round

Saturday, March 18

At Wells Fargo Arena, Des Moines, Iowa

Arkansas 72, Kansas 71

At Golden 1 Center Sacramento, Calif.

UCLA 68, Northwestern 63

Sunday, March 19

At Ball Arena, Denver

Gonzaga 84, TCU 81

At MVP Arena Albany, N.Y.

Connecticut 70, Saint Mary’s 55

Regional semifinals

At T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas

Thursday, March 23

Connecticut 88, Arkansas 65

Gonzaga 79, UCLA 76

Regional final

At T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas

Saturday, March 25

Connecticut 82, Gonzaga 54

First Four

At UD Arena, Dayton, Ohio

Tuesday, March 14

Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 75, Southeast Missouri State 71

Pittsburgh 60, Mississippi State 59

Wednesday, March 15

Fairleigh Dickinson 84, Texas Southern 61

Arizona State 98, Nevada 73

HOUSTON — The World Series championship trophy and ring ceremonies are over in Houston. 

The pageantry, parades and sellout crowds in downtown Cincinnati have been replaced by the gloomy forecast of a 100-loss season. 

The Budweiser Clydesdales have gone back to their stables in St. Louis with hopes of prancing back onto the field at Busch Stadium in October. 

The glorious season-openers  have come to an end, leaving New York Mets fans to anxiously worry about Cy Young winner Justin Verlander’s health, Texas Rangers fans to hope that Jacob deGrom’s opening-day dud isn’t a sign of things to come and San Diego Padres fans to pray they aren’t a reincarnation of the Worst Team Money Can Buy after an 0-2 start.

As LSU cruised to a 102-85 win over Iowa in the women’s NCAA Tournament championship game on Sunday, the Tigers’ Angel Reese mocked March Madness sensation Caitlin Clark.

Reese hit Clark with the ‘you can’t see me’ taunt made famous by John Cena, and then pointed to her ring finger.

It was Clark who busted out the ‘you can’t see me’ taunt during Iowa’s win over Louisville in the Elite Eight last week, which drew the praise of the pro wrestler-turned-actor Cena. Clark waved her hand in front of her face as she had a historic 40-point triple-double.

Clark certainly did her part to help the Hawkeyes on Sunday, scoring a game-high 30 points. Reese, meanwhile, had 15 points plus 10 rebounds for LSU, but earned another honor over Clark when she was named the most outstanding player of the women’s NCAA Tournament. 

‘I don’t care about anybody else and what they have to say about me,’ Reese said. ‘That’s the difference between me and a lot of people. I don’t. The biggest goal for me is the national championship. I don’t care to be All-American. I don’t care to be defensive player of the year, player of the year. The biggest goal is to be a national champion, and that’s what I did.’

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Afterward, Clark said that she ‘honestly no idea what happened,’ when asked about Reese’s taunt. 

Clark’s coach, Lisa Bluder, also commented on the moment.

‘I’m sure she was really proud of her accomplishment, and I would be really proud of my accomplishment if I won the national championship,’ Bluder said. ‘We are all different people, with different ways to show emotions. I’ve got to focus on what I can control.’

Clark, the consensus national player of the year, might have invited some payback Sunday. She followed up her ‘you can’t see me’ taunt in the Elite Eight with a savage wave-off of South Carolina freshman guard Raven Johnson during the Final Four showdown on Friday night.

Reese called Clark a ‘hell of a player’ but said she was just waiting for the moment to call out the ‘you can’t see me’ taunt.

‘I don’t take disrespect lightly,’ Reese said during ESPN’s postgame interview.

“They’re still my SEC girls,’ Reese said.

While basking in the glory of LSU’s first national championship in program history, Reese was unapologetic about her gestures toward Clark.

‘All year I was critiqued about who I was,’ Reese said. ‘I don’t fit the narrative. I don’t fit in a box that y’all want me to be in. I’m too hood. I’m too ghetto. Y’all told me that all year. But when other people do it, y’all say nothing. So this was for the girls that look like me, that’s going to speak up on what they believe in.’

If the playing of the 87th Masters Tournament is half as interesting as all the lead-in conjecture this week, it will be one that will be remembered for years to come.

As official practice rounds begin Monday morning, storylines are coming from all directions, starting with what could be a contentious Champions Dinner on Tuesday night as six former champions are now part of the controversial LIV Golf tour and expected to be in attendance.

As for the course itself, for the second year in a row, one of the second nine par 5s has been lengthened. This time, it’s the iconic 13th. It’s a move that has been talked about since Augusta National Golf Club bought land from neighboring Augusta County Club in 2017. This year, it’s a reality.

On the course, it’s one of those years that the top players in the world are peaking at just the right time for the Masters. They are the new Big Three; Defending champion Scott Scheffler, Jon Rahm and Rory McIlroy. This is McIlroy’s ninth try to complete the career Grand Slam. He’s coming off his best finish here, a solo second last year thanks to a final-round 64.

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Some former champions, such as Fred Couples, have expressed their displeasure with the breakaway LIV Golf tour. Since last year’s Champions Dinner, six former champions have joined the league and are expected to be in attendance Tuesday night.

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That includes three-time champion Phil Mickelson, who skipped the dinner and the tournament last year in the wake of comments critical of the PGA Tour and his support of LIV. He joined LIV in June, and was followed by former Masters champions Bubba Watson, Dustin Johnson, Sergio Garcia, Patrick Reed and Charl Schwartzel.

Scheffler, who will host the dinner as the defending champ, joked with Watson that maybe there should be a separate table for the LIV golfers. Nick Faldo, a three-time champ, joked that perhaps it might be wise to use “plastic knives and forks.”

In all, there are 18 LIV golfers in the Masters field, including four-time major champion Brooks Koepka. All of them have been sensitive to criticism that, because they are banned by the PGA Tour and have only played three events this season (including one in Orlando that ended Sunday), they might have lost their edge. They also play 54 holes tournaments, not the normal 72.

The PGA Tour has banned LIV members from playing its events. But the four majors, including the Masters, are allowing those who qualified to play.

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“Most of us will get four cracks at it this year (in the major championships), and hopefully we get maybe a win out of it,” said Cameron Smith, the current British Open champ and LIV’s highest player in the world rankings. “Maybe we just show a really hearty effort. I think for us, internally, there’s a lot of chatter going around about, ‘These guys don’t play real golf anymore.’ And I think it’s (crap) to be honest. And we just want to show people that.’

‘I think there is a big rivalry right now between the Tour and LIV,’ said Joaquin Niemann, another LIV member. ‘I think there is a lot of players that – I don’t know if they don’t like us or they don’t like the decisions that we take – but it’s going to be fun.’

‘I think it’s going to be more fun knowing that they hate us,’ Niemann said. ‘Then go to the majors and beat them.’

Will Augusta National pair them all together? It’s doubtful. The former champions are normally paired with amateurs. Will the fan reaction be muted?

And what if a LIV golfer wins? That could very well happen, especially since Smith is unquestionably one of the game’s top players. He’s shown he can win here, with top-10 finishes in each of the past three years. He tied for second in 2020, becoming the first golfer in tournament history to break 70 in all four rounds, tied for 10th in 2021 and tied for third last year.

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Back to the lengthening of the 13th hole. The tee was moved straight back and up the hill 35yards, making it play at 545 yards. It will be more difficult for players to draw their ball around the dogleg right corner on the par-5. That means fewer player will go for the water-guarded green in two shots, and eagles will be rarer. But there were only three there last year.

Last year, when the other second-nine par-5, the 15th, was lengthened by 20 yards to 550 yards, there was zero eagles recorded.

The change on No. 13 puzzles two-time Masters champion Bubba Watson.

‘It will change the hole,” Watson said. “It’s now driver (off the tee) and maybe a long iron into the green. Will they take out trees on the bend? That’ll determine how much harder it is when it comes to going for it in two. There’s probably going to be a lot more lay-ups. A few years ago, they wanted the roars back on Sunday. Now you’re taking away the roars? That’s kind of weird.’

DALLAS — Jasmine Carson has a message for everyone who thought this entire Final Four was supposed to be about a junior guard from Iowa. 

Transfers matter, too. 

Carson, one of nine newcomers for LSU this season, scored 22 points off the bench — in just 22 minutes — and third-seeded LSU rolled to a 102-85 win defeat of Iowa and Caitlin Clark to claim the 2023 national championship. 

It was an astonishing performance for Carson, on her third school after stops at Georgia Tech and West Virginia. She was averaging 8.4 points per game before Sunday and hadn’t scored in LSU’s three previous tournament victories. But she made 7 of 8 shots from the field and 5 of her 6 attempts from three.

The Tigers, who are in just year two of the Kim Mulkey era, were pretty good, too. LSU won the rebounding battles 36-26, turning 14 offensive boards into 14 second-chance points. They also tied a season high by hitting 11 three-pointers, including eight of their first 11 attempts and shot 54% from the field, leading for more than 34 minutes. 

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With the win, Mulkey becomes the first coach in the women’s game to lead two schools to national championships (she won three at Baylor). One men’s coach, Rick Pitino, did the same at Kentucky and Louisville, though the Louisville title was later vacated. Previously, Mulkey became the first person to win titles as a coach and player. 

Clark started hot for Iowa, going 4-of-4 and scoring 14 points in the first quarter. But she was mostly cold after that, finishing with 30 points on 9-of-22 shooting.

The 2023 consensus player of the year also had eight assists, and turned the ball over six times. She got in foul trouble in the second quarter, too, and got a technical with 1:03 to play in the third after throwing the ball off the court after Iowa was called for a foul.

LSU built as much as a 21-point lead in the third quarter, and Iowa didn’t get closer than seven. Meanwhile, Monika Czinano, Iowa’s inside threat, fouled out with 6:25 to play. 

Reese was also in foul trouble early for LSU, but finished with 15 points and 10 rebounds, her 34th double-double. The All-American recorded double-doubles in all but two games this season. Alexis Morris scored 21, LaDazhia Williams had 20 points and Flau’jae Johnson chipped in 10.