NCAA tournament: TV, tipoff time Friday announced for UMBC vs. Virginia

The UMBC men’s basketball team’s opening-round NCAA tournament game against Virginia will tip off at approximately 9:20 p.m. Friday, it was announced Sunday night.

TNT will broadcast the game between the top-seeded Cavaliers and No. 16 seed Retrievers, with Jim Nantz, Grant Hill, Bill Raftery and Tracy Wolfson handling the call from Charlotte, N.C.

The game will begin approximately a half-hour after the end of the 6:50 p.m. game between No. 8 Creighton and No. 9 Kansas State.

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Kristina Miller, assistant athletic trainer at UMBC, hugs guard K.J. Maura during a send- off of the men's basketball team Tuesday, March 13. The team was headed to Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport in advance of its first-round NCAA tournament game against No. 1 seed Virginia on Friday night. (Kim Hairston / Baltimore Sun)