{"id":688838,"date":"2026-03-30T22:23:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T22:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/688838\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:23:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T22:23:47","slug":"elite-8-teams-ranked-by-national-championship-chances-in-2026-mens-march-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/688838\/","title":{"rendered":"Elite 8 teams ranked by national championship chances in 2026 men\u2019s March Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The eight teams left in the 2026 NCAA tournament will battle for a trip to the Final Four on Saturday and Sunday. The complete TV schedule is below:<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, March 28<\/p>\n<p>No. 3 Illinois vs. No. 9 Iowa | 6:09 p.m. ET | TBS<\/p>\n<p>No. 1 Arizona vs. No. 2 Purdue | 8:49 p.m. ET | TBS<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, March 29<\/p>\n<p>No. 1 Michigan vs. No. 6 Tennessee | 2:15 p.m. ET | CBS<\/p>\n<p>No. 1 Duke vs. No. 2 UConn | 5:05 p.m. ET | CBS<\/p>\n<p>If you missed any of the Sweet 16 games, our college basketball writer Mike Rutherford has you covered with the best and worst from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/college-basketball\/1108363\/march-madness-2026-the-best-and-worst-from-thursdays-sweet-16\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Thursday<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/college-basketball\/1108539\/march-madness-2026-the-best-and-worst-from-sweet-16-friday\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Friday&#8217;s<\/a> action. Plus check out our Elite Eight teams <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/college-basketball\/1108490\/elite-8-mens-march-madness-ranking-illinois-arizona-championship\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">ranked by their chances<\/a> to win a national championship.<\/p>\n<p>Do any teams look like an automatic lock to make it to the Final Four? Which teams should be the most concerned? Let us know in the comments below and follow along with us as we will be talking all things March Madness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The eight teams left in the 2026 NCAA tournament will battle for a trip to the Final Four&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,217,354,231,772,1544],"class_list":{"0":"post-688838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-mens-college-basketball","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-basketball","13":"tag-ncaab"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116320473135203783","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}