NCAA Tournament schedule, listings and live thread: Thursday edition

It's time for what might be the most fun two days in sports. The NCAA Tournament starts in earnest today at 11 a.m. Let's thread it up! I've bolded what I consider the most interesting game of each shift. We're going to start the day with either a series of boring, 15-point wins or an epic upset. But the second- and third-shift games are pretty fantastic.

Shift No. 1
MIDWEST: No. 3 Notre Dame vs. No. 14 Northeastern (CBS, 11:15 a.m. CT)
SOUTH: No. 3 Iowa State vs. No. 14 UAB (truTV, 11:40 a.m. CT)
WEST: No. 3 Baylor vs. No. 14 Georgia State (TBS, 12:40 p.m. CT)
WEST: No. 2 Arizona vs. No. 15 Texas Southern (TNT, 1:10 p.m. CT)

Shift No. 2
MIDWEST: No. 6 Butler vs. No. 11 Texas (CBS, 1:45 p.m. CT)
SOUTH: No. 6 SMU vs. No. 11 UCLA (truTV, 2:10 p.m. CT)
WEST: No. 6 Xavier vs. No. 11 Ole Miss (TBS, 3:10 p.m. CT)
WEST: No. 7 VCU vs. No. 10 Ohio State (TNT, 3:40 p.m. CT)

Shift No. 3
EAST: No. 1 Villanova vs. No. 16 Lafayette (TBS, 5:50 p.m. CT)
MIDWEST: No. 8 Cincinnati vs. No. 9 Purdue (CBS, 6:10 p.m. CT)
WEST: No. 4 North Carolina vs. No. 13 Harvard (TNT, 6:20 p.m. CT)
SOUTH: No. 5 Utah vs. No. 12 Stephen F. Austin (truTV, 6:27 p.m. CT)

Shift No. 4
EAST: No. 8 NC State vs. No. 9 LSU (TBS, 8:30 p.m. CT)
MIDWEST: No. 1 Kentucky vs. No. 16 Hampton (CBS, 8:40 p.m. CT)
WEST: No. 5 Arkansas vs. No. 12 Wofford (TNT, 8:50 p.m. CT)
SOUTH: No. 4 Georgetown vs. No. 13 Eastern Washington (truTV, 8:57 p.m. CT)