No more preliminaries; play-in games are over. Now, the 2016 NCAA basketball tournament explodes into existence. First-round games begin Thursday and continue into Friday.
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Here is the schedule of first-round games on Thursday. All times ET.
12:15 p.m.: UNC-Wilmington vs.Duke
12:40 p.