The NCAA Tournament — or March Madness — is officially underway in the greater Indianapolis region, as is the Women’s NCAA Tournament in the greater San Antonio region. Those are the names the NCAA prefers to use for both events: The “real” tournament and the women’s tournament.
“We strive to strike this delicate balance between being all the same and yet having some independence so that there’s a unique nature of these championships and to the sports,” Dan Gavitt, the NCAA’s senior president of basketball said. “We also have somewhat of a challenge and that we have different, equally valued, greatly valued broadcast partners: ESPN for the women’s championship and CBS and Turner for the men’s championship.