The 2023 NCAA Tournament is officially here, with First Four games beginning in Dayton, Ohio, on Tuesday night!

Mississippi State, an 11-seed and 1 of the last 4 teams into the field of 68, will take on fellow 11-seed Pitt for the right to play 6-seed Iowa State on Thursday.

Elsewhere, 7 other SEC teams made the big dance, and they’ll all have first-round games on either Thursday or Friday in various locations across the country.

Over at DraftKings Sportsbook, the lines are out for each SEC team’s first game of the NCAA Tournament. Here’s a look at who is favored and who isn’t:

Tuesday, March 14

  • Mississippi State (-2.5) vs. Pitt

Thursday, March 16

  • Mizzou (+2) vs. Utah State
  • Arkansas (-1.5) vs. Illinois
  • Auburn (-1) vs. Iowa
  • Tennessee (-11.5) vs. Louisiana
  • Texas A&M (-3) vs. Penn State

Friday, March 17

  • Kentucky (-4) vs. Providence

(NOTE: Alabama awaits the winner of a First Four game between No. 16 seeds Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and Southeast Missouri State, which will take place Thursday in Dayton. You can bet the No. 1 overall seed Crimson Tide will be heavy favorites in that game.)

As you can see above, only Mizzou is an underdog out of the 8 SEC teams that made the tournament. How many SEC teams will advance to the Round of 32? We’ll find out over an exciting next 4 days of college hoops action!

Below, you can find a schedule of when all the First Four and Round 1 SEC games are set to tip off and where you can watch (all times in Eastern time):

Tuesday, March 14

  • No. 11 Mississippi State vs. No. 11 Pitt — 9:10 p.m. on truTV

Thursday, March 16

  • No. 7 Mizzou vs. No. 10 Utah State — 1:40 p.m. on TNT
  • No. 1 Alabama vs. No. 16 TAMU-CC/SEMO — 2:45 p.m. on CBS
  • No. 8 Arkansas vs. No. 9 Illinois — 4:30 p.m. on TBS
  • No. 8 Iowa vs. No. 9 Auburn — 6:50 p.m. on TNT
  • No. 3 Tennessee vs. No. 13 Louisiana — 9:40 p.m. on CBS
  • No. 7 Texas A&M vs. No. 10 Penn State — 9:55 p.m. on TBS

Friday, March 17

  • No. 6 Kentucky vs. No. 11 Providence — 7:10 p.m. on CBS