The calendar turns to March later this week and that’s when every college basketball game starts to matter.
Until then, though, here’s a look at some of the bigger matchups on the schedule this week.
Games are on the men’s side unless otherwise noted.
Feb. 26
WOMEN
UCLA at Colorado, 9 p.m.
MEN
Drexel at Delaware, 6:30 p.m.
Delaware State at North Carolina Central, 7:30 p.m.
McNeese State at Lamar, 8 p.m.
Texas Southern at. Arkansas Pine Bluff, 8:30 p.m.
Baylor at TCU, 9 p.m.
Feb. 27
Cincinnati at Houston, 7 p.m.
Kentucky at Mississippi State, 7 p.m.
Pittsburgh at Clemson, 7 p.m.
Loyola Chicago at St. Bonaventure, 7 p.m.
Akron at Ohio, 7 p.m.
BYU at Kansas, 8 p.m.
Texas at Texas Tech, 9 p.m.
Nevada at Colorado State, 10:30 p.m.
Feb. 28
WOMEN
Texas at Oklahoma, 7 p.m.
Iowa at Minnesota, 9 p.m.
MEN
Auburn at Tennessee, 7 p.m.
Providence at Marquette, 7 p.m.
Northwestern at Maryland, 7 p.m.
Oklahoma at Iowa State, 8 p.m.
Eastern Kentucky at Austin Peay, 8 p.m.
South Carolina at Texas A & M, 8:30 p.m.
St. John’s at Butler, 8:30 p.m.
Seton Hall at Creighton, 9 p.m.
Alabama at Ole Miss, 9 p.m.
Arizona at Arizona State, 10 p.m.
Feb. 29
WOMEN
Virginia Tech at Notre Dame, 7 p.m.
Syracuse at NC State, 7 p.m.
Stanford at Oregon State, 10 p.m.
MEN
Gonzaga at San Francisco, 11 p.m.
March 1
Dayton at Loyola Chicago, 9 p.m.
March 2
Florida at South Carolina, noon
Villanova at Providence, noon
Kansas at Baylor, 1 p.m.
Illinois at Wisconsin, 1 p.m.
Oregon at Arizona, 2 p.m.
Gardner-Webb at Winthrop, 2 p.m.
Marquette at Creighton, 2:30 p.m.
Mississippi State at Auburn, 4 p.m.
South Florida at Charlotte, 4 p.m.
Virginia at Duke, 6 p.m.
Cornell at Princeton, 7 p.m.
Houston at Oklahoma, 8 p.m.
Michigan State at Purdue, 8 p.m.
Tennessee at Alabama, 8 p.m.
New Mexico at Boise State, 8 p.m.
Gonzaga at St. Mary’s, 10 p.m.
March 3
WOMEN
Tennessee at South Carolina, noon
Ohio State at Iowa, 1 p.m.
Louisville at Notre Dame, 2 p.m.
MEN
Seton Hall at UCONN, noon
