The first full day of the men's NCAA Tournament is Thursday, while the women begin play Friday. Here's which local standouts are on the rosters.

The men’s college basketball season began on Nov. 4 with Kansas atop the preseason AP poll and UConn, Baylor and North Carolina close behind. Five months later, none of those schools are even ranked,

The First Four has been around since 2011 and features the last four automatic qualifiers and last four at-large bids playing to whittle the field from 68 to 64. This year will see two 16-seed vs. 16-seed matchups and two 11-seed vs. 11-seed matchups, but don’t write these games off because they involve double-digit seeds.