NCAA Bracket 2015: March Madness Tournament Schedule and Coverage

Selection Sunday looms over the developing conference tournaments like expectations do over the undefeated Kentucky Wildcats. 

One mistake and it all goes away.

That's the beauty of the best sporting event the globe has to offer—that being March Madness, the bracket that birthed bracketology, the Big Dance.

Kentucky may be on a historic tear, but one slip and it's over. Those rules apply to every team that makes the bracket, but even more so to the teams that are playing for their postseason lives right now.

Below is a look at what the most notable teams are scratching and clawing for before Sunday.

NCAA Tournament Schedule and Coverage

		TV Info
Selection Sunday	March 15	CBS
First Round	March 17-18	CBS, TBS, TNT, truTV
Second Round (Round of 64)	March 19-20	CBS, TBS, TNT, truTV
Third Round (Round of 32)	March 21-22	CBS, TBS, TNT, truTV
Sweet 16	March 26-27	CBS, TBS
Elite Eight	March 28-29	CBS, TBS
Final Four	April 4	TBS, TNT, truTV
National Championship Game	April 6	CBS

Note: For game locations for each date on the schedule, head to ESPN.com. Viewing info courtesy of NCAA.com.

Bubble-Team Predictions

Indiana (19-12)

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Few teams this time of year are ever lucky enough to come back from a complete, unavoidable self-destruct mode.

Tom Crean's Indiana Hoosiers can do just that, though.

It's hard to believe given Indiana's current form. Crean's team hasn't won more than one game in a row since mid-January, enters the Big Ten tournament on a three-game skid and sits outside of the ESPN RPI Top 50, per ESPN's RPI profile.

Hope is not lost, though. Junior Yogi Ferrell still leads the team with 16.0 points per game, helping the Hoosiers to rank 19th in scoring at 78.0 points per game.

The problems for Crean's team come on the defensive end of the court. Over the course of that three-game losing streak, Northwestern (51 percent), Iowa (46.3) and Michigan State (43.8) all had no problems shooting from the floor and won the battle on the glass.

First up for the Hoosiers in Chicago is that same Northwestern team. A loss there and the hopes for the Big Dance figure to be over. The good news—Indiana has a recent loss to learn from and should handle business against a team that ranks more than 50 spots below it on the RPI list.

Prediction: Indiana makes the tournament.

UCLA (19-12)

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So far so good for the UCLA Bruins.

While they haven't made their debut in the Pac-12 tournament just yet, the Bruins are in a great position after 12-19 USC managed to knock off Arizona State in the opening round.

In other words, if the Bruins get past the team with the worst RPI in the tournament, they will next encounter Pac-12 leader and No. 5 Arizona. CBS Sports' Jon Rothstein puts it best:

Oh, and the tail end of UCLA's current three-game streak? An 85-74 win against those same Trojans, as Bryce Alford poured in a game-high 23 points and the Bruins came close to 50 percent shooting from the field.

Now, the Bruins are far from perfect. Steve Alford's team is a miserable 1-6 against the RPI Top 25 and 2-7 against the RPI Top 50. Should Alford and Co. get another shot at Arizona, though, coming closer than a February 57-47 loss in which they only scored 18 points in the opening half will all but guarantee a tournament spot.

Prediction: UCLA makes the tournament.

Miami (21-11)

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It's now or never for the Miami Hurricanes.

Still carrying the Hurricanes is a mid-January shocking upset of the Duke Blue Devils in 90-74 fashion. Miami shot 51.8 percent from the field at Cameron Indoor Stadium, and Angel Rodriguez scored a game-high 24 points in the upset.

Call it a mixed bag since, though, even if the Hurricanes have found a way to hit on a three-game streak. Jim Larranaga's team can still only clutch that Duke triumph as a bragging point thanks to a 1-6 record against the RPI Top 25 and a stunning four losses to teams ranked lower than 100th.

There seems to be some semblance of hope, though. The Hurricanes just took down Virginia Tech in 59-49 fashion with Rodriguez only playing 10 minutes in large part thanks to 16 points from Sheldon McClellan.

"He played 40 minutes of just terrific basketball," Larranaga said, per The Associated Press (via ESPN.com). "I went to take him out once, and I turned to my staff, and they said, 'No, he never really gets tired.'"

The showcase of depth is great, but next up is a dance with No. 11 Notre Dame (26-5). The two sides met once this year, and Miami had no answer for the Fighting Irish's wealth of shooters, allowing five players to reach double digits.

A loss against Notre Dame puts Miami's bubble hopes in serious jeopardy.

Prediction: Miami misses the tournament.

Stats and info are courtesy of ESPN unless otherwise specified.