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2019 NCAA Championship Bracket

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Four American Athletic Conference men’s basketball programs– UCF, Cincinnati, Houston and Temple– were selected for the 2019 NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship as announced by the NCAA Men’s Basketball Committee on Sunday. The four teams in the bracket tie a conference high set in 2014 and match in 2016.

Houston (31-3), The American’s regular season champion, received a No. 3 seed in the Midwest Region and faces No. 14 Georgia State (23-9) on Friday, March 22, in Tulsa, Okla. It is the second-straight season that an American team will face Georgia State as Cincinnati took on the Panthers in a 2-15 matchup in 2018.