After the successful national championship round for the 2010 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, millions of basketball fans are now turning over to the NBA Playoff Schedule 2010.

The first round of the 2010 NBA Playoffs will start on the weekend of Saturday, April 17 and Sunday, April 18 in an ultimate best of seven series to name the 2010 NBA national champions.

Currently, the NBA Playoff schedule for 2010 is already complete for the first round.

The 2010 NBA Playoff Bracket has been completed and the basketball teams for both Eastern and Western Conference have been known. For the Eastern Conference, the basketball teams chosen in the 2010 NBA Playoff are Cleveland Cavaliers, Chicago Bulls, Boston Celtics, Miami Heat, Atlanta Hawks, Milwaukee Bucks, Orlando Magic, and Charlotte Bobcats.

In addition, for the Western Conference, the basketball teams chosen in the NBA Playoff Bracket 2010 are Los Angeles Lakers, Oklahoma City Thunder, Denver Nuggets, Utah Jazz, Phoenix Suns, Portland Trail Blazers, Dallas Mavericks, and San Antonio Spurs.

If you are interested to know the complete 2010 NBA Playoff Schedule, we have them here below based on the location of the basketball match. Please take note that all times are expressed in Eastern Time.

WESTERN CONFERENCE:

2010 NBA Playoffs Schedule for Oklahoma City Thunder vs. Los Angeles Lakers:

Staples Center, Los Angeles California – April 18, 3PM; April 20, 10:30PM
Ford Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma – April 22, 9:30PM; April 24, 9:30PM

2010 NBA Playoffs Schedule for Dallas Mavericks vs. San Antonio Spurs:

American Airlines Center, Dallas, Texas – April 18 8PM; April 21, 9:30PM
AT & T Center, San Antonio, Texas – April 23, 9:30PM; April 25, 7PM

2010 NBA Playoffs Schedule for Phoenix Suns vs. Portland Trail Blazers:

US Airways Arena, Phoenix, Arizona – April 18, 10:30PM; April 20, 10PM
Rose Garden Arena, Portland, Oregon – April 22, 10PM; April 24, 4:30PM

2010 NBA Playoffs Schedule for Denver Nuggets vs. Utah Jazz:

Pepsi Center, Denver, Colorado – April 17, 10:30PM; April 19, 10:30PM
Energy Solutions Arena, Salt Lake City, Utah – April 23, 10:30PM; April 25, 9:30PM

EASTERN CONFERENCE:

2010 NBA Playoffs Schedule for Cleveland Cavaliers vs. Chicago Bulls:

Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland, Ohio -April 17, 3PM; April 19, 8PM
United Center, Chicao, Illinois – April 22, 7PM; April 25, 3:30PM

2010 NBA Playoffs Schedule for Orlando Magic vs. Charlotte Bobcats:

Amway Arena, Orlando, Florida – April 18, 5:30PM; April 21, 7PM
Time Warner Cable Arena, Charlotte, NC – April 24, 2PM; April 26

2010 NBA Playoffs Schedule for Atlanta Hawks vs. Milwaukee Bucks:

Philips Arena, Atlanta, Georgia – April 17, 5:30PM; April 20; 7PM
Bradley Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin – April 24, 7PM; April 26

2010 NBA Playoffs Schedule for Boston Celtics vs. Miami Heat:

TD Garden, Boston, Massachussets – April 17, 8PM; April 20, 8PM
American Airlines Arena, Boston, Massachusetts – April 23, 7PM; April 25, 1PM

Which basketball teams do you think will advance to the NBA Conference Semifinals Round? Stay tuned to us for more updates. In the meantime, here is the updated 2010 NBA Playoff Bracket:

NCAA Elite Eight 2010 Update: The Elite 8 basketball teams are now finally revealed in the 2010 NCAA Men’s Division Basketball Tournament. We are now two rounds away from the National Championship finals round in which a winner will be declared on April 5, 2010.

As such, basketball fans are excited to know what is the schedule of Elite 8. They are very eager to watch their favorite basketball teams in the Elite Eight as they compete with other basketball teams. Which basketball teams do you think will qualify to the much awaited “Final Four”?

Meanwhile, here are the 2010 NCAA Elite 8 Basketball Tournament schedule. Note that all times are expressed in Eastern Time.

Saturday – March 27, 2010

West Region (Salt Lake City):   Butler University vs. Kansas State at 4:30 pm
East Region (Syracuse): Kentucky vs. Cornell University at 7 pm

Sunday – March 28, 2010

Midwest Region (St. Louis): Michigan State vs. Tennessee at 2:20 pm
South Region (Houston): Duke vs. Baylor at 5:05 pm

Here is the updated 2010 NCAA Elite 8 Basketball Tournament Bracket for your reference:

Millions of NCAA basketball fans are now thrilled as the basketball game nears to its final round. We are just two rounds away from the National Championship finals of the 2010 NCAA Men’s Division Basketball Tournament. As of the latest bracket update, the so-called “Elite 8″ basketball teams are finally revealed.

So who are these lucky 8 basketball teams who surpassed the challenge of beating other basketball teams in the court? Let’s start first with the Midwest Region. Joining the successful “Elite 8″ are basketball teams Michigan State and Tennessee. They will face each other in the regional finals round to be held on Sunday, March 28, 2010 at 2:20 pm Eastern Time.

Moving down to the left side of the bracket, in the West Region, basketball teams Butler University and Kansas State moves on to the “Elite 8″ defeating their previous basketball matches with Syracuse and Xavier University, respectively. They will face each other on Saturday, March 27, 2010 at 4:30pm Eastern Time.

After the left side of the 2010 NCAA bracket, let’s now move on to the right side of it starting with the East Region. Kentucky and West Virginia successfully joined the “Elite 8″ beating Cornell University and Washington on their previous basketball tournament matches. The two basketball teams is scheduled for a face off on Saturday, March 27, 2010 at 7pm Eastern Time.

Last but not the least, in the South region, Duke and Baylor joins the successful “Elite 8″ basketball team having won their previous basketball matches with Purdue University and St. Mary’s College, respectively.

If you are curious how’s the updated 2010 NCAA Basketball Tournament Bracket looks like in the Men’s Division, then you can take a look at the bracket below filled up with the Elite 8 basketball teams.

NCAA Sweet 16 basketball teams is finally revealed. More and more people get excited as the National Championship of the 2010 NCAA Basketball Tournament comes closer and closer. With the recent basketball game matches finished, the Sweet 16 Bracket was finally announced.

Sweet Sixteen is the start of the thrill and action in the 2010 NCAA Basketball Tournament. It’s the start to the journey towards the Final Four where each region gets its basketball team to compete with the National Championship round.

So which basketball teams qualified for the Sweet 16? Let’s find out by visiting the updated Sweet 16 Bracket:

From the Midwest region, Northern Iowa (UNI), Michigan State, Tennessee, and Ohio State joined the Sweet 16 basketball teams bracket for the 2010 NCAA Basketbal Tournament.

Moving to the West region, Syracuse, Butler University, Xavier and Kansas State joined the list of Sweet 16 Bracket. Looking on the other side of the Sweet 16 Bracket, in the East region, Kentucky, Cornell, Washington, and West Virginia all joined the list of Sweet Sixteen basketball teams.

Lastly, on the South region, Duke, Purdue, Baylor, and St. Mary’s College are the qualified teams on the Sweet 16 Regional Semi Finals Round.

All basketball teams in the 2010 Sweet 16 bracket will now compete and will advance to the Elite 8  in which half of them will get sliced. After that, all 8 teams in the Elite 8 will compete for the Final Four where a National Championship winner will come out.

Having updated the 2010 Sweet 16 Bracket, you can now take a look at the complete NCAA Men’s Division Basketball Tournament Bracket taken from the official NCAA website with all Sweet 16 basketball teams already in placed:

We’ve heard a lot of autistic people. They have their own world. They rarely socialize with people and they do things on their own.

However, of all autistic children, there is one child who got the media attention in the world of NCAA Basketball Tournament.

Accordingly, Alex Hermann, an autistic kid had so far a perfect bracket on the 2010 NCAA Basketball Tournament. No one knows how this 17-year old autistic kid from Chicago did it but his parents claim that he is gifted with skills in statictics.

So far, Alex’s bracket is perfect with nearly 48 winning basketball teams guessed correctly. So what are the picks of this autistic kid in the NCAA Basketball Tournament?

This autistic kid predicted that Northern Iowa would beat the Kansas Jayhawks. He also picked Ohio to knock off Georgetown. And Cornell to knock off Wisconsin. In fact, he picked every winning basketball team through the first two rounds of the basketball tournament correctly.

According to some analysts and statisticians, the odds of doing it is 1 in 13 million. In an effort to join the craze of guessing the perfect bracket in which some sports betting sites offer huge prizes, Alex entered his bracket on CBSsports.com’s NCAA basketball tournament bracket challenge.

His 24-year-old brother named Andrew helped him enter his picks into CBS’ bracket manager. Let’s see if Alex would really get a perfect bracket until the final match in which he picked basketball team ‘Purdue’ as the National Championship winner of the 2010 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament.

Meanwhile, if you are curious on how do Alex’s 2010 NCAA basketball tournament perfect bracket looks like, you can view the bracket below:

We’ve been hearing a lot of news about the 2010 NCAA Basketball Tournament and not so much on the 2010 NIT Basketball Tournament.

National Invitational Tournament is a basketball tournament for those teams who did not qualify for the NCAA Basketball Tournament. As of the latest update on the 2010 NIT Bracket, all eight basketball teams who qualified for the Quarterfinals Round have been announced.

Texas Tech, Mississippi, North Carolina, UAB, Illinois, Dayton, Virginia Tech, and Rhode Island all qualified in the Quarterfinals Round. Texas Tech is scheduled to face Mississippi on Tuesday, March 23, 2010 at 7pm Eastern Time. Later that day, the basketball game match between North Carolina and UAB follows at 9pm Eastern Time.

Furthermore, Illinois is scheduled to face Daytona on March 23 at 9pm after the fight between Virginia Tech and Rhode Island which will be held earlier at 7pm Eastern Time.

For a more detailed view on which teams qualified for the first round, the second round and the latest results of the 2010 NIT Basketball Tournament, here is the latest NIT Bracket 2010 update from the official NIT website:

The basketball games continue in the 2010 NCAA Basketball Tournament. Dubbed as “March Madness”, it is considered as the hottest basketball games among colleges and universities which happens in the month of March.

Earlier, we saw several 2010 NCAA Brackets being updated as the game progresses. A lot of people have updated their 2010 March Madness Brackets to tally with the results of the various basketball game matches that were already finished in the first round.

How is your own 2010 NCAA Basketball Tournament Brackets look like now? Did you get some of the actual results of the game? Did your lose some of your March Madness picks?

If you are the one of those persons who did not get the correct combinations of winning basketball teams, I am sure that you are shaking your head right now. Several of the NCAA Basketball Tournament outcomes have been expected to happen already but some were surprising. So what have you gotten correctly in your 2010 March Madness Brackets?

Look at it now by comparing your brackets to the latest 2010 March Madness Bracket Update with the latest scores, results and schedule of the next basketball games here.

Alternatively, there is also a PDF format of the 2010 March Madness Bracket Update here.

Supporters and fans of Northern Iowa basketball team are now surely rejoicing for their team’s winning over Kansas in one of the recently concluded NCAA Basketball Tournament game match in a close match ending the game with a final score of 69-67.

This basketball match between Northern Iowa and Kansas is another exciting game full of thrills and excitement. Ali Farokhmanesh from Northern Iowa shone during the last minutes of the game as he is instrumental in breaking the almost tie score against Kansas.

With Kansas loss over Northern Iowa, it became the first basketball team in seed number 1 to lose in the regional semi finals round. Northern Iowa will face the winning team between Michigan State and Maryland in their next basketball game match.

Meanwhile, for the latest and updated 2010 March Madness Bracket, you can visit it here.

Are you done filling up those NCAA Bracket? Well, if you haven’t done it yet, you are losing your chance to win various prizes at stake offered by some sports sites.

President Obama is one of the college basketball fans who participated in this NCAA basketball craze by filling up his own 2010 NCAA Men’s Basketball Bracket.

So which basketball teams does Obama Bracket contain? Well, Obama’s March Madness predictions in the “Final Four” of the 2010 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament are the basketball teams Kansas, Kentucky, Villanova, and Kansas St.

His National Championship Winner is no other than Kansas. Do you think he gives justice to the other basketball teams he eliminated in his NCAA Bracket 2010? If you can remember, last year’s Obama Bracket has North Carolina as the National Championsip winner and he was able to guess it right? Will he be able to do the same this year?

How about your 2010 NCAA Men’s Basketball Bracket? Does it have some resemblance to Obama’s Bracket? To find out if there’s really a resemblance, try to download Obama’s official NCAA Men’s Basketball Bracket below:

Have you updated your NCAA Brackets for the Basketball Tournament? The first round of the Men’s Division has already began and some of the winning basketball teams were already announced. Did you guessed the right combination of winning basketball teams?

Here is the updated NCAA Bracket Tournament in the Men’s Division. You can see that half of the bracket was already filled up and that the scores of the various matches were filled in. Continue to watch NCAA Basketball Tournament and see if you’ve made the right predictions of winning basketball teams.