Various Networks, Check local listings
It’s a full day of basketball, with CBS, TNT, TruTV and TBS all taking part. The earliest game televised is Michigan State (25-8) vs. Valparaiso (26-7) on CBS at 12:15 p.m. ET, followed on TruTV by Butler (26-8) vs. Bucknell (25-8) at 12:40 p.m. ET. Top-seeded Midwest team Louisville plays last-second squeak-in North Carolina AT&T (20-16) at 6:50 p.m. ET on TBS, while top-seeded West team Gonzaga plays Southern (23-9) at 4:10 p.m. ET, also on TBS. In prime time tonight, the CBS games include VCU vs. Akron at 9:45 p.m. ET. Play ball!
Fox, 8:00 p.m. ET
Tonight’s the latest vote-off episode, after last night’s Lennon-McCartney theme-night performances. So now the question is, Who gets voted off? And don’t worry: There will be an answer. Let it be.
IFC, 8:00 p.m. ET
Martin Sheen looks almost impossibly young in this 1979 Francis Ford Coppola epic – but what amazes me the most, watching it now, is that I have to keep reminding myself that none of the explosions, and no shots of the fleet of helicopters, were accomplished with computer trickery. Yes, the opening credits sequence may have been accomplished with a brilliantly realized scale model – but much of what you see is full-scale. And fully amazing.
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
This 1959 movie dramatizes the infamous Leopold and Loeb trial, with Dean Stockwell and Bradford Dillman portraying the young men accused of murder as a “thrill crime” with no motive other than for the sheer thrill of it. Orson Welles shines as their attorney, with one of the best closing arguments ever performed in a film.
Fox, 9:00 p.m. ET
Tonight’s musical assignment for the New Directions kids: guilty pleasures, songs and performers they enjoy even though they’re embarrassed to admit it. And yes, you guessed it: the Spice Girls are amply represented.