NCAAs: Iowa, UNI to Seattle, ISU to Louisville

First, here are the days and game times: (All Central times)

Iowa State vs. UAB in Louisville, Thursday at 11:40 a.m. on truTV.

Northern Iowa vs. Wyoming in Seattle, Friday at 12:40 p.m. on TBS.

Iowa vs. Davidson in Seattle, Friday at 6:20 p.m. on TNT.

Iowa State and Iowa are four victories from meeting each other in the NCAA men's basketball tournament's Sweet 16.

Iowa and Northern Iowa will be together this week in Seattle.

Iowa State could face former Iowa coach Steve Alford's UCLA team Saturday.

Oh, the possibilities.

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Iowa is a No. 7 seed in the South Region and will play No. 10 Davidson in Seattle's KeyArena Friday. (All times will be determined later Sunday night.) Davidson (24-7) was the regular-season champion of the Atlantic 10 Conference. It lost 93-73 to Virginia Commonwealth Saturday in the conference's tournament semifinals.

Should the Hawkeyes win Friday, they'll meet the winner of No. 2 Gonzaga vs. No. 15 North Dakota State on Sunday.

Iowa State is the South's No. 3 seed. The Cyclones will face No. 14 UAB (19-15), the winner of Conference USA's league tournament, in Louisville, Ky., on Thursday at the KFC Yum! Center.

If ISU wins, it will get the winner of Thursday's SMU-UCLA game on Saturday.

Should Iowa and Iowa State both win twice, they would play in a South semifinal on March 27 in Houston.

Northern Iowa is a No. 5 seed, its highest seed ever. It will open play in the East Region against No. 12 Wyoming (25-9) Friday in Seattle. Wyoming got into the NCAAs by virtue of winning the Mountain West Conference tournament.

The game on the other side of the Panthers' pod is No. 4 Louisville vs. No. 13 UC Irvine.