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NCAA Tournament (starting at 9 a.m., CBS). It’s Day 2 of the greatest sporting event of the year. Yesterday saw a surprising number of close games and upsets, which was a nice change of pace from a fairly boring tournament last year. Let’s hope for more of the same today. Cal tips off against Louisville around 6:55 p.m.

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“The Ricky Gervais Show” (9 p.m., HBO). Ehh, it’s dropping off my must-see list. Still a funny show, but it lacks a certain something that makes me need to watch it. Tonight includes Karl’s list of the 50 biggest freaks of all time.

“The Life and Times of Tim” (9 p.m., HBO). Again, funny, but not urgently so. Tonight Tim gets stuck in a car with a self-medicating pharmaceutical salesman, and Amy gets a gun after there’s a break-in.

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“Thin Ice” (8 p.m., ABC). Wow, this is counter-programming at its ugliest: Part 1 of a two-part figure-skating competition pitting a bunch of professional skaters competing as couples. And Canadian Olympian Joannie Rochette performs a tribute to her dead mother. Good lord. Now, normally I’d say skip it, but I know in a lot of households this won’t be possible. So in the interest of preventing domestic strife, here’s my advice: Record this, watch the end of the basketball games live, then watch this afterward. Everybody ends up happy and no one’s stuck sleeping on the couch.

Catch up

“Breaking Bad” marathon (starting at 8 p.m., AMC). A selection of six of the best episodes from the series’ first two seasons. The third season starts Sunday, so this could serve as a crash-course introduction into one of the most gripping, audacious series on TV.

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“Tonight Show with Jay Leno” (11:35 p.m., NBC). It goes without saying, but extra tonight because Heidi Montag is a guest. Come on, rest of Hollywood, just pretend she doesn’t exist.