{"id":109641,"date":"2026-03-02T04:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T09:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/?p=109641"},"modified":"2026-02-27T11:22:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T16:22:30","slug":"march-madness-has-a-new-anthem-its-the-zac-brown-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/03\/march-madness-has-a-new-anthem-its-the-zac-brown-band\/","title":{"rendered":"March Madness Has A New Anthem: It&#8217;s The Zac Brown Band"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>March Madness is switching things up in 2026.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year, the intro song was\u00a0<strong><em>&#8220;Abracadabra&#8221;<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by\u00a0<strong>Lady Gaga<\/strong>, but this year, it&#8217;s the\u00a0<strong>Zac Brown Band<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their song\u00a0<strong><em>&#8220;Give It Away&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>will be played before every tip-off, from the first game, all the way through to the Final Four.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And in a 68-team bracket, you&#8217;re going to hear that song a whole lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>March is about to sound a lot more country, and we&#8217;re here for it.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Give It Away&quot; by Zac Brown Band will be this year&#39;s anthem for March Madness coverage on CBS\/TNT.<br><br>Last year&#39;s song was &quot;Abracadabra&quot; by Lady Gaga. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vpAwFPaBU5\">pic.twitter.com\/vpAwFPaBU5<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Sports TV News &amp; Updates (@TVSportsUpdates) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TVSportsUpdates\/status\/2026364119369265579?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 24, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March Madness is switching things up in 2026.\u00a0 Last year, the intro song was\u00a0&#8220;Abracadabra&#8221;\u00a0by\u00a0Lady Gaga, but this year, it&#8217;s the\u00a0Zac Brown Band. Their song\u00a0&#8220;Give It Away&#8221;\u00a0will be played before every tip-off, from the first game, all the way through to the Final Four. And in a 68-team bracket, you&#8217;re going to hear that song a","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":83388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[464],"tags":[11914,7284,1318],"class_list":["post-109641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-give-it-away","tag-march-madness","tag-zac-brown-band"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 15:39:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/03\/march-madness-has-a-new-anthem-its-the-zac-brown-band\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109665,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109641\/revisions\/109665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}