BIG EAST Releases WBB Tip Times, TV Coverage

The upcoming season marks the primary yr of a six-year media settlement, which can span from 2025-26 by 2030-31, encompassing protection on FOX Sports (FOX, FS1), NBC Sports (NBC, Peacock), and TNT Sports (TNT, TBS and truTV).  The settlement will present complete nationwide broadcast, cable, and direct-to-consumer streaming protection of BIG EAST girls’s and males’s basketball video games. ESPN+ may even stream a minimal of 75 girls’s basketball video games. 

Below is a breakdown by community:

 

FOX /FS1

• FOX will air 4 video games whereas FS1 will present 13 video games in 2025-26 to mark the fifth straight yr BIG EAST girls’s basketball can be featured on the published community.
• Iowa and UConn will meet on Saturday, Dec. 20 at Barclays Center as a part of the Women’s Champions Classic. Tipoff is ready for 1 p.m. ET on FOX.
• The Huskies are again on FOX on Monday, Jan. 19 as they host Notre Dame at 5 p.m. at Gampel Pavilion, adopted by Tennessee at UConn on Sunday, Feb. 1 at midday.
• The girls’s basketball slate on FS1 kicks-off with Florida State at UConn on Sunday, Nov. 9 at 4:30 p.m.
• Other non-conference video games on FS1 embrace Creighton vs. Okay-State (12/14; 3:30 p.m.) and DePaul vs. Michigan State (12/14; 5:30 p.m.).
• UConn will host 5 opponents on FS1 – DePaul (12/7; 1 p.m.), Seton Hall (1/3; Noon), Villanova (1/15; 7 p.m.), Butler (2/7; Noon) and Providence (2/22; Noon).
• UConn-Xavier will meet in Cincinnati on Sunday, Nov. 30 at 2:30 p.m. on FS1, whereas St. John’s-Villanova with air on FS1 on Saturday, Jan. 24 at 2 p.m.
• Marquette has a pair of video games on FS1 – on the street in opposition to Creighton (2/8; 1 p.m.) and at dwelling versus UConn (2/14; 1 p.m.)                                                 

NBC Sports/Peacock

• Peacock will stream 25 girls’s video games, together with all 10 of the convention’s girls’s basketball match video games. 
• The 2026 BIG EAST Women’s Basketball Tournament introduced by JEEP will happen from Friday, March 6 to Monday, March 9 at Mohegan Sun.
• UConn will tackle Ohio State in a non-conference matchup at PeoplesBank Arena on Sunday Nov. 16 at midday on Peacock.
• Peacock will stream Villanova at Georgetown and Marquette at DePaul on Thursday, Dec. 4, beginning at 7 p.m. 
• Between Dec. 17 and Feb. 26 there are 9 video games on Peacock (full convention schedule beneath).
• Providence welcomes UConn on New Years Eve for a 3 p.m. tipoff, streamed on Peacock.
• A Peacock doubleheader will characteristic Butler-Seton Hall and Providence-Marquette on Sunday, March 1.

TNT Sports

• TNT Sports will characteristic 15 common season girls’s basketball video games, together with 14 league-play matchups.  TNT will function its main community, together with truTV through the 2025-26 season.
• UConn performs host to Loyola Chicago on Wednesday, Nov. 12 on truTV at 7:30 p.m.
• On Sunday, Dec. 28, UConn and Butler will play on TNT and truTV at 4 p.m. in Hinkle Fieldhouse, adopted by Creighton at Georgetown at 6 p.m. on truTV.
• St. John’s will journey to tackle UConn on Wednesday, Jan. 7 at 7:30 p.m. on truTV. Creighton at Marquette play the subsequent day on truTV at 8 p.m.
• TruTV is ready to televise a BIG EAST doubleheader on Sunday, Jan. 11, starting with Villanova at Providence, adopted by Creighton at UConn.
• Both TNT and truTV will air UConn at Georgetown on Thursday, Jan. 22 at 7:30 p.m.
• Another truTV doubleheader takes place on Sunday, Feb. 1 with Creighton at Seton Hall and Marquette at Georgetown.
• Creighton performs host to Villanova on Sunday, Feb. 15 at 5 p.m. on truTV.
• Thursday, Feb. 26 options Georgetown at UConn and Providence at Creighton on TNT and truTV.
• On the ultimate day of standard season play, St. John’s welcomes UConn at 8 p.m. on Sunday, March 1 on TNT and truTV.

ESPN+

• This previous July, the BIG EAST and ESPN agreed upon a six-year digital media rights settlement, including tons of of reside BIG EAST occasions to ESPN’s strong school sports activities portfolio. 
• For the 2025-26 season, 127 girls’s basketball video games, together with 73 convention video games will seem on ESPN+.
• As a part of the brand new six-year deal, a minimal of 25 non-conference video games yearly for BIG EAST males’s basketball and 200 Olympic sports activities occasions will stream on ESPN+ yearly starting with the 2025-26 educational yr.