Network’s forty fifth season of school basketball protection leads as much as 25 mixed males’s and girls’s championships
CBS Sports is as soon as once more going all-in on faculty basketball this season. The community is lined as much as produce greater than 300 video games throughout the CBS Television Network, Paramount+, and CBS Sports Network.
Now getting into its forty fifth consecutive season of hoops protection, the community will carry among the sport’s most anticipated matchups and convention championships, supported by a deep bench of studio programming and evaluation all year long.
Broad Coverage Across Platforms
CBS and Paramount+ will showcase 35 regular-season appearances by AP Preseason Top 25 groups, together with 18 ranked applications and eight of the Top 10. The motion begins Thanksgiving week with the CBS Sports Thanksgiving Classic (Duke vs. Arkansas, Nov. 27) and continues by way of a stacked Dec. 20 tripleheader that includes Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio State, Houston, and Arkansas.
CBS may even function the longtime dwelling of postseason motion, carrying 15 computerized NCAA Tournament bids — together with the Big Ten Men’s and Women’s Championships, in addition to title video games from the Missouri Valley, Mountain West, and Atlantic 10 conferences. The Big Ten Men’s Championship returns to CBS for the twenty eighth consecutive yr, underscoring the community’s long-running dedication to marquee faculty basketball moments main as much as March Madness
CBS Sports Network Expands Its Footprint
CBS Sports Network (CBSSN), in the meantime, continues to bolster its id as a vacation spot for faculty protection, that includes groups from 19 completely different conferences and awarding 10 computerized NCAA bids throughout males’s and girls’s play.
Among its highlights, CBSSN will televise championship video games from Conference USA, Coastal Athletic Association, Patriot League, and Summit League on the boys’s aspect, and from Mountain West, C-USA, Mid-American, Coastal Athletic Association, Patriot League, and Summit League on the ladies’s aspect. The schedule contains six matchups that includes AP Preseason Top 10 groups and 28 ladies’s video games total, reflecting CBS Sports’ rising emphasis on ladies’s basketball programming.
Studio Shows Anchor Season-Long Coverage
Complementing the on-court motion, CBS Sports’ signature studio franchise Inside College Basketball will ship pregame, halftime, and postgame protection throughout each CBS and CBSSN. The community’s digital and streaming retailers may even play a serious function: the Eye on College Basketball podcast, hosted by Matt Norlander and Gary Parrish, will stream dwell on YouTube three days per week, whereas CBS Sports HQ, CBSSports.com, and 247Sports will present each day highlights, evaluation, and bracketology updates.