NEW ORLEANS – Five Sun Belt Conference males’s basketball video games will seem on both ESPN2 or ESPNU through the 2025-26 common season.
Three Sun Belt league matchups and one non-conference tilt as a part of the MAC-SBC Challenge will comprise the convention’s wildcard appearances through the 2026 portion of the schedule. Additionally, Troy’s non-conference highway tilt at UAB on Sunday, December 14 shall be televised nationally on ESPN2 at 3 p.m. ET / 2 p.m. CT.
The first wildcard window will characteristic a convention recreation on Saturday, January 10 at 2 p.m. ET / 1 p.m. CT on ESPNU, and the second will shine the highlight on a MAC-SBC Challenge contest on Saturday, February 7 at 6 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. CT on ESPN2.
Sun Belt Conference league video games will earn the third and fourth wildcard choices on Saturday, February 14, at 8:30 p.m. ET / 7:30 p.m. CT on ESPNU, and once more for the common season finale on Friday, February 27, at 9 p.m. ET / 8 p.m. CT on ESPN2. Game choices shall be decided at a later date.
All video games which can be televised on an ESPN community can even be out there on the ESPN app. In addition, each Sun Belt males’s basketball convention recreation and residential non-conference recreation will air on ESPN+.
As a part of the Sun Belt’s complete media rights partnership with ESPN, which runs by way of the 2030-31 educational 12 months, the Worldwide Leader in Sports can even broadcast the championship video games of the Sun Belt Men’s & Women’s Basketball Championships.
The 2026 Visit Pensacola Sun Belt Men’s and Women’s Basketball Championships offered by Air Force Reserve shall be held March 3-9, 2026 on the Pensacola Bay Center in Pensacola, Fla. The girls’s basketball championship recreation shall be broadcast on ESPNU on Monday, March 9, adopted by the boys’s basketball title recreation on ESPN or ESPN2. Tipoff instances shall be introduced at a later date.
Both tournaments shall be held on the Pensacola Bay Center which is able to host the Visit Pensacola Sun Belt Men’s and Women’s Basketball Championships offered by Air Force Reserve by way of the 2029-30 marketing campaign.
On Thursday, October 23, the Sun Belt announced a partnership with Pensacola Sports, the designated sports activities tourism company for Escambia County, to make Visit Pensacola the title sponsor of the Sun Belt Basketball Championships and the presenting sponsor of the Sun Belt Football Championship Game.
For further residence and away broadcast data, please verify the schedule pages SunBeltSports.org and particular person faculty web pages.
2025-26 Sun Belt Men’s Basketball ESPN2/ESPNU Regular-Season TV Schedule
Sunday, December 14 – Troy at UAB – 3 p.m. ET / 2 p.m. CT (ESPN2)
Saturday, January 10 – Wildcard – 2 p.m. ET / 1 p.m. CT [ESPNU]
Wednesday, February 7 – Wildcard – 6 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. CT [ESPN2]
Saturday, February 14 – Wildcard – 8:30 p.m. ET / 7:30 p.m. CT [ESPNU]
Saturday, February 27 – Wildcard – 9 p.m. ET / 8 p.m. CT [ESPN2
Potential Matchups for ESPN2/ESPNU Wildcard Games
Saturday, January 10
App State at Coastal Carolina
Marshall at Georgia State
Old Dominion at James Madison
Georgia Southern at South Alabama
Texas State at Arkansas State
ULM at Southern Miss
Troy at Louisiana
Saturday, February 7
MAC-SBC Challenge
Saturday, February 14
App State at James Madison
Georgia State at Old Dominion
Marshall at Georgia Southern
South Alabama at Arkansas State
Troy at Southern Miss
ULM at Texas State
Friday, February 27
Old Dominion at Georgia State
Coastal Carolina at James Madison
Georgia Southern at Marshall
App State at Texas State
Louisiana at Arkansas State
Southern Miss at South Alabama
ULM at Troy