There’s simply 16 nationally televised school basketball video games right now.
That’s not the whole variety of video games, there’s 65 males’s video games throughout the nation and 85 ladies’s video games. Most of it’s on a streaming platform, that’s all. That consists of each of Marquette’s groups, by the way in which.
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In truth, have been it not for a giant pile of “arranged by television networks” occasion video games, there may not even be this a lot basketball on TV right now. I presume that’s as a result of everybody ran in worry of the deliberate tripleheader of College Football Playoff video games that have been scheduled lengthy prematurely for right now. That’s additionally clearly consuming up quite a lot of community time with ABC/ESPN carrying the primary sport and TNT carrying the final two. ESPN has to present their sport the large remedy, however they’re kicking over to basketball after that wraps up. There’s additionally FCS playoffs and the Division 2 soccer title sport. I get it.
Just kinda lonely out right here for basketball causes.
The largest video games of the day are the 2 ladies’s video games that poke by way of to nationwide tv. This is the second 12 months of Fox’s Champions Classic occasion, so we get #16 Louisville vs #17 Tennessee shiny and early from Brooklyn, adopted by #1 UConn vs #11 Iowa.
Over on the boys’s facet, there’s solely two ranked vs ranked video games, although CBS tried very laborious with the CBS Sports Classic. It’s not their fault that Kentucky and Ohio State have slipped. In any case, CBS nonetheless will get a ranked battle in #8 Houston vs #14 Arkansas on the Prudential Center in New Jersey, after which ESPN will get an excellent one at Madison Square Garden with #3 Duke dealing with #19 Texas Tech.
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If you’re interested by tomfoolery — or maybe actually Tom-foolery — might I level out Oakland vs #9 Michigan State at 11am Central on the Big Ten Network? Last 12 months, Tom Izzo and Greg Kampe wore matching Grinch sweaters once they performed proper across the identical time of the 12 months. The hijinks continued to the postgame press conference when Kampe crashed Izzo’s chat with the media after MSU won 77-58. Who is aware of what these two have cooked up this time?
Here’s the total nationwide tv schedule for faculty basketball right now! All occasions Central, after all.
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Time (CT) |
Game |
Television |
|---|---|---|
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10:00 AM |
#16 Louisville vs #17 Tennessee (at Barclays Center) |
Fox |
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11:00 AM |
Oakland at #9 Michigan State |
Big Ten Network |
|
11:30 AM |
#22 St. John’s vs Kentucky (in Atlanta) |
CBS |
|
Liberty at Dayton |
USA Network |
|
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12:30 PM |
#11 Iowa vs #1 UConn (at Barclays Center) |
Fox |
|
1:00 PM |
Colorado State at Utah State |
CBS Sports Network |
|
2:00 PM |
Ohio State vs #12 North Carolina (in Atlanta) |
CBS |
|
3:00 PM |
Memphis at Mississippi State |
ESPN |
|
4:30 PM |
#8 Houston vs #14 Arkansas (in Newark) |
CBS |
|
5:00 PM |
Maryland at #23 Virginia |
ESPN |
|
5:00 PM |
Bucknell at Iowa |
Big Ten Network |
|
7:00 PM |
#3 Duke vs #19 Texas Tech (at MSG) |
ESPN |
|
Xavier at Georgetown |
FS1 |
|
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Stanford vs Colorado (in Phoenix) |
ESPNU |
|
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Penn at Rutgers |
Big Ten Network |
|
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9:30 PM |
San Diego State at-ish #1 Arizona (in Phoenix) |
ESPN2 |
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