FORTY-SIX NATIONALLY TELEVISED COLLEGE BASKETBALL GAMES? WITH BOTH MARQUETTE TEAMS PLAYING BACK-TO-BACK?
What a time to be alive.
17 games on the board today have at least one ranked team involved. FIVE of those games are ranked on ranked games. One of them is one of the three women’s basketball games on national TV today, and that’s #3 South Carolina at #6 LSU on ABC tonight. Go Fightin’ Dawn Staleys.
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The men’s ranked on ranked games are spread out all day long. We start out hot with one of them, #20 Clemson at #4 Duke right away at 11am CT. One hour later, #9 Kansas fights with Hilton Magic at #5 Iowa State. After that ends, there’s #25 Kentucky at the O-Dome to deal with #14 Florida ready and waiting for you. Get some food in you after that one, and then at 5:30pm CT, there’s #16 Texas Tech out in the desert against #1 Arizona.
Elsewhere on the men’s slate, #12 Gonzaga, #13 Purdue, #15 Virginia, #17 St. John’s, and #24 Louisville are all on Upset Watch because they are on the road against an unranked opponent. I presume most of those are one-off games because they’re not fancy leagues like the Big East with a double round robin, but I will note that St. John’s lost to Providence at home already and this is the return bout.
There is, of course, a ton of stuff that is streaming only. On the men’s side, there’s #3 Houston and #6 UConn on the road with both of those games against unranked foes on Peacock. The women’s calendar has #16 Texas Tech and #24 Princeton on the road, both against unranked opponents, both on ESPN+.
Here’s the full national television broadcast schedule for the day, with all times Central, as always.
Time (CT)
Game
Television
11:00 AM
#20 Clemson at #4 Duke
ESPN
TCU at Oklahoma State
ESPN2
Georgia Tech at Notre Dame
The CW
Cal at Boston College
ACC Network
Navy at Colgate
CBS Sports Network
Samford at East Tennessee State
ESPNU
11:45 AM
UCLA at #2 Michigan
CBS
12:00 PM
#1 UConn at Marquette
FS1
#9 Kansas at #5 Iowa State
ABC
Northwestern at #7 Nebraska
Big Ten Network
#17 St. John’s at Providence
TNT/truTV
Texas A&M at #19 Vanderbilt
SEC Network
1:00 PM
Pittsburgh at #11 North Carolina
ESPN
Florida State at Virginia Tech
ACC Network
SMU at Syracuse
The CW
North Dakota State at North Dakota
CBS Sports Network
Liberty at UTEP
ESPN2
Tennessee Tech at Southern Indiana
ESPNU
1:30 PM
Villanova at Creighton
Fox
2:00 PM
#25 Kentucky at #14 Florida
ABC
Marquette at Xavier
TNT/truTV
Penn State at Oregon
Big Ten Network
2:30 PM
Georgia at Oklahoma
SEC Network
3:00 PM
Colorado at #22 BYU
FS1
#24 Louisville at Baylor
ESPN
Stanford at Wake Forest
ACC Network
Miami at NC State
ESPN2
Hofstra at UNC Wilmington
CBS Sports Network
4:00 PM
#13 Purdue at Iowa
Fox
5:00 PM
VCU at Richmond
CBS Sports Network
West Virginia at UCF
FS1
LSU at Tennessee
SEC Network
5:30 PM
#16 Texas Tech at #1 Arizona
ESPN
Yale at Harvard
ESPNU
Mississippi State at Ole Miss
ESPN2
7:00 PM
#15 Virginia at Oiho State
Fox
Memphis at Utah State
CBS Sports Network
7:30 PM
#3 South Carolina at #6 LSU
ABC
Auburn at #21 Arkansas
ESPN
Marshall at Georgia Southern
ESPNU
South Carolina at Alabama
SEC Network
Texas at Missouri
ESPN2
8:00 PM
Minnesota at Washington
Big Ten Network
9:00 PM
Nevada at San Diego State
CBS Sports Network
9:30 PM
#12 Gonzaga at Santa Clara
ESPN
Saint Mary’s at Pacific
ESPN2





















