I think it is very cool and fun that the powers that be at the national television networks have agreed to celebrate National Marquette Day by putting FORTY-SEVEN college basketball games on nationwide broadcast today.
What’s that? It’s probably more because they’re shortening up Sunday’s broadcast schedule because of the Super Bowl? Okay, you probably have a point there.
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IN ANY CASE, there are 18 games with at least one ranked team involved, including all three women’s basketball games on national TV today. None of those really jump off the page as major contenders to be a great watch, but there is #22 Maryland visiting Nebraska and Ranked Team On Road is worth paying attention to on some level.
There are three ranked vs ranked men’s basketball games on today, and all three are in the evening or later. #4 Duke going to #14 North Carolina gets us started at 5:30 Central, #5 Illinois at #10 Michigan State is at 7pm Central, and if you’re a daredevil, you can stay up for #8 Houston at #16 BYU at 9:30pm CT.
Circling back to ranked teams on the road against an unranked foe, we come out of the gate hot with that, as #9 Nebraska, #21 Arkansas, and #24 Louisville all have road tipoffs at 11am Central today. After that, you have to wait until past dinner time for another one, as #20 Clemson is out on the West Coast at Cal at 7pm Central, followed by #17 Florida tangling with the College Station crowd when they visit Texas A&M for a battle of the two teams tied for first in the SEC (no, seriously, A&M is tied with Florida but not ranked, it’s crazy) and #25 Tennessee fighting with their neighbor to the north in Kentucky.
There is a ton of streaming only broadcasts, including #19 Saint Louis hosting La Salle, #23 Miami visiting Marshall in the MAC/Sun Belt Challenge, and #6 Gonzaga trying to avoid a second straight loss while going on the road against Oregon State in men’s basketball action. There’s also #12 Michigan State at Penn State, #20 West Virginia hosting Arizona, and #18 Texas Tech going down south to Houston for streaming only women’s highlights.
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Here’s the full national television schedule for the day, with all times Central, as always.
Time (CT)
Game
Television
11:00 AM
Butler at #1 Connecticut
FS1
#9 Nebraska at Rutgers
Big Ten Network
Syracuse at #18 Virginia
ESPN
#21 Arkansas at Mississippi State
ESPN2
#24 Louisville at Wake Forest
ACC Network
Temple at East Carolina
ESPNU
Wisconsin at Indiana
Fox
Villanova at Georgetown
TNT/truTV
Drexel at Elon
CBS Sports Network
12:00 PM
Oregon at #12 Purdue
CBS
Missouri at South Carolina
SEC Network
12:30 PM
Virginia Tech at NC State
The CW
1:00 PM
Baylor at #7 Iowa State
ESPN
#22 Maryland at Nebraska
Big Ten Network
Butler at Marquette
FS1
Kansas State at TCU
TNT
Miami at Boston College
ACC Network
Princeton at Penn
ESPNU
Ole Miss at Texas
ESPN2
Missouri State at Liberty
CBS Sports Network
1:30 PM
Utah at #11 Kansas
Fox
2:30 PM
Oklahoma at #15 Vanderbilt
SEC Network
2:45 PM
SMU at Pittsburgh
The CW
3:00 PM
Oklahoma State at #1 Arizona
ESPN
DePaul at Providence
FS1
Towson at Hofstra
CBS Sports Network
Alabama at Auburn
ESPN2
Morehead State at UT Martin
ESPNU
3:30 PM
Grand Canyon at UNLV
Fox
5:00 PM
Arizona State at #15 Baylor
FS1
Akron at Troy
ESPN2
South Dakota at South Dakota State
CBS Sports Network
Georgia at LSU
SEC Network
5:30 PM
#4 Duke at #14 North Carolina
ESPN
7:00 PM
#5 Illinois at #10 Michigan State
Fox
#20 Clemson at California
ACC Network
Utah State at Wyoming
CBS Sports Network
Georgia Tech at Stanford
ESPNU
San Diego State at Air Force
FS1
7:30 PM
#17 Florida at Texas A&M
SEC Network
#25 Tennessee at Kentucky
ESPN
8:00 PM
UC Irvine at UC Santa Barbara
ESPNU
8:30 PM
Arizona State at Colorado
ESPN2
9:00 PM
Washington at UCLA
FS1
Boise State at New Mexico
CBS Sports Network
9:30 PM
#8 Houston at #16 BYU
ESPN
10:30 PM
San Francisco at Saint Mary’s
ESPN2
