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.
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 |