College Basketball Viewing Picks for 12/28 & 12/29/2013

All Times Eastern

Men’s schedule courtesy Matt’s College Sports

Women’s schedule courtesy of Eye on Sky and Air Sports

Announcing Assignments courtesy of Eye on Sky and Air Sports

Saturday, December 28

Studio and Pregame Shows
NCAA Men of March: Rick Pitino — CBS, 1 p.m.
NCAA Men of March: John Calipari — CBS, 1:30 p.m.

Men’s

Brooklyn Hoops Winter Festival, Brooklyn, NY
St. John’s vs. Columbia — Fox Sports 1, 2:30 p.m. (Justin Kutcher/Tarik Turner)
Kansas State vs. Tulane — Fox Sports 2, 5 p.m. (Justin Kutcher/Tarik Turner)
Virginia Commonwealth vs. Boston College — Fox Sports 2, 7:30 p.m. (Justin Kutcher/Tarik Turner)

Diamond Head Classic
Akron at South Carolina — ESPNU, 4 p.m. (Joe Davis/Paul Biancardi)

Skip Prosser Classic, Cincinnati, OH
Wake Forest at Xavier — Fox Sports 1, 5 p.m. (Mike Gleason/Bob Wenzel)

noon

Nebraska at Cincinnati — ESPN (Mark Neely/Dan Dakich)
Jackson State at Memphis — ESPNU (Adam Amin/Mark Adams)

Florida International at Georgetown — Fox Sports 1 (John Sadak/Ron Thompson)

1 p.m.

New Jersey Institute of Technology at Butler — Fox Sports 2

Eastern Washington at UConn — SNY (Gary Apple/Tim Welsh//Brendan Burke)

2 p.m.

Illinois-Chicago vs. Illinois at Chicago — Big Ten Network (Dave Revsine/Shon Morris)

Villanova at Syracuse — CBS (Tim Brando/Bill Raftery)

Southern Mississippi at URI — Cox Ocean State Networks (Eric Frede/Abu Bakr)

Eastern Michigan at Duke — ESPN2 (Rich Hollenberg/Len Elmore)
Prairie View A&M at Wisconsin — ESPNU (Jim Barbar/Tim McCormick)

Samford at Marquette — Fox Sports Net-National (Wayne Larrivee/Kevin O’Neill)

Cal-Irvine at Arizona State — Pac-12 Networks (Paul Sunderland/Matt Muehlebach)

4 p.m.

Louisville at Kentucky — CBS (Jim Nantz/Greg Anthony//Tracy Wolfson)

St. Catherine at Utah — Pac-12 Networks (Rich Cellini/Dan Dickau)

Harvard at Fordham — SNY/Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic (Dave Raymond/John Griffin)

4:15 p.m.

New Orleans at Michigan State — Big Ten Network (Kevin Kugler/Jim Jackson)

6 p.m.

Providence at UMass — ESPNU (Kevin Connors/Kara Lawson)

Furham at Cal — Pac-12 Networks (JB Long/Lamar Hurd)

6:30 p.m.

Holy Cross at Michigan — Big Ten Network (Eric Collins/Stephen Bardo)

Old Dominion at Richmond — NBCSN (Mike Corey/Blaine Fowler)

8 p.m.

Missouri at North Carolina — ESPN2 (Jimmy Dykes/Fran Fraschilla)Santa Clara at Gonzaga — ESPNU (Roxy Bernstein/Miles Simon)

Mississippy Valley State at Washington State — Pac-12 Networks

8:30 p.m.

Texas A&M-Corpus Christi at Minnesota — Big Ten Network (Cory Provous/Arriel McDonald)

10 p.m.

Alabama at UCLA — ESPN2 (Dave Pasch/Bill Walton)

Georgia at Colorado — Pac-12 Networks (Jason Knapp/Dan Belluomini)

Women’s

noon

Savannah State at South Carolina — Fox College Sports Atlantic (Jenn Hildreth/Debbie Antonelli)

2 p.m.

Georgetown at Florida — Fox College Sports Atlantic (Mick Hubert/Mike Wise)

3 p.m.

Idaho at Texas — Longhorn Network (Fran Harris/Nell Fortner)

4 p.m.

Loyola Marymount at BYU — BYUtv (Spencer Linton/Kristen Kozlowski)

Sunday, December 29

Men’s

2 p.m.

Texas Southern at TCU — Fox Sports Net-National (Brian Estridge/John Denton)

3 p.m.

Savannah State at Florida — Fox Sports Net-Regional (Arizona/Detroit/Midwest/North/Prime Ticket/San Diego/South/Southwest/STO/Sun Sports) (Dave Neal/Larry Conley)

Morgan State at Oregon — Pac-12 Networks (Rich Cellini/Ernie Kent)

5 p.m.

Canisius at Notre Dame — ESPNU (Mike Couzens/LaPhonso Ellis)

Chicago State at Creighton — Fox Sports 1 (Ed Cohen/Jim Jackson)

Howard at USC — Pac-12 Networks

7 p.m.

Tulsa at Maryland — ESPNU (Mike Crispino/Alexander Cory)

Georgia Tech at Charlotte — Fox Sports 1 (Adam Alexander/Mike Gminski)

Cal Poly at Stanford — Pac-12 Networks (JB Long/Jerrod Collins)

9 p.m.

Hartford at Washington — Pac-12 Networks (Kevin Calabro/Don MacLean)

11 p.m.

Quinnipiac at Oregon State — Pac-12 Networks (Roxy Bernstein/Lamar Hurd)

Women’s

3 p.m.

SMU at Louisville — ESPNU (Melissa Lee/Brooke Weisbrod)

Boston College at Providence — Fox Sports 1 (Tiffany Greene/Brenda VanLengen)Samford at Oklahoma — Fox College Sports Central

5 p.m.

Cincinnati at UConn — ESPN (Bob Picozzi/LaChina Robinson)

Notre Dame at Oregon State — Pac-12 Oregon (Ann Schatz/Mary Murphy)

About Ken Fang

Ken has been covering the sports media in earnest at his own site, Fang's Bites since May 2007 and at Awful Announcing since March 2013. He provides a unique perspective having been an award-winning radio news reporter in Providence and having worked in local television. Fang celebrates the three Boston Red Sox World Championships in the 21st Century, but continues to be a long-suffering Cleveland Browns fan.

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