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College Basketball Viewing Picks For 03/09 & 03/10/2013, All Times Eastern

Men’s Schedule Courtesy of Matt’s College Sports on TV

Announcing Assignments Courtesy of Eye on Sky and Air Sports

Saturday, March 9

Pregame and Studio Shows
College GameDay live from Washington, DC — ESPNU, 10 a.m./ESPN, 11 a.m.
Big Ten Tip-Off Show — Big Ten Network, 11:30 a.m.
Big Ten Game Break — Big Ten Network, 2 p.m.
Inside College Basketball — CBS Sports Network, 4 p.m.
Big Ten Tip-Off Show — Big Ten Network, 4:45 p.m.
Big Ten Game Break — Big Ten Network, 7 p.m.
College GameDay live from Chapel Hill, NC — ESPN, 8 p.m.
Big Ten Finale ’12-’13 — Big Ten Network, 10:30 p.m.
Inside College Basketball — CBS Sports Network, 10:30 p.m.
College Basketball Live — ESPN2, 1:30 a.m. (Sunday)

Conference Tournaments
Men’s
Atlantic Sun Championship, Macon, GA
Mercer vs. Florida Gulf Coast — ESPN2, noon (Roy Philpott/Derek Whittenburg)

CAA Tournament, Richmond, VA
Quarterfinals
George Mason vs. Drexel — Comcast SportsNet (Houston/Mid-Atlantic/New England/NorthWest)/The Comcast Network, 3:30 p.m. (John Castleberry/John Feinstein)
Delaware vs. Hofstra — Comcast SportsNet (Bay Area/Houston/Mid-Atlantic Plus/New England), 6 p.m. (Al Koken/Ron Thompson)
James Madison vs. William & Mary — Comcast SportsNet (Houston/Mid-Atlantic Plus/New England)/The Comcast Network, 8:30 p.m. (Al Koken/Ron Thompson)

Horizon League Tournament, Valparaiso, IN
Semifinals
Detroit vs. Wright State — ESPN3, 6 p.m. (Jim Barber/Malcolm Huckaby)
Valparaiso vs. Green Bay — ESPNU, 8:30 p.m. (Jim Barber/Malcolm Huckaby)

Missouri Valley Conference Tournament, St. Louis, MO
Semifinals
Creighton vs. Indiana State — MVC TV/Comcast SportsNet Chicago/Fox Sports Midwest/Fox College Sports Pacific, 2:30 p.m. (John Rooney/Mark Adams)
Wichita State vs. Illinois State — MVC TV/Comcast SportsNet Chicago/Fox Sports Midwest/Fox College Sports Pacific, 5 p.m. (John Rooney/Mark Adams)

Northeast Conference Tournament
Semifinals
Mount St. Mary’s at Robert Morris — MSG2/Fox College Sports Central, noon (Dave Popkin/Tim Capstraw/Paul Dottino)
Long Island University-Brooklyn at Wagner — MSG 2/Fox College Sports Central, 2:30 p.m. (Dave Popkin/Tim Capstraw/Paul Dottino)

Ohio Valley Conference Championship, Nashville, TN
Belmont vs. Murray State — ESPN2, 7 p.m. (Rich Hollenberg/Adrian Branch)

Patriot League Tournament
Semifinals
Lehigh at Lafayette — CBS Sports Network, 2 p.m. (Don Criqui/Vince Curran)
Army at Bucknell — CBS Sports Network, 4:30 p.m. (Bob Socci/Chris Spatola)

Summit League Tournament, Sioux Falls, SD
Quarterfinals
South Dakota State vs. IUPUI — Fox College Sports Atlantic, 7 p.m. (Brad Niemann/Tom Newitt)
Western Illinois vs. South Dakota — Fox College Sports Atlantic, 9:30 p.m. (Brad Niemann/Tom Newitt)

Sun Belt Conference Tournament, Hot Springs, AR
Quarterfinals
Middle Tennessee vs. Louisiana-Lafayette/North Texas — CSS/Cox Sports Television, 7:30 p.m. (Tom Dore/Bob Donewald)
Arkansas State vs. Florida Atlantic/Troy — CSS/Cox Sports Television, 10 p.m. (Tom Dore/Bob Donewald)

West Coast Conference Tournament, Las Vegas, NV
Semifinals
Gonzaga vs. Loyola Marymount — ESPN2, 9 p.m. (Dave Flemming/Sean Farnham)
St. Mary’s vs. San Diego — ESPN2, 11:30 p.m. (Dave Flemming/Sean Farnham)

Women’s

ACC Tournament, Greensboro, NC
Semifinals
Florida State vs. Duke — Fox Sports Net-regional (Florida/South/Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic Plus), 1 p.m. (Mike Hogewood/Debbie Antonelli)
North Carolina vs. Maryland — Fox Sports Net (Florida/South/Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic), 3:30 p.m. (Mike Hogewood/Debbie Antonelli)

Big East Tournament, Hartford, CT
Second Round
St. John’s vs. Seton Hall — Big East Network, noon (Bob Picozzi/Brooke Weisbrod/Allison Williams)
Rutgers vs. South Florida — Big East Network, 2:30 p.m. (Bob Picozzi/Broke Weisbrod/Allison Williams)
DePaul vs. Marquette — Big East Network, 6 p.m. (Bog Picozzi/LaChina Robinson/Allison Williams)
Villanova vs. Georgetown — Big East Network, 8:30 p.m. (Bob Picozzi/LaChina Robinson/Allison Williams)

Big Ten Tournament, Hoffman Estates, IL
Semifinals
Nebraska vs. Purdue — Big Ten Network, 5 p.m. (Kevin Kugler/Stephanie White/Lisa Byington)
Penn State vs. Michigan State — Big Ten Network, 7:30 p.m. (Kevin Kugler/Stephanie White/Lisa Byington)

Big 12 Tournament, Dallas, TX
Quarterfinals
Texas Tech vs. Oklahoma State — Fox Sports Net, noon (Ron Thulin/Brenda Van Lengen)
Baylor vs. Kansas State — Fox Sports Net, 2:30 p.m. (Ron Thulin/Brenda VanLengen)
Iowa State vs. Kansas — Fox Sports Net, 7 p.m. (Ron Thulin/Brenda Van Lengen)
Oklahoma vs. West Virginia — Fox Sports Net, 9:30 p.m. (Ron Thulin/Brenda Van Lengen)

Pac-12 Tournament, Seattle, WA
Semifinals
UCLA vs. Cal — Pac-12 Network, 9 p.m. (Anne Marie Anderson/Tammy Blackburn/Krista Blunk)
Stanford vs. Colorado — Pac-12 Network, 11:30 p.m. (Anne Marie Anderson/Tammy Blackburn/Krista Blunk)

SEC Tournament, Duluth, GA
Semifinals
Tennessee vs. Texas A&M — ESPNU, 4 p.m. (Cara Capuano/Nell Fortner)
Kentucky vs. Georgia — ESPNU, 6:30 p.m. (Cara Capuano/Nell Fortner)

noon
Georgia Tech at Boston College — ACC Network (Dwayne Ballen/Cory Alexander)
Minnesota at Purdue — Big Ten Network (Eric Collins/Jim Jackson)
Florida at Kentucky — CBS (Ian Eagle/Jim Spanarkel)
UAB at Memphis — CBS Sports Network (Dave Ryan/Pete Gillen)
Syracuse at Georgetown — ESPN (Sean McDonough/Jay Bilas/Bill Raftery)
Providence at UConn — ESPNU (Beth Mowins/Tim Welsh)

1:30 p.m.
Iowa State at West Virginia — Big 12 Network (Brad Sham/Rich Zvosec)
Kansas State at Oklahoma State — Big 12 Network (Mitch Holthus/Bryndon Manzer)
LaSalle at Saint Louis — NBC Sports Network (Mike Corey/Dave Kaplan)
Mississippi at LSU — SEC Network (Clay Matvick/Joe Dean)
South Carolina at Vanderbilt — SEC Network (Joe Davis/Barry Booker)

2 p.m.
Dayton at George Washington — A-10 Network (Todd Bell/Tony White)
Pittsburgh at DePaul — Big East Network (Anish Shroff/Bob Wenzel)
UCLA at Washington — CBS (Brian Anderson/Doug Gottlieb)
UMass at URI — Cox Sports RI (Mike Mancuso/Chris DiSano)
Marquette at St. John’s — ESPN (Mike Patrick/Len Elmore)
North Carolina State at Florida State — ESPN2 (Dave O’Brien/Doris Burke)
Texas A&M at Arkansas — ESPNU (Tom Hart/Matt Doherty)

2:15 p.m.
Nebraska at Iowa — Big Ten Network (Wayne Larrivee/Shon Morris)

2:30 p.m.
Clemson at Miami (FL) — ACC Network (Tim Brant/Bobby Cremins)
Oregon at Utah — Pac-12 Network (Ted Robinson/Ernie Kent)

3:30 p.m.
San Diego State at Boise State — NBC Sports Network (Paul Burmeister/Blaine Fowler)

4 p.m.
South Florida at Cincinnati — Big East Network (Mike Couzens/Sean Kearney)
Texas at Texas Tech — Big 12 Network (Dave Armstrong/Stephen Howard)
Notre Dame at Louisville — CBS (Verne Lundquist/Mike Gminski)
Missouri at Tennessee — ESPN (Mark Jones/Jimmy Dykes)
Georgia at Alabama — SEC Network (Dave Baker/Jon Sundvold)

4:30 p.m.
Arizona State at Arizona — Fox Sports Net-national (Justin Kutcher/Marques Johnson) (Clair Wyant forced me to include this)
Oregon State at Colorado — Pac-12 Network (Rich Cellini/Dan Belloumini)

5 p.m.
Oklahoma at TCU — Fox Sports Southwest/Fox Sports Arizona Plus (Brian Estridge/John Denton)

5:30 p.m.
Auburn at Mississippi State — Fox Sports Net-regional (Florida/South/Southwest) (Dave Neal/Larry Conley)
Cornell at Harvard — NBC Sports Network (Randy Moss/Dalen Cuff)

6 p.m.
Kansas at Baylor — ESPN (Jon Sciambi/Fran Fraschilla)

6:30 p.m.
Xavier at Butler — CBS Sports Network (Brad Johansen/John Griffin)
USC at Washington State — Pac-12 Network (JB Long/Lamar Hurd)

7 p.m.
Long Beach State at Pacific — Fox College Sports Pacific/Fox Sports West (Mike Pomeranz/Jud Buechler/Cheryl Gorman)

8:30 p.m.
Nevada at Colorado State — CBS Sports Network (Andrew Catalon/Steve Lappas/Lauren Gardner)

9 p.m.
Duke at North North Carolina — ESPN/ESPN 3D (Dan Shulman/Jay Bilas/Dick Vitale/Samantha Ponder)

Sunday, March 10

Studio Shows
ACC Sunday Night — ESPNU, 5:30 p.m.
College Basketball Live — ESPNU, 8 p.m.

Conference Tournaments
Men’s

Big South Championship, Myrtle Beach, SC
Charleston Southern vs. Liberty — ESPN2, noon (Mark Neely/LaPhonso Ellis)

CAA Tournament, Richmond, VA
Semifinals
Northeastern vs. George Mason — NBC Sports Network, 2 p.m. (Todd Harris/Ron Thompson/Mike Corey)
Delaware vs. James Madison — NBC Sports Network, 4:30 p.m. (Todd Harris/Ron Thompson/Mike Corey)

Missouri Valley Conference Championship, St. Louis, MO
Creighton vs. Wichita State — CBS, 2 p.m. (Tim Brando/Bill Raftery)

Summit League Tournament, Sioux Falls, SD
Quarterfinals
Oakland vs. IFPW — Fox College Sports Atlantic, 7 p.m. (Brad Niemann/Tom Newitt)
North Dakota State vs. Missouri-Kansas City — Fox College Sports Atlantic, 9:30 p.m. (Brad Niemann/Tom Newitt)

Sun Belt Conference Tournament, Hot Springs, AR
Semifinals
Florida International vs. Middle Tennessee — CSS/Cox Sports Television, 7:30 p.m. (Tom Dore/Bob Donewald)
Western Kentucky vs. Arkansas State — CSS/Cox Sports Television, 10 p.m. (Tom Dore/Bob Donewald)

Women’s

ACC Championship, Greensboro, NC
Duke vs. North Carolina — ESPN2, 2 p.m. (Pam Ward/Debbie Antonelli)

A-10 Tournament, Philadelphia, PA
Semifinals
Dayton vs. St. Joseph’s — CBS Sports Network, 1:30 p.m. (John Sadak/Julianne Viani)
Temple vs. Fordham — CBS Sports Network, 4 p.m. (John Sadak/Julianne Viani)

Big East Tournament, Hartford, CT
Quarterfinals
Louisville vs. St. John’s — ESPNU, noon (Beth Mowins/Brooke Weisbrod/Allison Williams)
Notre Dame vs. South Florida — ESPNU, 2:30 p.m. (Beth Mowins/Brooke Weisbrod/Allison Williams)
UConn vs. DePaul — Big East Network/ESPN3, 6 p.m. (Bob Picozzi/LaChina Robinson/Allison Williams)
Syracuse vs. Villanova — ESPNU, 8:30 p.m. (Bob Picozzi/LaChina Robinson/Allison Williams)

Big Ten Championship, Hoffman Estates, IL
Purdue vs. Michigan State — ESPN2, 4 p.m. (Adam Amin/Stephanie White)

Big 12 Tournament, Dallas, TX
Semifinals
Oklahoma State vs. Baylor — Fox Sports Net-national, 2 p.m. (Ron Thulin/Brenda VanLengen)
Iowa State vs. Oklahoma — Fox Sports Net-national, 4:30 p.m. (Ron Thulin/Brenda VanLengen)

Pac-12 Championship, Seattle, WA
UCLA vs. Stanford — ESPN2, 8 p.m. (Roxy Bernstein/Mary Murphy)

SEC Championship, Duluth, GA
Kentucky vs. Texas A&M — ESPN2, 6 p.m. (Cara Capuano/Nell Fortner)

noon
Wisconsin at Penn State — Big Ten Network (Eric Collins/Sean Harrington)
VCU at Temple — CBS (Kevin Harlan/Dan Bonner/Reggie Miller)

12:30 p.m.
Illinois at Ohio State — ESPN (Bob Wischusen/Dan Dakich)

2 p.m.
Virginia Tech at Wake Forest — ACC Network (Steve Martin/Cory Alexander)

4 p.m.
Indiana at Michigan — CBS (Jim Nantz/Clark Kellogg)

6 p.m.
Northwestern at Michigan State — Big Ten Network (Kevin Kugler/Tim Doyle)
Maryland at Virginia — ESPNU (Carter Blackburn/Jay Williams)

What You’ll See on Fox Sports 1

So Fox Sports 1 has been officially announced? What’s next? The launch on Saturday, August 17 which will include a NASCAR Truck Series race and a UFC card.

During the event that introduced US version of Fox Sports 1 to the world (let’s not forget the original Fox Sports 1 in Australia), we learned that the network has been built upon what Fox is calling “7 Sports Pillars,” College Basketball, College Football, MLB, NASCAR, NFL, Soccer and UFC fights.

Let’s go over what each pillar will bring to Fox Sports 1.

College Basketball

While it was not formally announced on Tuesday, we can expect Fox Sports 1 to be the official cable home of the new Big East, those “Catholic 7″ basketball-only schools to be joined by Butler and Xavier from the A-10 and maybe even Creighton from the Missouri Valley. The new Big East will join the Big 12, Conference USA and Pac-12 on Fox Sports 1. Expect to see basketball games in the winter on Monday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday.

College Football

Games from C-USA, the Big 12 and Pac-12 will be on Thursday nights as well as triple and quadrupleheaders on Saturdays. In addition, Erin Andrews will host a Saturday morning pregame show on FS1. The Fox Mothership will continue to air college football games on Saturday nights. The 2013 schedule for Fox includes Notre Dame at Stanford as well as the Big Ten Championship and the Cotton Bowl.

MLB

In 2014, Fox’s new contract with Major League Baseball kicks in. Fox Sports 1 will air a full schedule of 26 regular season games which will include games from its Fox Sports Net affiliates. Expect to see plenty of the New York Yankees from YES, the Anaheim Angels from Fox Sports West and the Texas Rangers from Fox Sports Southwest. In addition, Fox Sports 1 will carry two League Division Series and a number of League Championship Series. The LCS was the latest development. Fox’s broadcast schedule will reduce from 24 regular season games this year to 12 in 2014. Fox will still carry the All-Star Game, most of the LCS and the entire World Series.

NASCAR

As Speed converts to Fox Sports 1, its NASCAR coverage will carryover to FS1. This will include the entire Camping World Truck Series and the familiar NASCAR RaceDay and NASCAR Victory Lane programs from Speed. In 2015, selected Sprint Cup races will move to Fox Sports 1 as will the All-Star race. The Daytona 500 Speedweeks festivities which include the Twin 125′s and the Duel will be aired on FS 1.

NFL

While Fox Sports 1 doesn’t have the rights to show games, it will have a daily program, Fox Football Daily which will include the cast of Fox NFL Sunday. The show will air daily at 6 p.m. ET. Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long, Jay Glazer, Gus Johnson, Erin Andrews and Mike Pereira are listed as participants, but as the show evolves, this falls under the category “subject to change.” This show will premiere when Fox Sports 1 launches in August.

Soccer

It’s expected that Fox will do away with Fox Soccer and convert it to FX2, an all-entertainment channel. With the loss of the English Premier League to NBC, Fox will move the UEFA Champions League, Europa League, FA Cup and CONCACAF events to Fox Sports 1. UEFA Champions League and Europa League will be aired on Tuesday through Thursday afternoons. And when Fox’s contract with FIFA begins in 2015, Fox Sports 1 will air Women’s World Cup games that year and in 2019 and the men in 2018 and 2022. Other soccer leagues that were part of Fox Soccer Plus can be expected to be dispersed to Fox Sports 2 when that channel launches at a later date.

UFC

On Fox Sports 1′s launch date in August, a UFC card will be aired. Also, Fox Sports 1 will be the home to UFC programming on Wednesday nights. During Super Bowl XLVIII week, Fox Sports 1 is expected to have a card the night before the Big Game. Super Bowl Saturday normally has a UFC pay per view, but it’s expected to be aired on FS1 in 2014.

ORIGINAL PROGRAMMING

The news about Regis Philbin was confirmed on Monday during his appearance on of all places, “The View.” Regis will be host of “Rush Hour” which will have a panel of guests from the media, sports and fandom. This will air at 5 p.m. ET and lead into Fox Football Daily.

At 11 p.m. ET, Fox Sports 1 will air Fox Sports Live, the challenger to ESPN’s venerable SportsCenter. According to the Fox Sports executives, the network will invest heavily into a newsgathering operation that will produce a nightly program that will review the day’s events. A morning edition of Fox Sports Live will begin airing in January.

The Fox Sports Net affiliates and local Fox TV stations will be encouraged to contribute reports to Fox Sports Live.

OTHER FEATURES

It’s been seen on the Cotton Bowl and on the Daytona 500, the double box that will air commercials and also show live action so viewers don’t miss anything. Reviews on this has been mixed thus far, but I expect this to win fans over during NASCAR coverage.

Fox Sports Go will be an mobile and tablet app that will stream live events from Fox Sports, Fox Sports 1 and the Fox Sports Net affiliates. Subscribers to participating cable and satellite providers will have to authenticate in order to watch the events on their mobile device.

And there in a nutshell is what you’ll see on Fox Sports 1 when it launches on August 17.

Fox Sports San Diego To Air Full-Time on DirecTV Starting April 1

Saw this on the Fox Sports San Diego website this week. Some good news for DirecTV subscribers in San Diego, starting on April 1, Fox Sports San Diego will begin airing full-time. It means that no more of Padres games and then DirecTV pulls the signal, everything that FS San Diego airs will be on Channel 694. In anticipation of the launch, DirecTV will air a whole slew of Padres Spring Training games including one on Sunday. It’s one of eight games DirecTV will air from Fox Sports San Diego.

In addition to the Padres, Fox Sports San Diego picks up Los Angeles Clippers and Anaheim Ducks games from Fox Sports West and Prime Ticket. And as Fox Sports’ dispute with Time Warner Cable continues over the price per subscriber, it gives San Diegans an opportunity to watch the regional sports network full-time.

Here’s the press release from Fox Sports San Diego.

FOX Sports San Diego Launches Full-Time on DIRECTV April 1

Eight Spring Training Contests and Preview Show Also Made Available to DIRECTV Customers

San Diego – FOX Sports San Diego (FSSD) today announced the launch of their full-time regional sports network on DIRECTV beginning Monday, April 1, in time for the San Diego Padres’ first regular season game in New York.

DIRECTV first partnered with FOX Sports San Diego in April of 2012 providing live San Diego Padres telecasts, Padres Live pregame and postgame shows, first-run Padres related programming, and frequent Los Angeles Clippers and Anaheim Ducks games to their customers. Customers will now be able to enjoy everything the full-time regional sports network has to offer, including over 700 live sporting events, as well as both regional and national sports-related programming.

Prior to April 1, DIRECTV will make eight of the Padres’ ten spring training contests on FOX Sports San Diego available to their customers, as well as the first airing of FSSD’s Padres Season Preview Show, debuting March 22 at 6:00 PM.

Following is a list of Padres related programming available on DIRECTV prior to April 1.

• Sunday, March 3 at 12:00 PM: Padres vs. Chicago White Sox
• Monday, March 4 at 12:00 PM: Padres at Texas Rangers
• Tuesday, March 5 at 12:00 PM: Padres vs. Los Angeles Dodgers
• Monday, March 11 at 1:00 PM: Padres vs. Oakland A’s
• Tuesday, March 12 at 7:00 PM: Padres vs. San Francisco Giants
• Wednesday, March 13 at 1:00 PM: Padres vs. Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
• Friday, March 22 at 6:00 PM: Padres Season Preview Show
• Friday, March 22 at 7:00 PM: Padres vs. Seattle Mariners
• Sunday, March 24 at 1:00 PM: Padres vs. Milwaukee Brewers

For information on the Padres 2013 season schedule on FOX Sports San Diego, click here.

And there you have it.

College Basketball Viewing Picks For 03/02 & 03/03/2013, All Times Eastern

Men’s Schedule Courtesy of Matt’s College Sports

Announcing Assignments Courtesy of Eye on Sky and Air Sports

Saturday, March 2

Pregame & Studio Shows
College Gameday live from Los Angeles, CA — ESPNU, 10 a.m./ESPN, 11 a.m.
Inside College Basketball — CBS Sports Network, 11 a.m.
Big Ten Tip-Off Show 2013 — Big Ten Network, 2:30 p.m.
Big Ten Game Break — Big Ten Network, 5 p.m.
Inside College Basketball — CBS Sports Network, 6 p.m.
75 Years of NCAA March Madness: Ultimate Bracket — CBS Sports Network, 7 p.m.
Big Ten Game Break — Big Ten Network, 7:15 p.m.
College GameDay live from Los Angeles, CA — ESPN, 8 p.m.
Big Ten Finale ’12-’13 — Big Ten Network, 10 p.m.
College Basketball Live — ESPN2, 1:30 a.m. (Sunday)

11:30 a.m.
Robert Morris at Central Connecticut State — Fox College Sports Pacific (Dave Popkin/Joe DeSantis/Paul Dottino)

noon
Maryland at Wake Forest — ACC Network (Tim Brant/Cory Alexander)
Louisville at Syracuse — CBS (Ian Eagle/Clark Kellogg)
Army at Lehigh — CBS Sports Network (Bob Socci/Chris Spatola)
Old Dominion at Northeastern — Comcast SportsNet (California/Mid-Atlantic/New England/Northwest)/The Comcast Network (Gary Tanguay/Walter McCarty)
Alabama at Florida — ESPN (Mark Jones/Jimmy Dykes)
Butler at Virginia Commonwealth — ESPN2 (Carter Blackburn/Stephen Bardo/Andy Katz)

Women’s: Texas at Oklahoma State — Fox Sports Net (Detroit Plus/Southwest) (Mike Wolfe/Casey Kendrick)

1 p.m.
Jacksonville State at Belmont — ESPNU (Adam Amin/Brooke Weisbrod)
Memphis at Central Florida — Fox Sports Net-national/Fox College Sports Atlantic (Ron Thulin/Perry Clark/Jenn Hildreth)

Women’s: South Florida at UConn — SNY (Andrew Catalon/Meg Culmo/Kerith Burke)

1:30 p.m.
Iowa State at Oklahoma — Big 12 Network (Dave Armstrong/Bryndon Manzer)
Tennessee at Georgia — SEC Network (Dave Baker/Joe Dean)

2 p.m.
UConn at Cincinnati — Big East Network (Anish Shroff/Bob Wenzel)
West Virginia at Kansas — CBS (Kevin Harlan/Jim Spanarkel)
UMass at Xavier — CBS Sports Network (Brad Johansen/Steve Lappas)
Marshall at Houston — CSS/Comcast SportsNet Houston/The Comcast Network (David Saltzman/Tom Penders)
Notre Dame at Marquette — ESPN (Mike Patrick/Len Elmore)
Wichita State at Creighton — ESPN2 (Rich Hollenberg/Mark Adams)
George Mason at Delaware — NBC Sports Network (Mike Corey/Ron Thompson)

3 p.m.
Penn State at Minnesota — Big Ten Network (Eric Collins/Sean Harrington)
Valparaiso at Green Bay — ESPNU (Jim Barbar/Bob Valvano)
Arizona State at USC — Fox Sports Net-national (Steve Physioc/Marques Johnson)

4 p.m.
Richmond at Dayton — A-10 Network (Bob McElligott/Tony White)
TCU at Texas Tech — Big 12 Network (Mitch Holthus/Dan Hughes)
Kentucky at Arkansas — CBS (Brian Anderson/Dan Bonner)
Simon Fraser at Western Washington — CBS Sports Network (John Sadak/Julianne Viani)
Saint Louis at George Washington — CSS/Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic Plus/Fox Sports Midwest Plus (Byron Kerr/Glenn Consor/Kellie Cowan)
Texas at Oklahoma State — ESPN (Jon Sciambi/Fran Fraschilla)
UNLV at Nevada — NBC Sports Network (Steve Schlanger/Blaine Fowler)
LSU at Missouri — SEC Network (Clay Matvick/Jon Sundvold)

Women’s: Notre Dame at Providence — Big East Network (Bob Picozzi/LaChina Robinson)

5 p.m.
Colorado at Cal — ESPNU (Dave Flemming/Sean Farnham)
Indiana State at Evansville — Comcast SportsNet Chicago/Fox Sports Midwest (Tom Ackerman/Rich Zvosec)
Mississippi at Mississippi State — Fox Sports Net-regional (Arizona/Detroit/Florida/Prime Ticket/San Diego/South/Southwest Plus) (Dave Neal/Larry Conley)
Portland at Gonzaga — WCC TV (Andy Mauser/Brad Holland)

Women’s: Iowa State at TCU — Fox Sports Net-national (Chuck LaMendola/Janice Dziuk)

5:15 p.m.
Nebraska at Illinois — Big Ten Network (Wayne Larrivee/Tom Doyle)
North Dakota State at Nebraska-Omaha — Fox College Sports Central (Tom Niemann/Brad Newitt)

6 p.m.
James Madison at William & Mary — Comcast SportsNet (Mid-Atlantic/Northwest) (Al Koken/John Feinstein)
Miami (FL) at Duke — ESPN (Dave O’Brien/Dick Vitale/Doris Burke)
New Mexico State at Denver — ESPN Plus (Trey Bender/Stephen Howard)
Harvard at Penn — NBC Sports Network (Randy Moss/Calen Duff)

7 p.m.
Kansas State at Baylor — ESPN2 (Mark Neely/Bob Knight)
South Carolina at Texas A&M — ESPNU (Tom Hart/Matt Doherty)

Women’s: Baylor at West Virginia — Fox Sports Net-national (Bob Licht/Brenda VanLengen)

7:30 p.m.
Iowa at Indiana — Big Ten Network (Kevin Kugler/Jim Jackson/Stephanie Wells)

8 p.m.
St. John’s at Providence — Big East Network (Eric Frede/Ron Perry)
Clemson at Virginia Tech — Fox Sports Net-regional (Florida/South/SportSouth/Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic/NESN) (Mike Hogewood/Eddie Fogler)

Women’s: Kansas at Oklahoma — Fox Sports Oklahoma/Fox College Sports Pacific (Bob Carpenter/Billy Tubbs/Jessica Coody)

9 p.m.
Arizona at UCLA — ESPN/ESPN 3D (Dan Shulman/Jay Bilas/Samantha Ponder)
Vanderbilt at Auburn — ESPN2 (Dave Lamont/Kara Lawson)
Rutgers at Georgetown — ESPNU (Lou Canellis/Tim Welsh)

11 p.m.
BYU at Loyola Marymount — ESPNU (Roxy Bernstein/Danny Schayes)

Sunday, March 3

noon
Villanova at Pittsburgh — Big East Network (Kevin Connors/John Celestand)

Women’s: Michigan at Ohio State — Big Ten Network (Mike Wolf/Patricia Babcock McGraw)
Women’s: Southern Mississippi at Tulane — CBS Sports Network (Don Criqui/Amy Lawrence)

1 p.m.
Purdue at Wisconsin — ESPN (Bob Wischusen/Dan Dakich)

Women’s: Florida at South Carolina — Fox Sports Net-regional (Arizona Plus/Detroit/North Plus/SportSouth/Sun Sports) (Dave Baker/Elizabeth Moreau)
Women’s: Florida State at Virginia — Fox Sports Net-regional (Arizona/Carolinas/Detroit Plus/Florida/South/Prime Ticket/Tennessee/Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic/NESNplus) (Mike Hogewood/Debbie Antonelli)

1:30 p.m.
Women’s: Vanderbilt at Georgia — ESPNU (Melissa Lee/Steffi Sorenson)

2 p.m.
DePaul at South Florida — Big East Network (Rich Hollenberg/Paul Biancardi)
Florida State at North Carolina — CBS (Marv Albert/Steve Kerr)

Women’s: Wisconsin at Michigan State — Big Ten Network (Lisa Byington/Shelly Till)
Women’s: URI at Virginia Commonwealth — CBS Sports Network (John Sadak/Julianne Viani)
Women’s: St. Joseph’s at Dayton — ESPN2 (Pam Ward/Swin Cash)
Women’s: LSU at Texas A&M — SEC Network (Cara Capuano/Nell Fortner)
Women’s: Miami (OH) at Akron — STO (Mike Cairns/Jackie Windon)

3:30 p.m.
Washington State at Washington — Fox Sports Net-national (Justin Kutcher/Marques Johnson)

Women’s: Drexel at Delaware — Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic (Mike Corey/Pam Roecker)
Women’s: Tennessee at Kentucky — ESPNU (Sam Gore/Maria Taylor)

4 p.m.
Virginia at Boston College — ACC Network (Tom Werme/Dave Odom)
Michigan State at Michigan — CBS (Verne Lundquist/Bill Raftery)

Women’s: Illinois at Purdue — Big Ten Network (Eric Collins/Stephanie White)
Women’s: North Carolina at Duke — ESPN2 (Brenda VanLengen/Carolyn Peck)

5 p.m.
Utah at Stanford — Pac-12 Network (Paul Sunderland/Ernie Kent)

6 p.m.
North Carolina State at Georgia Tech — ESPNU (Carter Blackburn/Jay Williams/Allison Williams)

Women’s: Penn State at Nebraska — Big Ten Network (Kevin Kugler/LaChina Robinson)

College Basketball Viewing Picks For 02/23 & 02/24/2013, All Times Eastern

Men’s Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports

Announcing Assignments courtesy of Eye on Sky and Air Sports

Saturday, February 22

Pregame & Studio Shows
College GameDay live from Lexington, KY — ESPNU, 10 a.m./ESPN, 11 a.m.
75 Years of NCAA March Madness: Top 10 Upsets — CBS, 1 p.m.
75 Years of NCAA March Madness: Top 10 Champs That Never Were — CBS, 1:30 p.m.
Inside College Basketball — CBS Sports Network, 6:30 p.m.
College GameDay live from Lexington, KY — ESPN, 8 p.m.
College Basketball Live — ESPN2, midnight

BracketBusters
Iona at Indiana State — ESPNU, 11 a.m. (Doug Sherman/Sean Harrington)
Pacific at Western Michigan — ESPN3, 1 p.m. (Dan Gutowsky/Nate Ross)
Canisius at Vermont — ESPN3, 1 p.m. (Ed Cohen/Rob Kennedy)
Eastern Kentucky at Valparaiso — ESPNU, 1 p.m. (Jim Barbar/Brooke Weisbrod)
Montana at Davidson — ESPNU, 3 p.m. (Ray Philpott/Paul Biancardi)
Northwestern State at Niagara — ESPN3, 3 p.m. (Mike Gleason/Daymeon Fishback)
Detroit at Wichita State — ESPN2, 4 p.m. (Dave Lamont/Darrin Horn)
Creighton at St. Mary’s — ESPN, 6 p.m. (Mark Jones/Jimmy Dykes)
South Dakota State at Murray State — ESPN2, 8 p.m. (Roxy Bernstein/Mark Adams)
Denver at Northern Iowa — ESPN3, 8 p.m. (Mike Couzens/Rich Zvosec)
Ohio at Belmont — ESPN2, 10 p.m. (Mike Crispino/Malcolm Huckaby)

noon
Seton Hall at Louisville — Big East Network (Anish Shroff/Bob Wenzel)
Clemson at Maryland — ESPN2 (Carter Blackburn/Jay Williams)

Women’s: Johnson C. Smith at Shaw — CBS Sports Network
Women’s: Akron at Kent State — STO (Mike Cairns/Jackie Windon)

1 p.m.
Southern Mississippi at Memphis — Fox Sports Net-national (Ron Thulin/Perry Clark/Jenn Hildreth)
Miami (FL) at Wake Forest — Fox Sports Net-regional (Carolinas/Detroit Plus/Florida/South/Tennessee/Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic Plus/NESN) (Rich Waltz/Eddie Fogler)

Women’s: Wisconsin at Northwestern — Big Ten Network (Lisa Byington/Shelley Till/Kara Lentz)
Women’s: Texas at Baylor — Fox Sports Southwest/Fox College Sports (Kris Radcliffe/Jim Haller)

1:30 p.m.
Texas Tech at Iowa State — Big 12 Network (Dave Armstrong/Stephen Howard)
Alabama at LSU — SEC Network (Joe Davis/Barry Booker)
Vanderbilt at Mississippi State — SEC Network (Dave Baker/Jon Sundvold)

2 p.m.
South Carolina at Georgia — CBS (Spero Dedes/Doug Gottlieb)
Virginia Commonwealth at Xavier — CBS Sports Network (Brad Johansen/Steve Wolf)
Oklahoma State at West Virginia — ESPN2 (Jon Sciambi/Fran Fraschilla)

Women’s: Syracuse at South Florida — Big East Network (Bob Picozzi/LaChina Robinson)

3 p.m.
Washington State at Arizona — Fox Sports Net-national (Steve Physioc/Marques Johnson)

Women’s: Indiana at Illinois — Big Ten Network (Eric Collins/Stephanie White)
Women’s: Iowa State at Kansas State — Fox Sports Midwest/Fox College Sports Pacific (Brian Smoller/Missy Heidrick)
Women’s: Oklahoma State at Oklahoma — Fox Sports-regional (Detroit Plus/North Plus/Oklahoma Plus/Southwest) (Mike Wolfe/Casey Kendrick)

4 p.m.
TCU at Kansas — Big 12 Network (Mitch Holthus/Reid Gettys)
Georgetown at Syracuse — CBS (Tim Brando/Bill Raftery)
George Washington at St. Joseph’s — Comcast SportsNet (Bay Area/Chicago/Mid-Atlantic Plus)/CSS/The Comcast Network (Scott Graham/Joe Lunardi)
William & Mary at George Mason — Comcast SportsNet (Houston/Mid-Atlantic/Northwest/Philadelphia) (Al Koken/Ron Thompson)
North Carolina State at North Carolina — ESPN (Dave O’Brien/Doris Burke)
New Mexico at Colorado State — NBC Sports Network (Steve Schlanger/Stan Van Gundy)
Tennessee at Texas A&M — SEC Network (Clay Matvick/Joe Dean)

Women’s: Seton Hall at UConn — SNY

5 p.m.
Baylor at Oklahoma — ESPNU (Brad Sham/Bob Valvano)
Auburn at Mississippi — Fox Sports Net-regional (Detroit/Midwest/North/Prime Ticket/San Diego/South/Southwest/Sun Sports) (Dave Neal/Larry Conley)
Binghamton at New Hampshire — WBIN/Fox College Sports Central (Mike Murphy/Bob Lipman)
Santa Clara at Portland — WCC TV (Ari Wolfe/Brad Holland)

6 p.m.
Marquette at Villanova — ESPN2 (Mike Patrick/Len Elmore)
Nevada at San Diego State — NBC Sports Network (Todd Harris/Blaine Fowler)
Cal at Oregon State — Pac-12 Network (JB Long/Lamar Hurd)

7 p.m.
Arkansas at Florida — ESPNU (Tom Hart/Matt Doherty)

8 p.m.
UConn at DePaul — Big East Network (Lou Canellis/Sean Kearney)
Harvard at Yale — CBS Sports Network (Don Criqui/Alaa Abdelnaby)
Kansas State at Texas — Longhorn Network (Paul Sunderland/Bruce Bowen/Kaylee Hartung)
Stanford at Oregon — Pac-12 Network (Ted Robinson/Ernie Kent)

8:30 p.m.
Weber State at Oral Roberts — Fox College Sports Pacific (Bob Carpenter/Mickey Michalec)

Women’s: Sacramento State at Northern Arizona — Fox Sports Arizona

9 p.m.
Missouri at Kentucky — ESPN/ESPN 3D (Dan Shulman/Dick Vitale/Samantha Ponder)
Providence at Rutgers — ESPNU (Beth Mowins/Tim Welsh)

11 p.m.
Washington at Arizona State — ESPNU (Dave Flemming/Sean Farnham)

Sunday, February 24

noon
Pittsburgh at St. John’s — Big East Network (Eamon McAnaney/John Celestand)
Lehigh at Lafayette — CBS Sports Network (Bob Socci/Chris Spatola)

1 p.m.
Illinois at Michigan — ESPN (Bob Wischusen/Dan Dakich)

Women’s: Michigan at Penn State — Big Ten Network (Lisa Byington/Patricia Babcock-McGraw/Dave Leno)
Women’s: Purdue at Minnesota — ESPN2 (Jim Barbar/Maria Taylor)
Women’s: Texas Tech at Kansas — Fox Sports Net-national (Ron Thulin/Brenda VanLengen)
Women’s: Miami at Georgia Tech — Fox Sports Net-regional (Arizona Plus/Carolinas/Detroit Plus/North Plus/Prime  Ticket/South/Tennessee/Sun Sports/Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic) (Mike Hogewood/Christy Winters-Scott)

1:30 p.m.
Women’s: North Carolina State at North Carolina — ESPNU (Roy Philpott/LaChina Robinson)

2 p.m.
Boston College at Duke — ACC Network (Tim Brant/Cory Alexander)
Georgia Tech at Virginia — ACC Network (Tom Werme/Debbie Antonelli)
Cincinnati at Notre Dame — CBS (Ian Eagle/Jim Spanarkel)
LaSalle at URI — Comcas SportsNet Philadelphia/Cox Sports RI (Mike Mancuso/Chris DiSano)

Women’s: St. Bonaventure at George Washington — CBS Sports Network (John Sadak/Julianne Viani)
Women’s: Georgia at Mississippi — CSS/Comcast Sportsnet California (Matt Stewart/Joe Ciampi)
Women’s: Tennessee at Arkansas — SEC Network (Melissa Lee/Nell Fortner)

3 p.m.
Women’s: Iowa at Nebraska — Big Ten Network (Kevin Kugler/Stephanie White)
Women’s: Duke at Maryland — ESPN2 (Pam Ward/Carolyn Peck)
Women’s: Arizona at Arizona State — Pac-12 Network (Ann Schatz/Kyndra de St. Aubin)

3:30 p.m.
UCLA at USC — Fox Sports Net-national (Justin Kutcher/Marques Johnson/Steve Kerr)

Women’s: Notre Dame at DePaul — ESPNU (Lou Canellis/Brooke Weisbrod)

4 p.m.
Michigan State at Ohio State — CBS (Kevin Harlan/Clark Kellogg)

4:30 p.m.
Women’s: James Madison at Delaware — Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic/CSS/The Comcast Network (Al Koken/Pam Roecker)

5 p.m.
Women’s: Texas A&M at Vanderbilt — ESPN2 (Adam Amin/Swin Cash)
Women’s: USC at UCLA — Pac-12 Network (Anne Marie Anderson/Tammy Blackburn)
Women’s: Oregon State at Cal — Pac-12 Network (Bay Area/Oregon/Washington) (Krista Blunk/Mary Murphy)

6 p.m.
Northwestern at Purdue — Big Ten Network (Eric Collins/Dan Bonner)
Florida State at Virginia Tech — ESPNU (Carter Blackburn/Jay Williams/Allison Williams)

7 p.m.
Old Dominion at Hofstra — Comcast SportsNet (California/Houston/Mid-Atlantic/Northwest)/CSS/SNY/The Comcast Network (Joe Beninati/John Feinstein)

Women’s: Oregon at Stanford — Pac-12 Network (Jim Watson/Rose Gold-Onwude)

8 p.m.
LIU-Brooklyn at Wagner — ESPNU (Bob Picozzi/Derek Whittenburg)

College Basketball Viewing Picks For 02/16 & 02/17/2013, All Times Eastern

Men’s Schedule Courtesy of Matt’s College Sports

Announcing Assignments Courtesy of Eye on Sky and Air Sports

Saturday, February 16

Pregame & Studio Shows
College GameDay live from Lawrence, KS — ESPNU, 10 a.m./ESPN, 11 a.m.
75 Years of NCAA March Madness: Top 10 Improbable Heroes — CBS, 12:30 p.m.
College GameDay live from Lawrence, KS — ESPN, 8 p.m.
Big Ten Finale ’12-’13 — Big Ten Network, 10 p.m.
Inside College Basketball — CBS Sports Network, midnight
College Basketball Live — ESPN2, midnight

11 a.m.
Kent State at Ohio — ESPNU (Joe Davis/Brooke Weisbrod)

11:30 a.m.
Central Connecticut State at Mount St. Mary’s — Fox College Sports Atlantic (Dave Popkin/Tim Capstraw/Paul Dottino)

noon
Boston College at Florida State — ACC Network (Tom Werde/Dave Odom)
Virginia at North Carolina — ACC Network (Steve Martin/Eddie Fogler)
Notre Dame at Providence — Big East Network (Eamon McAnaney/Bob Wenzel)
Clayton State at Montevallo — CBS Sports Network (Jason Knapp/TBD)
William & Mary at Old Dominion — Comcast SportsNet (Houston/Mid-Atlantic/New England/Northwest/Philadelphia)/CSS (Brent Harris/Brian Oliver)
Villanova at UConn — ESPN (Mike Patrick/Len Elmore)
Xavier at Dayton — ESPN2 (Mike Crispino/Stephen Bardo)

Women’s: Michigan State at Michigan — Big Ten Network (Lisa Byington/Stephanie White)

1 p.m.
Kentucky at Tennessee — CBS (Ian Eagle/Clark Kellogg)
Pittsburgh at Marquette — CBS (Spero Dedes/Greg Anthony)
Rutgers at DePaul — ESPNU (Beth Mowins/Tim Welsh)
St. Joseph’s at LaSalle — NBC Sports Network (Dave Strader/Mike Kaplan)

Women’s: Central Connecticut State at Mount St. Mary’s — Fox College Sports Pacific (Paul Dottino/Phyllis Mangina/John Schmeelk)

1:30 p.m.
Oklahoma at Oklahoma State — Big 12 Network (Dave Armstrong/Bryndon Manzer)
TCU at Iowa State — Big 12 Network (Chad McKee/Kevin Lehman)
Florida at Auburn — SEC Network (Clay Matvick/Joe Dean)

2 p.m.
Army at Navy — CBS Sports Network (Bob Socci/Chris Spatola)
Purdue at Indiana — ESPN (Bob Wischusen/Dan Dakich)
Virginia Tech at North Carolina State — ESPN2 (Carter Blackburn/Fran Fraschilla)
Georgia Tech at Wake Forest — Fox Sports Net-regional (Arizona Plus/Carolinas/Detroit/North Plus/Prime Ticket/San Diego/South/Tennessee/Sun Sports/Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic/NESN)

Women’s: Pittsburgh at Syracuse — Big East Network (Bob Picozzi/LaChina Robinson)

2:30 p.m.
SMU at Tulane — Fox Sports Net-national/Fox College Sports Atlantic (Pete Pranica/Dan Bonner/Debbie Antonelli)

3 p.m.
Creighton at Evansville — ESPNU (Mitch Holthus/Mark Adams)
Northern Arizona at North Dakota — Fox College Sports Central (Dan Hammer/Greg Stemen)

4 p.m.
Texas Tech at West Virginia — Big 12 Network (Mark Neely/Rich Zvosec)
Butler at Fordham — CBS Sports Network (Brad Johansen/Steve Lappas)
Georgia State at George Mason — Comcast SportsNet (Chicago/Houston/Mid-Atlantic/Northwest/Philadelphia)/CSS (Joe Beninati/John Feinstein)
Missouri at Arkansas — ESPN (Mark Jones/Jimmy Dykes)
UCLA at Stanford — ESPN2 (Dave Pasch/Bill Walton)
South Carolina at Alabama — SEC Network (Dave Baker/Jon Sundvold)

Women’s: UConn at Rutgers — SNY
Women’s: Western Michigan at Ohio — STO

4:30 p.m.
Houston at Tulsa — Fox Sports Net-national/Fox College Sports Atlantic (Ron Thulin/Mike Gminski/Jenn Hildreth)

Women’s: North Dakota at Northern Arizona — Fox Sports Arizona Plus (Jordan Byrd/Sharon Falor/Heather Hodgeson)

5 p.m.
Mississippi State at LSU — ESPNU (Tom Hart/Matt Doherty)
Western Illinois at South Dakota State — Fox College Sports Pacific (Tom Nieman/Brad Newitt)

6 p.m.
Temple at UMass — CBS Sports Network (Brent Stover/Steve Wolf)
Duke at Maryland — ESPN (Dave O’Brien/Doris Burke/Jeannine Edwards)
Detroit at Valparaiso — ESPN2

6:30 p.m.
Texas A&M at Vanderbilt — Fox Sports net-regional (Arizona Plus/Detroit Plus/Midwest Plus/South/Southwest/West/Wisconsin/Sun Sports) (Dave Neal/Larry Conley)

7 p.m.
Baylor at Kansas State — ESPNU (Brad Sham/Bob Valvano)
Princton at Harvard — NBC Sports Network (Randy Moss/Dalen Cuff)
Oregon at Washington State — Pac-12 Network (JB Long/Ernie Kent)

7:15 p.m.
Oakland at Missouri-Kansas City — Fox College Sports Pacific (Neil Harwell/Jaycie Pearson)

8 p.m.
Syracuse at Seton Hall — Big East Network (Mike Corey/Jim Spanarkel)
Michigan State at Nebraska — Big Ten Network (Kevin Kugler/Tim Doyle)
Memphis at Marshall — CBS Sports Network (Dave Ryan/Pete Gillen)
Georgia at Mississippi — ESPN2 (Dave Lamont, Kyle Macy)

8:30 p.m.
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi at Oral Roberts — Fox College Sports Central (David Garrett/Mickey Michaelec)

Women’s: Utah State at New Mexico State — Fox Sports Arizona Plus

9 p.m.
Portland at BYU — BYU TV (Dave McCann/Steve Cleveland/Robbie Bullough)
Texas at Kansas — ESPN/ESPN 3D (Dan Shulman/Jay Bilas/Holly Rowe)
Arizona State at Colorado — ESPNU (Dave Flemming/Sean Farnham)
San Diego State at UNLV — NBC Sports Network (Paul Burmister/Blaine Fowler)

11 p.m.
New Mexico State at Utah State — ESPNU (Roxy Bernstein/Corey Williams)
Oregon State at Washington — Fox Sports Net-national (Justin Kutcher/Marques Johnson/Laura McKeeman)
Cal State-Fullerton at Cal-Irvine — Fox Sports Prime Ticket/Fox Sports San Diego/Fox College Sports Central (Justin Alderson/Michael Cage/Kelli Tennant)

Sunday, February 17

noon
Penn State at Michigan — Big Ten Network (Tom Hamilton/Shon Morris)
Holy Cross at American — CBS Sports Network (Bob Socci/Steve Spatola)

1 p.m.
Ohio State at Wisconsin — CBS (Tim Brando/Bill Raftery)
Louisville at South Florida — ESPN (Rich Hollenberg/Bob Wenzel)

Women’s: North Carolina at Florida State — Fox Sports Net-regional (Carolinas/Prime Ticket/San Diego/South/Tennessee/Sun Sports/Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic/NESN) (Tom Werme/Chelsea Shine)

1:30 p.m.
Women’s: DePaul at Louisville — ESPNU (Jim Barbar/Sonya Beeler) (2013 Play 4Kay)
Women’s: West Virginia at Iowa State — Fox Sports Net-national (Ron Thulin/Brenda VanLengen)
Women’s: LSU at Mississippi State — Fox Sports Net-regional (Florida/North Plus/SportSouth) (Dave Baker/Daymeon Fishback)

2 p.m.
Women’s: Temple at St. Joseph’s — CBS Sports Network (John Sadak/Julianne Viani)
Women’s: South Carolina at Mississippi — SEC Network (Cara Capuano/Steffi Sorensen)

2:30 p.m.
2013 Play 4Kay
Women’s: Alabama at Auburn — ESPN2 (Clay Matvick/Brooke Weisbrod)
Women’s: Georgia Tech at North Carolina State — ESPN2 (Joe Davis/Deb Antonelli)
Women’s: Notre Dame at Marquette — ESPN2 (Pam Ward/Stephanie White)
Women’s: Oklahoma at Kansas — ESPN2 (Holly Rowe/Fran Fraschilla)

2 p.m.
Minnesota at Iowa — Big Ten Network (Brian Anderson/Sean Harrington)

3 p.m.
Arizona at Utah — Pac-12 Network (Paul Sunderland/Brevin Knight)

Women’s: Wake Forest at Duke — Fox Sports Net-regional (Carolinas/Prime Ticket/San Diego/South/Tennessee/Sun Sports/Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic/NESN) (Mike Hogewood/Christy Winters Scott)

3:30 p.m.
Women’s: Stanford at UCLA — ESPNU (Rich Cellini/Rosalyn Gold-Onwude) (2013 Play 4Kay)
Women’s: Texas at Texas Tech — Fox Sports Net-national (Bob Licht/Dan Hughes)

4 p.m.
Women’s: UNLV at San Diego State — CBS Sports Network (James Bates/Tammy Blackburn)

5 p.m.
Women’s: Towson at George Mason — Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic (Joe Beninati/John Feinstein)
Women’s: Cal at USC — Pac-12 Network (Krista Blunk/Mary Murphy)

2013 Play 4Kay
Women’s: Cincinnati at St. John’s — ESPN2 (Bob Picozzi/Rebecca Lobo)
Women’s: Iowa at Purdue — ESPN2 (Beth Mowins/Nell Fortner)
Women’s: Maryland at Virginia — ESPN2 (Melissa Lee/LaChina Robinson)
Women’s: Vanderbilt at Tennessee — ESPN2 (Adam Amin/Maria Taylor)

6 p.m.
Miami at Clemson — ESPNU (Carter Blackburn/Jay Williams/Allison Williams)

7 p.m.
Washington State at Oregon — Pac-12 Network (Ann Schatz/Ann Meyers-Drysdale)

7:30 p.m.
Illinois at Northwestern — Big Ten Network (Eric Collins/Mike Kelley)
James Madison at Delaware — Comcast SportsNet (Houston/Mid-Atlantic/Philadelphia)/CSS (Mike Reghi/Brad Jackson)

8 p.m.
Wichita State at Illinois State — ESPNU (Mitch Holthus/Mark Adams)

10 p.m.
USC at Cal — Fox Sports Net-national (Steve Physioc/Corey Williams)

College Basketball Viewing Picks For 02/09 & 02/10/2013, All Times Eastern

Men’s Schedule Courtesy of Matt’s College Sports

Announcing Assignments Courtesy of Eye on Sky and Air Sports

Saturday, February 9

Pregame and Studio Shows
College GameDay live from South Bend, IN — ESPNU, 10 a.m./ESPN, 11 a.m.
75 Years of March Madness: Top 10 Coaches — CBS, 12:30 p.m.
Big Ten Tip-Off Show — Big Ten Network, 4 p.m.
Big Ten Game Break — Big Ten Network, 6:30 p.m.
College GameDay live from South Bend, IN — ESPN, 8 p.m.
Big Ten Finale ’12-’13 — Big Ten Network, 9 p.m.
Inside College Basketball — CBS Sports Network, midnight
College Basketball Live — ESPN2, midnight

11 a.m.
Temple at Dayton — ESPNU (Jason Benetti/Bob Valvano)

noon
Georgetown at Rutgers — Big East Network (Anish Shroff/Bob Wenzel)
Hofstra at North Carolina-Wilmington — Comcast SportsNet (Houston/Mid-Atlantic Plus/New England)/CSS/MSG Network/The Comcast Network (Mike Gleason/Charlie Woollum)
Michigan at Wisconsin — ESPN (Bob Wischusen/Dan Dakich)
Florida State at Wake Forest — ESPN2 (Carter Blackburn/Paul Biancardi)

Women’s: Nova Southeastern at Florida Southern — CBS Sports Network

1 p.m.
Mississippi at Missouri — CBS (Ian Eagle/Greg Anthony)
Akron at Miami (OH) — ESPNU (Adam Amin/Brooke Weisbrod)
Georgia Tech at Virginia Tech — Fox Sports Net-regional (Arizona/Carolinas/Detroit Plus/Florida/North Plus/Prime Ticket/San Diego/South/Tennessee/Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic/NESN) (Rich Waltz/Cory Alexander)
Southern Illinois-Edwardsville at Tennessee-Martin — Fox Sports Midwest/Fox Sports South (Darren Kinnard/Kelly Burke)

1:30 p.m.
Oklahoma State at Texas — Big 12 Network (Dave Armstrong/Reid Gettys)
Arkansas at Vanderbilt — SEC Network (Clay Matvick/Joe Dean)

2 p.m.
DePaul at Marquette — Big East Network (Quint Kessenich/John Celestand)
Delaware at George Mason — CBS Sports Network (Don Criqui/Marc Jackson)
Tulane at Houston — CSS/Comcast SportsNet (Bay Area/Houston/Northwest)/The Comcast Network (Brett Dolan/Tom Penders)
North Carolina at Miami (FL) — ESPN (Dave O’Brien/Doris Burke/Jeannine Edwards)
St. Joseph’s at UMass — ESPN2 (Marc Kestecher/Stephen Bardo)

3 p.m.
South Florida at Villanova — ESPNU (Beth Mowins/Tim Welsh)
Eastern Washington at Northern Arizona — Fox Sports Arizona Plus/Fox College Sports (Mitch Strohman/Dave Brown/Kara Hammer)

Women’s: Montana at North Dakota — Fox College Sports Central (Dan Hammer/Craig Stemen)
Women’s: West Virginia at Kansas — Fox Sports Net-national (Bob Licht/Brenda VanLengen)

4 p.m.
Texas Tech at Baylor — Big 12 Network (Brad Sham/Stephen Howard)
West Virginia at TCU — Big 12 Network (Mitch Holthus/Dan Hughes)
Memphis at Southern Mississippi — CBS Sports Network (Dave Ryan/Pete Gillen)
Northeastern at Old Dominion — Comcast SportsNet (Houston/Mid-Atlantic/New England)/CSS/The Comcast Network
Kansas at Oklahoma — ESPN (Jon Sciambi/Fran Fraschilla/Holly Rowe)
Valparaiso at Cleveland State — ESPN2 (Mike Crispino/Darrin Horn)
Auburn at Kentucky — SEC Network (Dave Baker/Kara Lawson)
Pepperdine at Portland — WCC Network (Barry Tompkins/Dan Belluomini)

4:30 p.m.
Northwestern at Iowa — Big Ten Network (Justin Kutcher/Shon Morris)

5 p.m.
Texas A&M at Georgia — ESPNU (Tom Hart/Matt Doherty)
Mississippi State at Florida — Fox Sports Net-regional (Arizona/Detroit Plus/Midwest/North Plus/Prime Ticket/San Diego/South/Southwest/Wisconsin/Sun Sports) (Dave Neal/Larry Conley)
South Dakota State at Oakland — Fox Sports Detroit/Fox Sports North/Fox College Sports Atlantic (John Keating/Mateen Cleaves)

6 p.m.
Fresno State at San Jose State — CBS Sports Network (Andrew Catalon/Andrew Lappas/Lauren Gardner)
Pittsburgh at Cincinnati — ESPN (Mike Patrick/Len Elmore)
Iowa State at Kansas State — ESPN2 (Mark Neely/Chris Piper)

Women’s: Cincinnati at Rutgers — Big East Network (Bob Picozzi/Steffi Sorenson)

7 p.m.
Xavier at Duquense — A-10 Network (Bob McElligott/Tony White)
Michigan State at Purdue — Big Ten Network (Eric Collins/Jim Jackson)
St. Bonaventure at URI — Cox Sports RI (Mike Mancuso/Chris DiSano)
Stanford at Arizona State — ESPNU (Dave Flemming/Sean Farnham)

7:30 p.m.
Missouri State at Wichita State — Comcast SportsNet Chicago/Fox Sports Midwest/Fox College Sports Central (Scott Warmann/Rich Zvosec)

8 p.m.
LSU at Alabama — ESPN2 (Mark Jones/Jimmy Dykes)
Utah at Oregon — Pac-12 Network (Jim Watson/Ernie Kent)

Women’s: San Diego State at Fresno State — CBS Sports Network (Rich Cellini/Tammy Blackburn)
Women’s: Baylor at Texas — Longhorn Network (Fran Harris/Debbie Antonelli/Kaylee Hartung)

9 p.m.
San Francisco at BYU — BYU TV (Dave McCann/Steve Cleveland/Robbie Bullough)
Louisville at Notre Dame — ESPN (Dan Shulman/Dick Vitale/Samantha Ponder)Penn State at Nebraska — ESPNU (Dan Gutowsky/Sean Harrington)
Seattle at New Mexico State — Fox College Sports Pacific (Jeff Matthews/Glenn Cerny)
New Mexico at UNLV — NBC Sports Network (Paul Burmeister/Stan Van Gundy)

10 p.m.
Illinois State at Creighton — ESPN2 (Rich Hollenberg/Mark Adams)
Washington State at UCLA — Pac-12 Network (Ted Robinson/Don MacLean)

11 p.m.
St. Mary’s at San Diego — ESPNU (Roxy Bernstein/Corey Williams)
Cal State-Fullerton at Cal-Riverside — Fox Sports Prime Ticket/Fox Sports San Diego/Fox College Sports Pacific (Just Alderson/Michael Cage/Kelli Tennant)

Sunday, February 10

11:30 a.m.
Women’s: North Carolina at Georgia Tech — ESPNU (Michele Smith/LaChina Robinson)

noon
UConn at Seton Hall — Big East Network (Eamon McAnaney/Bob Wenzel)

Women’s: Michigan at Purdue — Big Ten Network (Eric Collins/Stephanie White)

1 p.m.
North Carolina State at Clemson — ACC Network (Steve Martin/Mike Gminski)
Virginia at Maryland — ACC Network (Tim Brant/Dan Bonner)
Indiana at Ohio State — CBS (Kevin Harlan/Clark Kellogg)
Tennessee at South Carolina — Fox Sports Net-regional (Arizona Plus/Detroit/Midwest/North Plus/Prime Ticket/San Diego/South/Southwest/Sun Sports) (Dave Baker/Daymeon Fishback)

Women’s: Houston at Rice — Fox Sports Net-national/Fox College Sports Central (Bob Rathbun/Debbie Antonelli)

1:30 p.m.
Women’s: Georgia at LSU — ESPNU (Melissa Lee/Maria Taylor)

2 p.m.
Women’s: Minnesota at Illinois — Big Ten Network (Mike Wolf/Patricia Babcock-McGraw/Kara Lentz)
Women’s: Holy Cross at Lehigh — CBS Sports Network (Bob Socci/Amy Lawrence)
Women’s: Butler at George Washington — Comcast SportsNet (Mid-Atlantic)
Women’s: Florida State at Miami (FL) — CSS (Jason Solodkin/Robin Mueller)
Women’s: Michigan State at Penn State — ESPN2 (Adam Amin/Swin Cash)
Women’s: Mississippi State at Missouri — SEC Network (Cara Capuano/Nell Fortner)

3 p.m.
St. John’s at Syracuse — ESPN (Dave Pasch/Dan Dakich)

Women’s: Tulane at Tulsa — Fox Sports Net-national (Bob Licht/DanHughes)
Women’s: Oregon State at Utah — Pac-12 Network (Anne Marie Anderson/Tammy Blackburn)

3:30 p.m.
Women’s: DePaul at UConn — ESPNU (Bob Picozzi/Brooke Weisbrod)

4 p.m.
Women’s: Ohio State at Northwestern — Big Ten Network (DanKelley/Shelley Till)
Women’s: Kentucky at Vanderbilt — ESPN2 (Pam Ward/Rosalyn Gold-Onwude)

4:30 p.m.
Women’s: Old Dominion at Drexel — Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic (Al Koken/Jody Lavin Patrick)

5 p.m.
Women’s: Oklahoma State at Oklahoma — Fox Sports Net-national (Ron Thulin/Brenda VanLengen)
Women’s: Arizona State at Stanford — Pac-12 Network (Krista Blunk/Mary Murphy)

6 p.m.
Illinois at Minnesota — Big Ten Network (Kevin Kugler/Eddie Johnson)
Duke at Boston College — ESPNU (Carter Blackburn/Jay Williams/Allison Williams)

7 p.m.
James Madison at Drexel — Comcast SportsNet (California/Mid-Atlantic/Philadelphia)/CSS
Cal at Arizona — Pac-12 Network (Ted Robinson/Matt Muehlebach)

8 p.m.
Drake at Evansville — ESPNU (Mitch Holthus/Mark Adams)
Washington at USC — Fox Sports Net-national (Steve Physioc/Corey Williams)

10 p.m.
Colorado at Oregon — Pac-12 Network (JB Long/Lamar Hurd)

College Basketball Viewing Picks For 02/02 & 02/03/2013, All Times Eastern

Men’s Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports

Announcing Assignments courtesy of Eye on Sky and Air Sports

Saturday, February 2

Pregame & Studio Shows
College GameDay live from Bloomington, IN — ESPNU, 10 a.m./ESPN, 11 a.m.
Big Ten Tip-Off Show — Big Ten Network, 6:30 p.m.
College GameDay live from Bloomington, IN — ESPN, 8 p.m.
College Basketball Live — ESPN2, midnight

11 a.m.
Cincinnati at Seton Hall — ESPNU (Beth Mowins/Tim Welsh/Paul Calcaterra)

noon
Clemson at Boston College — ACC Network (Tim Brando/Cory Alexander)
Virginia Tech at North Carolina — ACC Network (Tim Brandt/Dan Bonner)
Hofstra at William & Mary — Comcast SportsNet (California/Mid-Atlantic/New England/Philadelphia)/CSS/MSG Network (John Castleberry/Charlie Woolum)
Syracuse at Pittsburgh — ESPN (Mike Patrick/Len Elmore)
Purdue at Northwestern — ESPN2 (Bob Wischusen/Dan Dakich)

Women’s: Hartford at Boston University — NESN (Bill Schweizer/Billy Mecca/Jayme Parker)

12:30 p.m.
Women’s: Texas at TCU — Fox Sports Net-national (Bob Licht/Brenda VanLengen)

1 p.m.
Austin Peay at Murray State — ESPNU (Adam Amin/Brooke Weisbrod)

1:30 p.m.
West Virginia at Texas Tech — Big 12 Network (Mitch Holthus/Reid Gettys)
Auburn at Missouri — SEC Network (Dave Baker/Jon Sunvold)
Georgia at South Carolina — SEC Network (Dave Lamont/Kyle Macy)

2 p.m.
Tulsa at Memphis — CBS Sports Network (Dave Ryan/Pete Gillen/Gary Parrish)
Duke at Florida State — ESPN (Dave O’Brien/Doris Burke/Jeannine Edwards)
Notre Dame at DePaul — ESPN2 (John Saunders/LaPhonso Ellis)
Wake Forest at Maryland — Fox Sports Net-regional (Arizona Plus/Carolinas/Prime Ticket/San Diego/South/Tennessee/Sun Sports/Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic/NESN) (Rich Waltz/Mike Gminski)
Dayton at Saint Louis — NBC Sports Network (Dave Strader/Mike Kaplan)

Women’s: UConn at St. John’s — Big East Network (Bob Picozzi/LaChina Robinson)

2:30 p.m.
Colorado at Utah — Fox Sports Net-national (Steve Physioc/Corey Williams)

3 p.m.
Robert Morris at Long Island — ESPNU (Mike Corey/Bob Valvano)
Western Illinois at IUPUI — Fox College Sports Atlantic (Greg Rakestraw/Bob Lovell)

4 p.m.
Duquense at St. Bonaventure — A-10 Network (Kevin Sylvester/Brendan McDaniels)
Oklahoma State at Kansas — Big 12 Network (Dave Armstrong/Chris Piper)
Miami (FL) at North Carolina State — CBS (Spero Dedes/Bill Raftery)
St. John’s at Georgetown — CBS (Ian Eagle/Clark Kellogg)
URI at Butler — CBS Sports Network (Brad Johansen/John Griffin/Jon Rothstein)
George Mason at James Madison — Comcast SportsNet (Bay Area/Houston/Mid-Atlantic/Northwest/Philadelphia) (Al Koken/Junior Burrough)
Tennessee at Arkansas — ESPN (Brent Musburger/Bob Knight)
Wichita State at Northern Iowa — ESPN2 (Rich Hollenberg/Mark Adams)
Alabama at Vanderbilt — SEC Network (Clay Matvick/Joe Dean)

4:30 p.m.
Oregon at Cal — Fox Sports Net-national (Justin Kutcher/Marques Johnson/Laura McKeeman)

5 p.m.
Ohio at Akron — ESPNU (Dan Gutkowsky/Malcolm Huckaby)
Missouri-Kansas City at South Dakota State — Fox College Sports Atlantic (Tom Niemann/Brad Newitt)

5:30 p.m.
LSU at Mississippi State — Fox Sports Net-regional (Florida/Midwest Plus/North Plus/South/Southwest) (Dave Neal/Larry Conley)

6 p.m.
Temple at St. Joseph’s — CBS Sports Network (Tom McCarthy/Steve Lappas/Jeff Goodman)
Drexel at Northeastern — Comcast SportsNet (Bay Area/Mid-Atlantic/New England/Northwest)/CSS/The Comcast Network (Gary Tanguay/Jack Armstrong)
Kentucky at Texas A&M — ESPN (Mark Jones/Jimmy Dykes)
Kansas State at Oklahoma — ESPN2 (Jon Sciambi/Fran Fraschilla)
Columbia at Princeton — NBC Sports Network (Randy Moss/Dalen Cuff)

7 p.m.
Ohio State at Nebraska — Big Ten Network
Mississippi at Florida — ESPNU (Tom Hart/Matt Doherty)

7:30 p.m.
Indiana State at Drake — Comcast SportsNet Chicago/Fox Sports Midwest (Scott Warmann/Kevin Lehman)

8 p.m.
Southern Mississippi at UAB — CSS/Comcast SportsNet (Houston/Northwest)/The Comcast Network (Matt Stewart/Brian Oliver)
Baylor at Iowa State — ESPN2 (Mark Neely/Rich Zvosec)
TCU at Texas — Longhorn Network (Kevin Dunn/Bruce Bowen)
Nevada at New Mexico — NBC Sports Network (Steve Schlanger/Blaine Fowler)

Women’s: Baylor at Oklahoma State — Fox Sports Southwest Plus/Fox Sports Detroit Plus/Fox Sports North (Mike Wolfe/Casey Kendrick)

8:30 p.m.
Southeastern Louisiana at Oral Roberts — Fox College Sports Atlantic (David Garrett/Mickey Michaelec)

9 p.m.
Santa Clara at BYU — BYU TV (Dave McCann/Steve Cleveland/Robbie Bullough)
Michigan at Indiana — ESPN/ESPN 3D (Dan Shulman/Dick Vitale/Shannon Spake)
Arizona State at Washington — ESPNU (Dave Flemming/Sean Farnham)

10 p.m.
Arizona at Washington State — Pac-12 Network (Kevin Calabro/Brevin Knight)

11 p.m.
Gonzaga at San Diego — ESPNU (Roxy Bernstein/Paul Biancardi/Paul Carcaterra)

Sunday, February 3

11 a.m.
Women’s: Dayton at Richmond — ESPNU (Melissa Lee/Christy Winters Scott)

noon
Providence at Villanova — Big East Network (Anish Shroff/Bob Wenzel)

1 p.m.
Iowa at Minnesota — Big Ten Network (Brian Anderson/Eddie Johnson)

Women’s: Duke at North Carolina — ESPNU (Ray Philpott/LaChina Robinson)
Women’s: Oklahoma at West Virginia — Fox Sports Net-national (Ron Thulin/Brenda VanLengen)
Women’s: Georgia Tech at Virginia — Fox Sports Net-regional (Arizona Plus/Carolinas/North Plus/San Diego/South/Tennessee/Sun Sports/Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic/NESN) (Mike Hogewood/Debbie Antonelli)
Women’s: Alabama at Florida — Fox Sports Florida Plus (Mick Hubert/Mark Wise)
Women’s: Washington at Arizona State — Pac-12 Network (Krista Blunk/Mary Murphy)

2 p.m.
South Florida at UConn — Big East Network (Eamon McAnaney/Ron Perry)
Marquette at Louisville — ESPN (Dan Shulman/Jay Bilas)

Women’s: Tennessee at Missouri — CSS  (Bernie Guenther/Robin Muller)
Women’s: Georgia at Kentucky — SEC Network (Cara Capuano/Nell Fortner)
Women’s: Miami (OH) at Northern Illinois — STO/Comcast SportsNet Chicago (Mike Cairns/Jackie Windon)

3 p.m.
Virginia at Georgia Tech — ESPNU (Carter Blackburn/Jay Williams/Allison Williams)
Oregon State at Stanford — Pac-12 Network (Jim Watson/Don MacLean)

Women’s: UNC-Wilmington at Old Dominion — Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic (Al Koken./Jody Lavin Patrick/Brian Jackson)
Women’s: Arkansas at Mississippi State — Fox Sports Net-national (Dave Neal/Maria Taylor)

3:30 p.m.
Wisconsin at Illinois — Big Ten Network (Eric Collins/Shon Morris)

4 p.m.
Women’s: Stanford at Oregon State — Pac-12 Network (Ann Schatz/Kyndra de St. Aubin)

College Basketball Viewing Picks For 01/26 & 01/27/2013, All Times Eastern

Men’s Schedule Courtesy of Matt’s College Sports

Saturday, January 26

Pregame & Studio Hosts
College GameDay live from Raleigh, NC — ESPNU, 10 a.m./ESPN, 11 a.m.
College GameDay — ESPN, 6 p.m.
College Basketball Live — ESPN2, midnight

11 a.m.
Syracuse at Villanova — ESPNU (Beth Mowins/Tim Walsh)

11:30 a.m.
Women’s: Delta State at Valdosta State — CBS Sports Network

noon
Notre Dame at South Florida — Big East Network (Anish Shroff/Bob Wenzel)
Louisville at Georgetown — ESPN (Mike Patrick/Len Elmore)
Ohio State at Penn State — ESPN2 (Bob Wischusen/Dan Dakich)
Farleigh Dickinson at Quinnipiac — Fox College Sports Atlantic

1 p.m.
Maryland at Duke — CBS (Ian Eagle/Clark Kellogg)
West Virginia at Oklahoma State — ESPNU (Brad Sham/Bob Valvano)
Boston College at Virginia — Fox Sports Net-regional (Detroit Plus/Florida/Prime Ticket/San Diego/South/Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic/NESN)
URI at Fordham — YES

1:30 p.m.
Kansas State at Iowa State — Big 12 Network (Mitch Holthus/Chris Piper)
Arkansas at South Carolina — SEC Network (Mike Morgan/Barry Booker)

2 p.m.
Providence at Marquette — Big East Network (Mike Couzens/Sean Kearney)
Minnesota at Wisconsin — Big Ten Network
Rice at Tulane — CSS/Comcast SportsNet (Bay Area/Houston/Northwest/Philadelphia)
Alabama at Tennessee — ESPN2 (Mark Jones/Jimmy Dykes)
Marshall at Memphis — Fox Sports Net-national/Fox College Sports Pacific
Dartmouth at Harvard — NBC Sports Network

3 p.m.
Wake Forest at Georgia Tech — ACC Network
Northwestern at Nebraska — Big Ten Network
North Dakota State at South Dakota State — Fox College Sports Atlantic

4 p.m.
Duquense at Dayton — A-10 Network
Saint Louis at St. Bonaventure — A-10 Network
DePaul at Pittsburgh — Big East Network (John Sanders/John Celestand)
Baylor at TCU — Big 12 Network (Dave Armstrong/Stephen Howard)
Bucknell at Holy Cross — CBS Sports Network (Bob Socci/Chris Spatola)
Old Dominion at James Madison — Comcast SportsNet (Mid-Atlantic/Northwest/Philadephia)/CSS
Oklahoma at Kansas — ESPN (Jon Sciambi/Fran Fraschilla)
Western Kentucky at Middle Tennessee — ESPN2 (Rich Hollenberg/Mark Adams)
UCLA at Arizona State — Fox Sports Net-national
New Mexico at San Diego State — NBC Sports Network
LSU at Kentucky — SEC Network (Clay Matvick/Joe Dean)

5 p.m.
Vanderbilt at Missouri — ESPNU (Tom Hart/Matt Doherty)
Western Illinois at Oakland — Fox Sports Detroit/Fox College Sports Atlantic
Washington State at Oregon State — Pac-12 Network (J.B. Long/Lamar Hurd)

6 p.m.
Xavier at St. Joseph’s — CBS Sports Network (Dave Ryan/Pete Gillen)
Temple at Butler — ESPN2 (Jim Barbar/Stephen Bardo)
Georgia at Texas A&M — Fox Sports Net-regional (Arizona Plus/Detroit Plus/South/Southwest/West/Wisconsin/Sun Sports)

7 p.m.
North Carolina at North Carolina State — ESPN/ESPN 3D (Dan Shulman/Dick Vitale/Shannon Spake)
USC at Arizona — ESPNU (Dave Flemming/Sean Farnham)
Washington at Oregon — Pac-12 Network (Ted Robinson/Ernie Kent)

8 p.m.
LaSalle at Virginia Commonwealth — CBS Sports Network (Brad Johansen/Steve Wolf)
Florida at Mississippi State — ESPN2 (Dave Lamont/Kara Lawson)
Mississippi at Auburn — Fox Sports Net-regional (Detroit/South/Southwest Plus/West/Sun Sports)

8:30 p.m.
McNeese State at Oral Roberts — Fox College Sports Pacific

10:30 p.m.
BYU at Portland — ESPN2 (Roxy Bernstein/Steve Cleveland)

Sunday, January 27

noon
Seton Hall at St. John’s — Big East Network (Eamon McAnaney/Jim Spanarkel)
Lafayette at Lehigh — CBS Sports Network (Bob Socci/Chris Spatola)

1 p.m.
Virginia Tech at Clemson — ACC Network
Michigan State at Indiana — CBS (Kevin Harlan/Greg Anthony)

Women’s: Penn State at Ohio State — Big Ten Network
Women’s: Florida at Georgia — CSS
Women’s: TCU at Texas Tech — Fox Sports Net-national
Women’s: Boston College at Duke — Fox Sports Net-regional (Arizona Plus/Carolina/Detroit Plus/Florida/Prime Ticket/San Diego/South/Tennessee/Sun Sports/Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic/NESN)

1:30 p.m.
Women’s: St. John’s at Louisville — ESPNU

2 p.m.
Rutgers at UConn — Big East Network (Kevin Connors/Tim Welsh)

Women’s: Xavier at Richmond — CBS Sports Network (John Sadak/Julianne Viani)
Women’s: North Carolina at Miami — ESPN2
Women’s: Vanderbilt at Alabama — SEC Network

3 p.m.
Women’s: LSU at Kentucky — CSS/Fox Sports Arizona Plus/Fox Sports Detroit Plus/Fox Sports Florida/Fox Sports Prime Ticket/SportSouth

3:30 p.m.
Iowa at Purdue — Big Ten Network
Cal at Colorado — Fox Sports Net-national

Women’s: Missouri at Texas A&M — ESPNU

4 p.m.
Women’s: Fresno State at Colorado State — CBS Sports Network (Rich Cellini/Tammy Blackburn)
Women’s: Purdue at Michigan State — ESPN2

5 p.m.
Women’s: Oregon at Washington — Pac-12 Network (Anne-Marie Anderson/Ros Gold-Unwude)

6 p.m.
Michigan at Illinois — Big Ten Network
Florida State at Miami (FL) — ESPNU (Carter Blackburn/Jay Williams/Allison Williams)

7 p.m.
Women’s: Colorado at Stanford — Pac-12 Network (Krista Blunk/Mary Murphy)

8 p.m.
George Mason at Northeastern — Comcast SportsNet (Mid-Atlantic/New England/Philadelphia)/CSS
Creighton at Southern Illinois — ESPNU (Mitch Holthus/Mark Adams)

9 p.m.
Stanford at Utah — Pac-12 Network (Ted Robinson/Ernie Kent)

College Basketball Viewing Picks For 01/19 & 01/20/2013, All Times Eastern

Men’s Schedule Courtesy of Matt’s College Sports

Saturday, January 19

Pregame & Studio Shows
College GameDay live from Indianapolis — ESPNU, 10 a.m./ESPN, 11 p.m.
College GameDay live from Indianapolis — ESPN, 8 p.m.

11 a.m.
Virginia Military Institute at Coastal Carolina — ESPNU (Adam Amin/Brooke Weisbrod)

noon
St. John’s at DePaul — Big East Network (Anish Shroff/Bob Wenzel)
Maryland at North Carolina — ESPN (Dave O’Brien/Doris Burke)
UConn at Pittsburgh — ESPN2 (John Saunders/Dereck Whittenburg)

12:30 p.m.
Harvard at Memphis — Fox Sports Net (national)/Fox College Sports Atlantic

1 p.m.
St. Bonaventure at Temple — CBS Sports Network
Nebraska at Penn State — ESPNU (Mike Crispino/Bob Valvano)

1:30 p.m.
Iowa State at TCU — Big 12 Network (Mitch Holthus/Reid Gettys)
Arkansas at Mississippi — SEC Network (Dave Baker/Barry Booker)
Vanderbilt at South Carolina — SEC Network (Dave Lamont/Kara Lawson)

2 p.m.
Wake Forest at Virginia Tech — ACC NetworkLaSalle at Xavier — A-10 Network
Kansas at Texas — CBS (Kevin Harlan/Clark Kellogg)
West Virginia at Purdue — CBS (Ian Eagle/Bill Raftery)
Drexel at William & Mary — Comcast SportsNet (Bay Area/Mid-Atlantic/Northwest)/The Comcast Network/CSS
Missouri at Florida — ESPN (Mark Jones/Jimmy Dykes)
Texas Tech at Oklahoma State — ESPN2 (Jon Sciambi/Fran Fraschilla)

Women’s: Seton Hall at Georgetown — Big East Network
Women’s: Boston University at New Hampshire — Fox College Sports Pacific

2:30 p.m.
Arizona at Arizona State — Fox Sports Net (national)
Eastern Kentucky at Jacksonville State — Fox Sports South

3 p.m.
Akron at Kent State — ESPNU (Dan Gutowsky/Darrin Horn)
Columbia at Cornell — NBC Sports Network (Randy Moss/Dalen Cuff)

Women’s: Texas at Oklahoma — Fox Sports Oklahoma

4 p.m.
Florida State at Virginia — ACC Network
Villanova at Providence — Big East Network (Don Orsillo/Ron Perry)
Oklahoma at Kansas State — Big 12 Network (Dave Armstrong/Rich Zvosec)
Oregon at UCLA — CBS (Spero Dedes/Doug Gottlieb)
SMU at UTEP — CSS/Comcast SportsNet (Bay Area/Houston/Mid-Atlantic/Northwest/Philadelphia)
Syracuse at Louisville — ESPN (Mike Patrick/Len Elmore)
Creighton at Wichita State — ESPN2 (Rich Hollenberg/Mark Adams)
Boston University at New Hampshire — Fox College Sports Pacific
Mississippi State at Tennessee — SEC Network (Clay Matvick/Joe Dean)

Women’s: Syracuse at UConn — SNY

4:30 p.m.
Cal at Stanford — Fox Sports Net (national)

5 p.m.
Penn at St. Joseph’s — ESPNU (Scott Graham/Carolyn Peck)
Hofstra at George Mason — NBC Sports Network (Mike Corey/Ron Thompson)

6 p.m.
Georgetown at South Florida — Big East Network (Jason Benetti/Mark Wise)
UAB at Southern Mississippi — CSS/Comcast SportsNet (Bay Area Plus/Houston/Northwest)
Ohio State at Michigan State — ESPN (Bob Wischusen/Dan Dakich)
Texas A&M at Alabama — Fox Sports Net-regional (Arizona Plus/Florida/North Plus/South/Southwest/Sun Sports)

7 p.m.
Marquette at Cincinnati — ESPNU (Beth Mowins/Tim Welsh)
UNLV at Colorado State — NBC Sports Network (Steve Schlanger/Blaine Fowler)

8 p.m.
Rutgers at Notre Dame — Big East Network (Lou Canellis/Sean Kearney)
Wisconsin at Iowa — Big Ten Network
LSU at Georgia — CSS/Bright House Sports/Comcast SportsNet (Houston/Northwest)/Cox Sports Television (Matt Stewart/Daymeon Fishback)
Oregon State at USC — Pac-12 Network

9 p.m.
San Diego at BYU — BYU TV
Gonzaga at Butler — ESPN/ESPN 3D (Dan Shulman/Dick Vitale/Shannon Spake)
Kentucky at Auburn — ESPNU (Tom Hart/Matt Doherty)

11 p.m.
Utah at Washington — ESPNU (Dave Flemming/Sean Farnham)
Colorado at Washington State — Pac-12 Network

Sunday, January 20

noon
Navy at Army — CBS Sports Network

Women’s: St. John’s at Notre Dame — ESPNU

1 p.m.
Indiana at Northwestern — Big Ten Network

Women’s: Iowa State at Oklahoma State — Fox Sports Net-national
Women’s: Wake Forest at Boston College — Fox Sports Net-regional (Arizona Plus/Detroit Plus/South/Sun Sports/Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic/NESN)
Women’s: South Carolina at Florida — Fox Sports Florida

2 p.m.
Women’s: Butler at LaSalle — CBS Sports Network
Women’s: Maryland at Georgia Tech — ESPN2
Women’s: Auburn at Kentucky — SEC Network

3 p.m.
Women’s: UAB at UTEP — Fox Sports Net-national
Women’s: Florida State at North Carolina State — Fox Sports Net-regional (Arizona Plus/Detroit Plus/South/Sun Sports/Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic/NESN)

3:30 p.m.
Women’s: UCLA at Cal — ESPNU

4 p.m.
Women’s: Purdue at Iowa — Big Ten Network
Women’s: Colorado State at UNLV — CBS Sports Network

5 p.m.
Women’s: Texas A&M at Georgia — ESPN2, 5 p.m.

6 p.m.
Clemson at North Carolina State — ESPNU (Carter Blackburn/Jay Williams/Allison Williams)

Women’s: Nebraska at Minnesota — Big Ten Network

8 p.m.
Illinois State at Southern Illinois — ESPNU (Mitch Holthus/Mark Adams)

College Basketball Viewing Picks For 01/12 & 01/13/2013, All Times Eastern

Men’s schedule courtesy Matt’s College Sports

Saturday, January 12

Pregame & Studio Shows
College GameDay — ESPN2, 10 a.m.
College GameDay — ESPNU, 11 a.m.
Big Ten Tip-Off Show — Big Ten Network, 11:30 a.m.
Big Ten Game Break — Big Ten Network, 2 p.m.
The Fab Five — ESPN, 5:30 p.m.
Big Ten Finale ’12-’13 — Big Ten Network, 7 p.m.
Inside College Basketball — CBS Sports Network, 9 p.m.
College Basketball Live — ESPN2, 1:30 a.m. (Sunday)

11 a.m.
Georgetown at St. John’s — ESPN2 (Mike Patrick/Len Elmore)

noon
Virginia at Clemson — ACC Network
Villanova at Syracuse — Big East Network (Anish Shroff/Bob Wenzel)
Minnesota at Indiana — Big Ten Network
Anderson at Lincoln Memorial University — CBS Sports Network
Delaware at Georgia State — Comcast SportsNet (Bay Area/Mid-Atlantic/Northwest/Philadelphia)/CSS
Duke at North Carolina State — ESPN (Dan Shulman/Dick Vitale/Jeannine Edwards)
Marquette at Pittsburgh — ESPNU (Beth Mowins/Tim Welsh)

1 p.m.
Tennessee at Alabama — ESPN2 (Mark Jones/Jimmy Dykes)

1:30 p.m.
Kansas State at West Virginia — Big 12 Network (Mark Neely/Stephen Howard)
Auburn at South Carolina — SEC Network (Mike Morgan/Jon Sundvold)
Mississippi State at Georgia — SEC Network (Dave Lamont/Kara Lawson)

2 p.m.
UConn at Notre Dame — Big East Network (Lou Canellis/LaPhonso Ellis)
Holy Cross at Lehigh — CBS Sports Network
Charlotte at URI — Cox Sports RI
George Mason at North Carolina-Wilmington — Comcast SportsNet (California/Mid-Atlantic)/The Comcast Network
North Carolina at Florida State — ESPN (Dave O’Brien/Doris Burke)
Texas at Iowa State — ESPNU (Brad Sham/Bob Valvano)
Butler at Dayton — NBC Sports Network (Dave Strader/Stan Van Gundy)
UCLA at Colorado — Pac-12 Network (JB Long/Ernie Kent)

2:15 p.m.
Illinois at Wisconsin — Big Ten Network

2:30 p.m.
Virginia Tech at Georgia Tech — ACC Network

3 p.m.
Oklahoma State at Oklahoma — ESPN2 (Jon Sciambi/Fran Fraschilla)

4 p.m.
VCU at St. Bonaventure — A10 Network
South Florida at Louisville — Big East Network (Jim Barbar/Darrin Horn)
Kansas at Texas Tech — Big 12 Network (Dave Armstrong/Reid Gettys)
George Washington at Xavier — CBS Sports Network
Florida at LSU — ESPNU (Tom Hart/Matt Doherty)
Boston College at Wake Forest — Fox Sports Net-regional (North Plus/South/West/Sun Sports/Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic/NESN)
Drexel at James Madison — NBC Sports Network (Mike Corey/Ron Thompson)
Washington at Cal — Pac-12 Network (Roxy Bernstein/Dan Belluomini)

Women’s: West Virginia at Kansas State — Fox Sports Net-national
Women’s: UConn at Marquette — SNY, 4 p.m.

5 p.m.
Oakland at North Dakota State — Fox College Sports Central

6 p.m.
Saint Louis at Temple — ESPNU (Adam Amin/Brooke Weisbrod)
Vanderbilt at Arkansas — Fox Sports Net-regional (Midwest/North Plus/South/Southwest/West/Wisconsin)
TCU at Baylor — Fox Sports Southwest/Fox College Sports Central
Penn at Princeton — NBC Sports Network (Randy Moss/Dalen Cuff)
USC at Utah — Pac-12 Network (Kevin Calabro/Joe Cravens)

Women’s: Villanova at Pittsburgh — Big East Network (Bob Picozzi/LaChina Robinson)

8 p.m.
Cincinnati at Rutgers — Big East Network (Quint Kessenich/Jim Spanarkel)
Arizona at Oregon State — ESPNU (Dave Flemming/Sean Farnham)
Missouri at Mississippi — Fox Sports Net-regional (Florida/Midwest/South/Southwest)
Colorado State at San Diego State — NBC Sports Network (Steve Schlanger/Blaine Fowler)

Women’s: Texas Tech at Oklahoma — Fox Sports Oklahoma

8:30 p.m.
Women’s: Idaho at New Mexico State — Altitude 2
Women’s: Portland State at Northern Arizona — Fox Sports Arizona Plus

8:30 p.m.
Memphis at UAB — CSS/Comcast SportsNet (Bay Area/Chicago/Houston/Northwest)Stephen F. Austin at Oral Roberts — Fox College Sports Atlantic

11 p.m.
Washington at Stanford — Fox Sports Net-national/Fox College Sports Pacific

Sunday, January 13

11:30 a.m.
Women’s: Tennessee at Florida — ESPNU (Cara Capuano/Nell Fortner)

noon
Providence at Seton Hall — Big East Network (Quint Kessenich/John Celestand)
Penn State at Purdue — Big Ten Network

Women’s: Lafayette at Navy — CBS Sports Network

12:30 p.m.
Women’s: Oklahoma State at Texas — Fox Sports Net-national

1 p.m.
UMass at Fordham — YES

Women’s: Boston College at Clemson — Fox Sports Net-regional (Arizona Plus/Detroit Plus/Florida/North Plus/South/Prime Ticket/Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic/NESN)

1:30 p.m.
Michigan at Ohio State — CBS (Tim Brando/Clark Kellogg)

Women’s: Kentucky at Missouri — ESPNU (Melissa Lee/Maria Taylor)

2 p.m.
Women’s: Wisconsin at Michigan — Big Ten Network
Women’s: Fordham at Charlotte — CBS Sports Network
Women’s: Nebraska at Penn State — ESPN2 (Beth Mowins/LaChina Robinson)

2:30 p.m.
Women’s: Baylor at Kansas — Fox Sports Net-national
Women’s: Alabama at Mississippi — Fox Sports Net-regional (SportSouth/Sun Sports

3 p.m.
Women’s: Miami at Florida State — Fox Sports Net-regional (Detroit Plus/Florida/North Plus/South/Prime Ticket/Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic/NESN)
Women’s: Oregon State at Arizona State — Pac-12 Network (Anne Marie Anderson/Kyndra de St. Aubin)

3:30 p.m.
Women’s: Rutgers at Notre Dame — ESPNU (Jim Barbar/Krista Blunk)

4 p.m.
Women’s: Michigan State at Illinois — Big Ten Network
Women’s: San Diego State at Colorado State — CBS Sports Network
Women’s: Cal at Stanford — ESPN2 (Pam Ward/Mary Murphy)

4:30 p.m.
Women’s: Southern Mississippi at Memphis — Fox Sports Net-national

5 p.m.
Women’s: Colorado at Utah — Pac-12 Network (Ann Schatz/Rosalyn Gold-Onwude)

5:30 p.m.
Iowa at Northwestern — ESPNU (Dan Gutowaski/Tim McCormick)

6 p.m.
Nebraska at Michigan State — Big Ten Network

8 p.m.
Maryland at Miami (FL) — ESPNU (Carter Blackburn/Jay Williams/Allison Williams)

9 p.m.
Arizona at Oregon — Pac-12 Network (Paul Sunderland/Ernie Kent)

Some Tuesday Morning Sports Media Thoughts

I’m on the train heading from Kingston, RI to New York City. I’ll be at a sports media event at the world-famous CBS Broadcast Center. If you follow me on Twitter or on my Facebook page, I’ll be live tweeting if possible from the event.

In the meantime, Amtrak’s wifi service is as fast as dial-up so if I try to do linkage, it’ll take me longer than the entire trip from Kingston to NYC to complete, so in lieu of links, I’ll provide a long overdue thoughts post. If you’ve been a regular visitor to the site, then you’ll know they come in bullet form. Let’s get cracking.

• The game was a blowout and was virtually over by the coin toss, but that didn’t stop ESPN from giving it all during Monday night’s BCS National Championship Game. While Alabama thoroughly dominated Notre Dame in all facets, Brent Musburger and Kirk Herbstreit were honest and forthright throughout. They didn’t try to use hyperbole to keep viewers by hoping for a comeback. When the Crimson Tide scored its fourth touchdown in the first half to go up, 28-0, Musburger declared the game over. And in a halftime interview with Heather Cox, Fighting Irish coach Brian Kelly answered honestly, “Maybe Alabama doesn’t come back in the second half. It’s all Alabama.”

  ESPN’s pictures were stellar. Replays were clear and when a potential challenge wasn’t made, the network quickly brought in a rules analyst who explained why a review wasn’t necessary.

  Yes, Brent Musburger creeped people out with his gushing over Miss Alabama Katherine Webb who’s also Crimson Tide quarterback A.J. McCarron’s girlfriend was over the top. And the four cutaways (by my count) helped to increase her Twitter following to over 100 thousand. That’s the power of being seen on a high profile game. But as people were raking Musburger as a creepy old man, former ABC, CBS and CNN anchor Kathleen Sullivan quickly came to his defense.

  I’ve known Brent Musburger since working with him in ’76. He hasn’t oogled a woman since Jayne Kennedy.

  — kathleen sullivan (@kathleennewsie) January 8, 2013

  This isn’t the first time we’ve seen Brent drool over a woman in the crowd. Lest we forget Brent going gaga over Jenn Sterger at a Florida State game in 2009.

  Well, as we move from Brent’s oogling to the ESPN production, overall it went as well as it could considering the circumstances. Before the game, there were predictions that the game could set a cable viewership record had the game been close, but with Alabama establishing its authority early and often, that seems to be out the window. Although ESPN is saying the overnight numbers are way up over year.

  I’ll give ESPN a B for its efforts. The game was a D, but that’s not ESPN’s fault.

• A story surfaced (subscription required) in yesterday’s Sports Business Journal that Fox Sports 1 (when it finally begins operation) can tap the Fox local regional sports networks to fill its MLB schedule. Fox Sports 1 will air 40 MLB games beginning in 2014 with the Fox mothership airing just 12 games. John Ourand of SBJ reports that 26 of those games will be from the local Fox Sports Net affiliates which have rights to MLB teams. Like the old days when FX had the rights to Saturday night games in the aughts, Fox Sports 1 will pick up games from one of the Fox Sports Net affilates. The key is rather than be blacked out in the local markets as was the case with FX, the local RSN will be blacked out and fans will have to watch the locally RSN-produced game on Fox Sports 1. So if Fox Sports 1 airs a Yankees-Angels game, YES and Fox Sports West in the home markets would be blacked out and fans would have to find FS1 to see it. How the financials will be worked out to compensate the RSN’s for loss of local revenue has yet to be worked out. And with the late-2012 purchases of YES and Sports Time Ohio, this new provision would affect them as well.In addition, Fox/FS1 will be able to air as many as 18 New York Yankees games a season thanks to its purchase of 49% of the YES Network. This will be the case for all of the teams to which Fox has the rights. However, for a non-Fox team like the New York Mets, Boston Red Sox and Philadelphia Phillies, Fox will only have rights to 8 games. Of those 26 locally FSN games, a team can be seen as many as 10 times. For the nationally produced Fox/Fox Sports 1 games, a team can appear no more than 8 times so you get the picture of the 18 Yankees games.

  It’s an amazing story and one that is going to confuse fans at the beginning when the new MLB contracts begin in 2014.

• Last week, this site began hearing word that the usual NFL on Fox “B” team of Kenny Albert, Daryl Johnston and Tony Siragusa would not be working one of the NFL Divisional Playoff games this weekend and would be replaced by Thom Brennaman, Brian Billick and Laura Okmin. Fox confirmed the move to Newsday’s Neil Best last week. Why did Fox make the move? A Fox spokesman told Neil that the network wanted to give a new team an opportunity to call the playoff game. But was there another reason? Is there smoke here?We eventually learned that Brennman, Billick and Okmin would work the Seattle-Atlanta game on Sunday.
  Sports Rantz speculates there could be a reason behind the move, but there could be another as well as in an issue of Sports Illustrated, Richard Deitsch listed Albert, Moose and Goose among his three worst NFL announcing teams this season.

  Whatever the reason for the move, all we know is that we won’t have that trio this weekend on any of Fox’s games.

  While I like Kenny Albert and Daryl Johnston, I can do without Tony Siragusa, although Goose is good on DIY Network’s Man Caves.

That’s going to finish things for us for now. I’ll see if I can post some press releases on my way back from New York.

College Basketball Viewing Picks For 01/05 & 01/06/2013, All Times Eastern

Men’s Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports

Saturday, January 5

11 a.m.
Pittsburgh at Rutgers — ESPN2

noon
Virginia Tech at Maryland — ACC Network
Seton Hall at Notre Dame — Big East Network
Purdue at Michigan State — Big Ten Network
Delaware at Old Dominion — Comcast SportsNet (Bay Area/Mid Atlantic/Philadelphia)/CSS
Wake Forest at Duke — ESPNU

12:30 p.m.
Women’s: Northwest Missouri State at Pittsburg State

1:30 p.m.
Oklahoma State at Kansas State — Big 12 Network
South Carolina State at South Carolina — Fox Sports Net-regional (Arizona/Detroit Plus/Midwest Plus/San Diego/South/Southwest/Sun Sports)

Women’s: Oklahoma at Texas — Fox Sports Net-national

2 p.m.Georgetown at Marquette — Big East Network
George Mason at William & Mary — Comcast SportsNet (Bay Area/Mid Atlantic/Philadelphia)/CSS
Texas at Baylor — ESPNU

Women’s: Purdue at Nebraska — CBS

2:15 p.m.
Ohio State at Illinois — Big Ten Network

2:30 p.m.
Miami (FL) at Georgia Tech — ACC Network

3 p.m.
Northwest Missouri State at Pittsburg State — CBS Sports Network
Stanford at UCLA — Pac-12 Network

4 p.m.
Oklahoma at West Virginia — Big 12 Network
Oakland at Alabama — CSS/Comcast SportsNet (Bay Area/Chicago/Houston/Northwest/Philadelphia)/Cox Sports Television
North Carolina at Boston College — ESPN2
St. John’s at Cincinnati — ESPNU
Florida State at Clemson — Fox Sports Net-regional (Arizona Plus/Detroit Plus/Florida/North Plus/San Diego/South/Prime Ticket/Wisconsin)/Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic/NESN
Bucknell at Missouri — Fox Sports Detroit/Fox Sports Midwest/Sun Sports
Long Island at Quinnipiac — SNY

Women’s: Notre Dame at UConn — CBS

5 p.m.
Southern Utah at Northern Arizona — Fox Sports Arizona/Fox College Sports PacificLehigh at VCU — NBC Sports Network
Utah at Arizona — Pac-12 Network

6 p.m.
Murray State at Southeast Missouri State — ESPNU
Texas Tech at TCU — Fox Sports Southwest/Fox Sports North Plus/Fox College Sports Central

Women’s: Louisville at DePaul — Big East Network

8 p.m.
DePaul at Providence — Big East Network

Women’s: Iowa State at Texas Tech — Fox College Sports Pacific

9 p.m.
Southern Illinois at Evansville — Comcast SportsNet Chicago/Fox Sports Midwest/Fox College Sports Atlantic

9:30 p.m.
Washington at Washington State — ESPNU

10 p.m.
BYU at San Francisco — BYU TV/Comcast SportsNet California Plus

11 p.m.
Cal at USC — Fox Sports Net-national

Sunday, January 6

11:30 a.m.
Women’s: St. John’s at Rutgers — ESPNU

noon
Syracuse at South Florida — Big East Network
Iowa at Michigan — Big Ten Network

1 p.m.
Women’s: Virginia at Miami — Fox Sports Net-regional (Arizona/Detroit Plus/North/South/Sun Sports/Wisconsin/Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic/NESN)
Women’s: Georgia at Tennessee — Fox Sports Net-regional (Arizona Plus/Detroit/Florida/North Plus/Prime Ticket/San Diego/Southwest/SportSouth)

1:30 p.m.
Women’s: Florida State at Maryland — ESPNU

2 p.m.
Women’s: LSU at Florida — SEC Network

2:15 p.m.
Women’s: Penn State at Michigan State — Big Ten Network

3 p.m.
Women’s: Texas A&M at Arkansas — Fox Sports Net-regional (Arizona/Detroit/North Plus/Prime Ticket/San Diego/Southwest/SportSouth/Sun Sports)

3:30 p.m.
Women’s: Vanderbilt at Mississippi — ESPNU

4:30 p.m.
Wisconsin at Nebraska — Big Ten Network
Temple at Kansas — CBS

5:30 p.m.
Wichita State at Bradley — ESPNU
Florida at Yale — NBC Sports Network

Women’s: Oklahoma State at Baylor — Fox Sports Net-national

7 p.m.
Northwestern at Minnesota — Big Ten Network

8 p.m.
Tulsa at SMU — Fox Sports Net-national/Fox College Sports Atlantic
Colorado at Arizona State — Pac-12 Network

10 p.m.
Oregon at Oregon State — Fox Sports Net-national/Fox College Sports Pacific

College Basketball Viewing Picks For 12/29 & 12/30/12, All Times Eastern

Men’s schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports

Saturday, December 29

Studio Shows
ACC Basketball Pre Season Tip-Off Show — ACC Network, check your local listings
75 Years of March Madness: Behind the Mic — CBS, 2 p.m.
75 Years of March Madness: A Coach’s Perspective — CBS, 3 p.m.
Big Ten Finale ’12-’13 — Big Ten Network, 9 p.m.

Orange Bowl Classic, Sunrise, FL
Tulsa vs. Florida State — Fox Sports Net (national)/Fox College Sports Atlantic, 2 p.m.
Air Force vs. Florida — Fox Sports Net (national)/Fox College Sports Atlantic, 4:30 p.m.

noon
Santa Clara at Duke — ESPN2
Western Michigan at NC State — ESPNU

Women’s: Temple at Michigan State — Big Ten Network

1 p.m.
Presbyterian at South Carolina — CSS/Comcast Network/Comcast SportsNet (Bay Area/Houston/Mid-Atlantic/New England/Northwest)

2 p.m.
Loyola (Chicago) at DePaul — Big East Network
NC Central at Marquette — Big East Network
UNLV at North Carolina — ESPN2
Virginia Tech vs. BYU at Salt Lake City, UT — ESPNU
Rice at Texas — Longhorn Network
Hartford at Colorado — Pac-12 Network
Coppin State at Arizona State — Pac-12 Network (Arizona)

Women’s: Cal State-Northridege at Oklahoma — Fox Sports Net Oklahoma/Fox Sports Arizona Plus/Fox Sports Prime Ticket

2:15 p.m.
Auburn vs. Illinois at Chicago, IL — Big Ten Network

3 p.m.
Maine at Quinnipiac — NESN

4 p.m.
Kentucky at Louisville — CBS
Florida A&M at Georgia — CSS/Comcast SportsNet (Bay Area/Chicago/Houston/New England/Northwest)
Lafayette at Stanford — Pac-12 Network

Women’s: UConn at Stanford — ESPNU

4:30 p.m.
Chicago State at Ohio State — Big Ten Network

5 p.m.
Army at Texas A&M — Fox Sports Southwest/Fox College Sports Central

6 p.m.
Xavier at Tennessee — ESPNU
Idaho State vs. Washington State at Kennewick, WA — Pac-12 Network

7 p.m.
Alcorn State at Syracuse — Big East Network
George Mason at South Florida — Big East Network
Central Michigan at Michigan — Big Ten Network
Missouri-Kansas City at Kansas State — Fox Sports Midwest/Fox Sports Arizona Plus/Fox Sports West/Fox College Sports Pacific

7:30 p.m.
Washington at UConn — ESPN2

8 p.m.
Butler at Vanderbilt — ESPNU
Denver at Louisiana Tech — ESPN Plus
Ohio at Oklahoma — Fox Sports Southwest/Fox College Sports Central
Towson at Oregon State — Pac-12 Network

10 p.m.
Cal-Santa Barbara at Cal State-Fullerton — ESPNU

10:30 p.m.
Harvard at Cal — Pac-12 Network

Sunday, December 30

1 p.m.
Wofford at Virginia — Fox Sports Net-regional (Arizona/Florida/Prime Ticket/San Diego/South/Southwest)/Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic/NESN

Women’s: Marist at Kentucky — Fox Sports North Plus/Fox Sports South Plus
Women’s: Rutgers at Tennessee — Fox Sports Arizona Plus/North/South/Wisconsin

2 p.m.
Women’s: Houston at Texas Tech — Fox Sports Southwest

3 p.m.
Women’s: North Dakota State at South Dakota State — Fox College Sports Central

4 p.m.
Alabama A&M at Mississippi State — CSS/Comcast SportsNet (Bay Area/Northwest)
Mississippi Valley State at TCU — Fox Sports Southwest/Fox Sports North Plus/Fox Sports West/Fox College Sports Atlantic

6 p.m.
Tulane at Alabama — ESPNU
Northern Iowa at Wichita State — Fox Sports Midwest/Comcast SportsNet Chicago/Fox College Sports Central

7 p.m.
Dayton at USC — Pac-12 Network

8 p.m.
Loyola (MD) at Memphis — CSS/Comcast SportsNet (Mid-Atlantic/Northwest/Philadelphia)

College Basketball Viewing Picks For 12/22 & 12/23/2012, All Times Eastern

Men’s schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports

Saturday, December 22

Gotham Classic, New York, NY
Syracuse vs. Temple — ESPN2, noon

Diamond Head Classic, Honolulu, HI
Quarterfinals
Indiana State vs. Mississippi — ESPNU, 4 p.m.
San Diego State vs. San Francisco — ESPNU, 6:30 p.m.
Arizona vs. Tennessee State — ESPNU, 10:30 p.m.
Miami (FL) vs. Hawaii — ESPNU, 1 a.m. (Sunday)

Virginia Governor’s Cup, Richmond, VA
Richmond vs. George Mason — NBC Sports Network, 3 p.m.
Old Dominion vs. Virginia — NBC Sports Network, 5:30 p.m.

noon
American at Georgetown — Big East Network
Murray State at Dayton — CBS Sports Network
McNeese State at North Carolina — ESPNU

1 p.m.
Coppin State at Iowa — Big Ten Network
Tennessee Tech at Oklahoma State — Fox Sports Southwest/Fox Sports North Plus/Fox College Sports Atlantic

Women’s: UConn at Hartford — SNY

1:30 p.m.
USC at Georgia — Fox Sports Net-regional (Arizona Plus/Midwest/North/Prime Ticket./an Diego/South/Southwest/Wisconsin/Sun Sports)

2 p.m.
Maryland-Baltimore County at DePaul — Big East Network
Florida State vs. Charlotte at Charlotte, NC — CBS Sports Network
Georgia State at URI — Cox Sports RI
Mercer at Alabama — CSS/Comcast SportsNet (Bay Area/Chicago/Houston/New England/Northwest)
Texas at Michigan State — ESPN2
LSU at Marquette — ESPNU
Arizona State at Texas Tech — Fox Sports Southwest Plus/Fox Sports Arizona/Fox Sports West/Fox College Sports Central

3 p.m.
Tulsa at Oral Roberts — Fox College Sports Atlantic
Houston Baptist at Oregon — Pac-12 Network (Oregon/Washington)

Women’s: Duke at USC — Pac-12 Network

4 p.m.
Wright State at Cincinnati — Big East Network
Kansas at Ohio State — CBS
Marshall at Kentucky — ESPN2
Citadel at Georgia Tech — Fox Sports Net-regional (Arizona Plus/Florida/North/San Diego/South/Prime Ticket/Wisconsin/Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic/NESN)
Southern at Texas A&M — Fox Sports Southwest Plus/Fox Sports West/Sun Sports/Fox College Sports Central

Women’s: Stanford at Tennessee — Fox Sports Net-regional (Arizona/SportSouth)

5 p.m.
Prairie View A&M at Cal — Pac-12 Network

6 p.m.
Missouri vs. Illinois at St. Louis, MO — ESPN2

7 p.m.
Lafayette at Minnesota — Big Ten Network
Northern Illinois at Washington — Pac-12 Network

8 p.m.
Winthrop at Auburn — CSS/Comcast SportsNet (Bay Area/Chicago/New England)
Davidson at Drexel — NBC Sports Network

8:30 p.m.
Florida vs. Kansas State at Kansas City, MO — ESPN2
Louisville vs. Western Kentucky at Nashville, TN — ESPNU

9 p.m.
Missouri State at New Mexico State — Fox Sports Arizona Plus/Fox College Sports Atlantic
Oregon State vs. San Diego State at Las Vegas, NV — Pac-12 Network

9:15 p.m.
Milwaukee at Wisconsin — Big Ten Network

11 p.m.
Fresno State at UCLA — Pac-12 Network

Sunday, December 23

Diamond Head Classic, Honolulu, HI
Consolation
ESPNU, 3 p.m.
ESPNU, 9 p.m.

Semifinals
ESPNU, 5:30 p.m.
ESPN2, 11:30 p.m.

Las Vegas Classic, Las Vegas, NV
3rd Place Game
CBS Sports Network, 9 p.m.

Championship Game
CBS Sports Network, 11:30 p.m.

11:30 a.m.
UNH at Penn State — Big Ten Network

noon
Siena at Fordham — YES

5 p.m.
Kennesaw State at Pittsburgh — Big East Network

College Basketball Viewing Picks For 12/15 & 12/16/2012, All Times Eastern

Men’s Schedule Courtesy of Matt’s College Sports

Saturday, December 15

Brooklyn Hoops Winter Festival, Brooklyn, NY
Fordham vs. Princeton — YES, 2:30 p.m.
St. John’s vs. St. Francis — YES, 5 p.m.
Michigan vs. West Virginia — ESPN, 8 p.m.

Crossroads Classic, Indianapolis, IN
Butler vs. Indiana — CBS, 2 p.m.
Notre Dame vs. Purdue — ESPN2, 4:30 p.m.

noon
Western Carolina at Georgetown — Big East Network
North Carolina-Asheville at Ohio State — Big Ten Network
East Carolina at North Carolina — ESPNU
Akron at Detroit — Fox Sports Detroit/Fox College Sports Atlantic

12:30 p.m.
Lipscomb at Kentucky — Fox Sports Net-regional (Arizona/Midwest/North/San Diego/South/Southwest/Prime Ticket/Wisconsin)

2 p.m.
Savannah State at Marquette — Big East Network
Cincinnati vs. Marshall at Charleston, WV — CBS Sports Network
SMU at URI — Cox Sports RI
Oklahoma vs. Texas A&M at Oklahoma City, OK — ESPNU

2:30 p.m.
Big Four Classic, Des Moines, IA: Iowa vs. Northern Iowa — Big Ten Network
Louisville at Memphis — Fox Sports Net-national/Fox College Sports Pacific

3 p.m.
Dartmouth at Arizona State — Pac-12 Network

4 p.m.
Alabama at VCU — CBS Sports Network

4:30 p.m.
Nebraska at Oregon — Fox Sports Net-national/Fox College Sports Pacific

5 p.m.
Iona at Georgia — CSS/Comcast SportsNet (Chicago/New England/Northwest)/SNY
Cal-Davis at Stanford — Pac-12 Network

6 p.m.
New Mexico State at New Mexico — CBS Sports Network

7 p.m.
Canisius at Syracuse — Big East Network
Belmont at Kansas — ESPNU
Cal-Riverside at USC — Pac-12 Network (Arizona/Bay Area/Los Angeles)
Jackson State at Washington — Pac-12 Network (Mountain/Oregon/Washington)

8 p.m.
Texas State at Texas — Longhorn Network

9 p.m.
BYU at Weber State — BYU TV
Kansas State vs. Gonzaga at Seattle, WA — ESPN2
Tuskegee at Michigan State — ESPNU
Utah State at Utah Valley — Fox College Sports Pacific
Prairie View A&M at UCLA — Pac-12 Network

10 p.m.
Florida at Arizona — ESPN

11 p.m.
Creighton at Cal — Pac-12 Network

Sunday, December 16

1 p.m.
North Carolina A&T at Seton Hall — Big East Network
New Hampshire at Boston College — Fox Sports Net-regional (Arizona Plus/North Plus/San Diego/South/Southwest Plus/Prime Ticket)/Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic Plus/NESN

2 p.m.
Women’s: Lipscomb at Georgia — CSS/Comcast SportsNet (California/New England)
Women’s: Tennessee at Texas — Fox Sports Net-national

3 p.m.
Women’s: Vanderbilt at Oklahoma — Fox Sports Oklahoma Plus/Fox Sports South Plus

4 p.m.
Delaware at Villanova — ESPNU
Central Arkansas at Oklahoma — Fox Sports Arizona/Fox Sports Southwest/Fox College Sports Pacific

6 p.m.
Eastern Kentucky at Illinois — ESPNU
McNeese State at Texas Tech — Fox Sports Arizona/Fox Sports Southwest/Fox College Sports Central

7 p.m.
Chicago State at Oregon State — Pac-12 Network

College Basketball Viewing Picks, 12/08 & 12/09/12, All Times Eastern

Men’s schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports

MSG Holiday Classic, New York, NY
Fordham vs. St. John’s — MSG Plus, 7 p.m.
Rutgers vs. Iona — MSG Plus, 9:30 p.m.

noon
Towson at Georgetown — Big East Network
Long Beach State at Ohio State — Big Ten Network
Arkansas at Michigan — CBS
Portland at Kentucky — ESPN2

1 p.m.
TCU at Tulsa — Fox Sports Net-national/Fox College Sports Central
Cleveland State at North Carolina State — Fox Sports Net-regional (San Diego/South)/Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic/Sun Sports
Austin Peay at Memphis — SportSouth/Fox Sports North Plus/Fox College Sports Pacific

2 p.m.
Maryland-Eastern Shore at Cincinnati — Big East Network
Loyola (Chicago) at Michigan State — Big Ten Network
Colorado at Kansas — ESPN2
Cal State-Northridge at Arizona State — Pac-12 Network

2:30 p.m.
Kansas State at George Washington — CBS Sports Network

3:15 p.m.
Temple vs. Duke at East Rutherford, NJ — ESPN

4 p.m.
Army At Penn State — Big Ten Network
Virginia Tech at West Virginia — ESPN2
Missouri State at Oklahoma State — Fox Sports Southwest/Fox Sports Arizona Plus/Fox Sports Wisconsin/Fox College Sports Central
Vermont at Quinnipiac — NESN
Grambling at Oregon State — Pac-12 Network

5:15 p.m.
UCLA vs. Texas at Houston, TX — ESPN

6 p.m.
Central Connecticut State at Indiana — Big Ten Network
Wisconsin at Marquette — ESPN2
Northern Iowa at George Mason — NBC Sports Network
Idaho State at Oregon — Pac-12 Network

7 p.m.
Monmouth at Syracuse — Big East Network

8 p.m.
Butler at Northwestern — Big Ten Network
Arizona at Clemson — ESPN2
Villanova at Penn — NBC Sports Network
Nevada at Washington — Pac-12 Network

9 p.m.
Utah at BYU — BYU TV

10 p.m.
Illinois at Gonzaga — ESPN2

10:30 p.m.
Minnesota at USC — Pac-12 Network

Sunday, December 9

noon
women’s: Georgetown at Penn State — Big Ten Network

1 p.m.
women’s: Middle Tennessee State at Kentucky — Fox Sports San Diego/Fox Sports South/Fox Sports Wisconsin/Sun Sports

2 p.m.
women’s: Central Connecticut State at New Hampshire — Fox College Sports Atlantic

3 p.m.
Fresno State at Washington State — Pac-12 Network

women’s: South Dakota at Kansas State — Fox Sports Midwest/Fox Sports North
women’s: Furman at South Carolina — Fox Sports Wisconsin/SportSouth/Sun Sports

4 p.m.
Maine at Florida State — ESPNU

6 p.m.
UNLV at Cal — ESPNU

College Basketball Viewing Picks For 12/01 & 12/02/2012, All Times Eastern

Men’s Schedule Courtesy of Matt’s College Sports

Saturday, December 1

SEC/Big East Challenge
Mississippi State at Providence — ESPNU, noon
Rutgers at Mississippi — ESPNU, 2 p.m.
Alabama at Cincinnati — ESPN2, 3 p.m.
Villanova at Vanderbilt — ESPNU, 6 p.m.

John Wooden Classic, Anaheim, CA
San Diego State vs. UCLA — ESPNU, 10 p.m.

noon
Nicholls State at Michigan State — Big Ten Network

women’s — Mississippi Valley State at Kansas State — Fox Sports Midwest

12:30 p.m.
Baylor at Kentucky — CBS

1 p.m.
Illinois at Louisville — Big East Network
Brown at New Hampshire — Fox College Sports Atlantic

2 p.m.
Miami (FL) at UMass — CBS Sports Network
Vermont at URI — Cox Sports RI
Delaware at Duke — Fox Sports Net-regional (Arizona Plus/Florida/North Plus/San Diego/South/Prime Ticket)/Comcast SportsNet/NESN

2:15 p.m.
Xavier at Purdue — Big Ten Network

4 p.m.
Michigan at Bradley — ESPNU
Wisconsin-Green Bay at Virginia — Fox Sports Net-regional (Arizona Plus/Florida/North Plus/San Diego/South/Wisconsin/Prime Ticket)/Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic/NESN
Texas-Arlington at Texas — Longhorn Network

women’s — Georgetown at George Washington — Comcast SportsNet New England/Mid-Atlantic Plus

4:30 p.m.
Northern Kentucky at Iowa — Big Ten Network

6 p.m.
UAB at North Carolina — ESPNU

6:30 p.m.
Texas A&M at Houston — Fox Sports Net-national
Sam Houston State at Northern Arizona — Fox Sports Arizona Plus/Fox College Sports Pacific
Arkansas-Pine Bluff at Oregon — Pac-12 Network

7:30 p.m.
Coppin State at Indiana — Big Ten Network

8 p.m.
Arizona at Texas Tech — ESPNU

8:30 p.m.
Sacramento State at Arizona State — Pac-12 Network

10:30 p.m.
Portland at Washington State — Pac-12 Network

Sunday, December 2

BB&T Classic, Washington, DC
Manhattan vs. George Washington — MASN/Fox Sports Net-national/Fox College Sports Atlantic, noon
George Mason vs. Maryland — MASN/Fox Sports Net-national, 2:30 p.m.

noon
Clemson at South Carolina — ESPNU

1 p.m.
women’s — North Carolina at Tennessee — Fox Sports South

1:30 p.m.
women’s — Central Michigan at Purdue — Big Ten Network

2 p.m.
South Carolina Upstate at Kansas State — Fox Sports Midwest/North Plus/Prime Ticket/Fox College Sports Central

women’s — Xavier at Cincinnati — Fox Sports Ohio

3 p.m.
women’s — Marist at Oklahoma — Fox Sports Oklahoma
women’s — Houston at TCU — Fox Sports Southwest

4 p.m.
Cal at Wisconsin — Big Ten Network

4:30 p.m.
Valparaiso at Saint Louis — Fox Sports Midwest/Fox College Sports Central

5 p.m.
Denver at Stanford — Pac-12 Network

6 p.m.
women’s — Kentucky at Louisville — ESPNU

7 p.m.
Cal State-Fullerton at Washington — Pac-12 Network

Cranking Out The Friday Megalinks

Wasn’t able to do any posts yesterday as I was away for most of the day. Tough to get anything done when you’re out of range for any internet or even 3G. First World Problems.

Anyway, time for some Friday megalinks. Been doing well with the links, except for Thursday, but let’s continue doing them today.

No Weekend Viewing Picks yet. When they’re done, I’ll insert them here.

Let’s get cracking on the linkage.

National

We begin with Michael Hiestand of USA Today who talks with CBS’ Gary Danielson about the SEC Championship.

Ed Sherman with The Sherman Report has AOL’s David Whitley’s response to criticisms about his column about 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s tattoos.

Ed has CBS’ Verne Lundquist discussing SEC fatigue.

Ed has Gary Danielson’s preview of the SEC Championship.

And Ed analyzes the local ratings for the NFL.

Michael David Smith at Pro Football Talk has Hollywood movie producer Harvey Weinstein baffled at the NFL’s censoring of an interview featuring Bradley Cooper over a movie Weinstein produced that referenced gambling and adds that some team owners actually liked the flick.

Lesley Goldberg of the Hollywood Reporter notes that U.S. Olympic diving gold medalist David Boudia will join a new ABC celebrity diving show as a judge. Yes, Greg Louganis will also be a judge.

Will Ashworth of Investor Place wonders if now is the time for Disney to sell ESPN.

Jordan Rabinowitz of SportsGrid has video of San Antonio Spurs coach Greg Popovich shooting down TNT’s Charles Barkley during an in-game interview against the Miami Heat.

Matt Yoder from Awful Announcing says this weekend is a big test for Fox College Football.

Dave Kohl at the Broadcast Booth notes that CBS Sports Network and NBC Sports Network need to step up their games.

Sports Media Watch talks about the ratings for Notre Dame-USC.

Kristi Dosh at ESPN.com says Notre Dame’s resurgence is good news for its TV rights.

ESPN’s Darren Rovell feels NBA Communist Sympathizer David Stern is wrong for threatening to sanction the San Antonio Spurs for sending their major players home last night.

Ronnie Ramos at the Indiana University National Sports Journalism Center says traditional media is clashing with new rules surrounding live tweeting of games.

From earlier in the week, John Koblin of Deadspin writes about ESPN admonishing its staff for crediting a story to SportsbyBrooks.

East and Mid-Atlantic

Chad Finn from the Boston Globe says some big name announcers got their start at Boston College’s student radio station.

Paul Doyle of the Hartford Courant writes that the Big East Conference has to recover from its latest blows while negotiating a new TV contract.

Charles McGrath of the New York Times profiles WFAN’s Steve Somers who’s been schmoozing s-p-o-r-t-s for 25 years on the nation’s first all-sports radio station.

Newsday’s Neil Best says SNY’s New York Jets postgame show does not pull any punches.

Neil has the Jets’ Tim Tebow being fine with the New York media.

Neil has an ESPN executive embracing debate.

The New York Post’s Phil Mushnick hates the Knicks’ style of play.

Pete Dougherty in the Albany Times Union has New York’s Capital Region’s Week 13 NFL TV schedule.

Pete says ESPN executives are doing backflips over Notre Dame playing in the BCS National Championship Game.

Ken McMillan of the Middletown (NY) Times Herald-Record says next week’s Army-Navy game will be aired nationally on radio.

Jim Williams of the Washington Examiner notes that Louisville made the right sales pitch to get invited to join the ACC.

South

Mel Bracht from The Oklahoman notes that three local college football teams all get national telecasts at the same time on Saturday.

Midwest

Lynn Henning of the Detroit News says while the Tigers may not have a rights fee as high as major market teams, they are still happy with their relationship with Fox Sports.

Bob Wolfley of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel recaps a GQ article that profiles some of the NFL replacement referees.

Danny Ecker at Crain’s Chicago Business discusses Groupon’s new relationship with MLB.

Dan Caesar at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch notes that Missouri football and basketball games will remain on a Gateway City radio station for several years.

Dan wonders where a local sports radio talk show host will surface after losing his job for making racial comments.

Greg Palermo of the Creve Coeur (MO) Patch says a local sports radio host said goodbye to his listeners today.

West

The Idaho Statesman says ESPN Radio has picked up a new affiliate in Boise.

John Maffei of the North County Times is frustrated that most local fans can’t watch this weekend’s high school football championship games.

Jim Carlisle from the Ventura County Star says tonight’s Pac-12 Championship on Fox gives UCLA and Stanford a chance to wipe their slate clean for the postseason.

Steve Dilbeck of the Los Angeles Times catches up with Dodgers voice Vin Scully as he turns 85.

Tom Hoffarth of the Los Angeles Daily News says the Dodgers are about to hit the motherlode whether it’s with Fox or another company.

Tom has some items that didn’t make his newspaper media column.

And that’s going to do it for now.

College Football Viewing Picks For Week 14, 12/01/2012, All Times Eastern

Schedule Courtesy of Matt’s College Sports

Pregame & Studio Shows
College GameDay live from the SEC Championship, Atlanta, GA — ESPNU, 9 a.m./ESPN, 10 a.m.
This Week in SEC Football — CBS Sports Network, 1 p.m.
College Football Countdown — ABC, 3 p.m.
College Football Championship Saturday — CBS, 3 p.m.
College Football Scoreboard — ESPN, 3 p.m.
College Football Today — CBS, 3:30 p.m.
Big Ten Football Championship Pregame — Big Ten Network, 6:30 p.m.
College Football Scoreboard — ESPN, 7 p.m.
SEC Tonight — CBS Sports Network, 7:30 p.m.
College Football Saturday — Fox, 7:30 p.m.
Big Ten Football Championship Game — Big Ten Network, 11:30 p.m.
Inside College Football: Championship Saturday Special — CBS Sports Network, midnight
College Football Final — ESPN2, midnight

ACC Championship, Charlotte, NC
Florida State vs. Georgia Tech — ESPN, 8 p.m. (Brent Musburger/Kirk Herbstreit/Heather Cox)

Big Ten Championship, Indianapolis, IN
Nebraska vs. Wisconsin — Fox, 8 p.m. (Gus Johnson/Charles Davis/Julie Alexandria/Petros Papadakis)

Conference USA Championship
Central Florida at Tulsa — ESPN2/ESPN 3D, noon (Dave Pasch/Brian Griese/Jenn Brown)

SEC Championship, Atlanta, GA
Alabama vs. Georgia — CBS, 4 p.m. (Verne Lundquist/Gary Danielson/Tracy Wolfson)

noon
Oklahoma at TCU — ESPN (Joe Tessitore/Matt Millen/Shannon Spake)

Oklahoma State at Baylor — FX (Craig Bolerjack/Joel Klatt/Darius Walker)

2:30 p.m.
Kansas at West Virginia — Fox Sports Net (national)/Root Sports (Northwest/Pittsburgh/Rocky Mountain)/WLVI/WMCN/KICU/Fox College Sports Central (Steve Physioc/Brian Baldinger/Jim Knox)

Nicholls State at Oregon State — Pac-12 Network (Kevin Calabro/Glenn Parker/Ryan Nece)

3:30 p.m.
Boise State at Nevada — ABC (Mike Patrick/Ed Cunningham/Jeannine Edwards)
Cincinnati at UConn — ABC (Bob Wischusen/Danny Kanell/Maria Taylor)

7 p.m.
Pittsburgh at South Florida — ESPN2 (Mark Jones/Brock Huard/Quint Kessenich)

8 p.m.
Texas at Kansas State — ABC (Brad Nessler/Todd Blackledge/Holly Rowe)

Fox Sports Media Group’s College Football Games For Week 14 Including Announcing Assignments

For the second straight year, Fox Sports has a double conference championship game weekend. And once again, Gus Johnson and Charles Davis will pull the double, calling the Pac-12 Championship Game on Friday in Palo Alto, CA and then taking the red eye east to Indianapolis for the Big Ten Championship Game to call that game on Saturday. Fox will use Julie Alexandria and Petros Papadakis on the sidelines for both games.

Fox also has two Big 12 games on FX and Fox Sports Net at noon and at 2 p.m. ET on Saturday.

We have the games that will be aired on the Fox Sports Media Group for the final week of college football before we get to the Bowl games.

College Football on FOX Advance Programming Schedule
November 30-December 1
All times Eastern unless otherwise indicated

DATE	TIME	GAME	OUTLET	Play by Play	Analyst	Sideline
Friday, November 30	8:00 PM	Pac-12 Championship Game: UCLA at Stanford	FOX/FOX Deportes	Gus Johnson	Charles Davis	Julie Alexandria/Petros Papadakis
Saturday, December 1	8:00 PM	B1G Championships Game (from Lucas Oil Stadium): Wisconsin vs. Nebraska	FOX/FOX Deportes	Gus Johnson	Charles Davis	Julie Alexandria/Petros Papadakis
Saturday, December 1	12:00 PM	Oklahoma St. at Baylor	FX	Craig Bolerjack	Joel Klatt	Darius Walker
Saturday, December 1	2:30 PM	Kansas at West Virginia	FSN (National)	Steve Physioc	Brian Baldinger	Jim Knox

There you have it.

It’s A Wednesday Link Thing

Let’s do some linkage for you as we hit mid-week.

Once again, a shameless plug. Here are some Quick Wednesday Sports Media Thoughts which were written very early this morning.

USA Today’s Michael Hiestand talks with former ESPN’er Dana Jacobsen who will be part of CBS Sports Radio’s morning show when the network launches in January.

Tim Baysinger of Broadcasting & Cable says ESPN will donate $1 million to the Jimmy V Foundation for cancer research.

Brian Steinberg at Advertising Age looks at which marketers have bought time for Super Bowl XLVII on CBS.

E.J. Schultz of Ad Age says ad agency powerhouse Wieden & Kennedy has won the right to produce Oreo’s Super Bowl spot.

Michael Bradley in the Indiana University National Sports Journalism Center says regional sports networks need to spend big money for rights to local teams otherwise they’re stuck without programming.

At Fangraphs, the always lovely Wendy Thurm looks at the Los Angeles Dodgers’ megadeal with Fox plus displays what all of the MLB teams generate in local rights fees.

Ed Sherman at The Sherman Report says the Dodgers’ contract with Fox proves that the rich just get richer.

Ed looks at this year’s National Sporscasters and Sportswriters Association Hall of Fame ballot.

Matt Yoder of Awful Announcing has the disturbing news that ESPN2′s First Take will be expanding to Saturday mornings after college football season.

Matt has a look at Fox Sports 1.

Bob Kennedy of the Stamford (CT) Advocate says NBC Sports Group Chairman Mark Lazarus will receive a local honor next week.

Richard Sandomir of the New York Times delves into why the late Marvin Miller is not in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Keith Olbermann pays tribute to Miller.

In Press Box, Dave Hughes from DCRTV.com has his weekly Baltimore-DC media column.

Adam Kilgore of the Washington Post writes that while the Los Angeles Dodgers’ TV rights are about to be settled, the Nationals’ through MASN still remains up in the air.

Jim Williams from the Washington Examiner talks about Marvin Miller’s impact on baseball.

Ragan Robinson of the Gaston (NC) Gazette says local entrepreneurs got the seal of approval from ESPN for their golf gadget.

Barry Jackson at the Miami Herald has the comments from TNT’s Charles Barkley on the Heat.

Jacques Couret of the Atlanta Business Chronicle says Fox Sports South and its affiliated regional sports networks have hired a new Executive Producer.

Mel Bracht from The Oklahoman has a look at the local weekend TV ratings.

John Kiesewetter of the Cincinnati Enquirer notes that audio of Bengals QB Andy Dalton will be aired on two national mid-week NFL shows tonight.

Bob Wolfley of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has Green Bay Packers QB Aaron Rodgers apologizing to fans on his weekly radio show.

Danny Ecker from Crain’s Chicago Business notes that the Bulls practice facility could get a lot of money for its naming rights.

The Peoria (IL) Journal Star reports that four Illinois State basketball games will be picked up by Comcast SportsNet Chicago.

Scott D. Pierce of the Salt Lake Tribune writes that one weekend late night sports TV show tops the local ratings.

Sports Media Watch notes that ESPN’s Monday Night Football suffered a ratings decline for Panthers-Eagles earlier this week.

Adam Guillen, Jr. of SB Nation’s MMA Mania reports that Fox is hoping to sign a UFC event for Super Bowl XLVIII weekend in February 2014.

Tony Manfred at the Business Insider’s Sports Page has women’s soccer star Hope Solo blaming the media for reporting on her husband’s domestic violence issues. Hope is a nut.

And I managed to squeeze out some good linkage today. Enjoy your Wednesday.

Going For Some Tuesday Links

Let’s bring you some linkage. Two days in a row! This is something!

Shameless plug department: I wrote Some Long Overdue Tuesday Sports Media Thoughts earlier this morning and make sure you give it a gander. Many thanks.

Sam Gustin of Time writes that News Corp.’s purchase of a minority stake in YES could help Fox challenge ESPN down the road.

Alicia Jessop at Forbes notes how the NFL successfully marketed to women to the point where they are now 44% of the league’s fan base.

Mike Reynolds of Multichannel News reports on the potential megadeal between Fox and the Los Angeles Dodgers.

In part two of his interview with SiriusXM’s Dino Costa, Ed Sherman of The Sherman Report goes into the relationship the Mad Dog radio host has with his boss, Chris Russo.

Salvej Schou of Entertainment Weekly says a Hollywood movie executive is angry at NFL Network for censoring at the last minute, a Rich Eisen interview with actor Bradley Cooper.

John Koblin of Deadspin speaks with some media professionals on the plagiarism issues plaguing ESPN.com and writer Lynne Hoppes.

Media Rantz looks at the impending launch of Fox Sports 1.

Les Carpenter of Yahoo! has a profile on former New Orleans Saints quarterback turned popular sports radio talk show host, Bobby Hebert.

Carl Marcucci of Radio & Television Business Report writes about CBS Sports Radio’s new morning show.

Newscast Studio looks at CBS Sports Network’s new college football studio.

Fox Soccer may have lost the English Premier League rights in the US, but Fox Sports in Australia has retained the rights to all of the EPL’s games Down Under.

The New York Post’s Kirsten Fleming talks with NBC’s Michelle Beadle.

Ken Schott from the Schenectady Gazette says NBC Sports Network has added a college hockey game to its schedule.

Pete Dougherty of the Albany Times Union writes that there’s no change to the NFL schedules in the next few weeks.

Ken McMillan at the Middletown (NY) Times Herald-Record says CBS Sports Network will be re-airing a host of Army-Navy football games next week.

Dave Hughes in Press Box notes that Baltimore’s CBS-owned sports radio station will drop all ESPN Radio programming in favor of CBS Sports Radio in January.

Dan Steinberg at the Washington Post’s DC Sports Bog says TNT is once again comparing the Wizards to the hapless Harlem Globetrotters whipping team, the Washington Generals.

David Barron of the Houston Chronicle looks at the local weekend ratings for Thanksgiving weekend.

Scott Wright at The Oklahoman says Fox Sports will air three high school championship games on its Oklahoma Plus channel.

The Detroit Free Press summarizes an ESPN The Magazine interview with controversial Lions defensive lineman Ndamukong Suh.

Sports Media Watch notes that Fox Sports drew close to the rear in the college football ratings for Week 13.

SMW says an Iron Bowl blowout did not help the SEC on CBS’ ratings.

And SMW looks at college football TV ratings on ESPN, ABC and NBC.

Joe Lucia at Awful Announcing delves into the Fox/Dodgers deal.

Joe Favorito likes how the Green Bay Packers have embraced Movember.

Brian Clapp at Sports TV Jobs says the future is very bright for sports broadcasting.

That is going to wrap up our links for today.

College Football Viewing Picks For Week 13, 11/23 & 11/24/2012, All Times Eastern

Schedule Courtesy of Matt’s College Sports

Friday, November 23

Pregame & Studio Shows
Best of College Football 2012 — CBS, 1:30 p.m.
Fox College Football Saturday — Fox, 3 p.m.

11 a.m.
Syracuse at Temple — ESPN2 (Tom Hart/John Congemi)
Ohio at Kent State — ESPNU (Adam Amin/Tom Luginbill)

noon
Nebraska at Iowa — ABC (Mike Patrick/Ed Cunningham/Jeannine Edwards)

2 p.m.
Marshall at East Carolina — CBS Sports Network

2:30 p.m.
LSU at Arkansas — CBS (Tim Brando/Steve Beuerlein/Marty Snider)

3 p.m.
Utah at Colorado — FX (Mike Morgan/JC Pearson/Laura McKeeman)

3:30 p.m.
West Virginia at Iowa State — ABC (Dave Lamont/Kelly Stouffer)

Washington at Washington State — Fox (Craig Bolerjack/Joel Klatt/Petros Papadakis)

7 p.m.
South Florida at Cincinnati — ESPN (Mark Neely/Ray Bentley)

10 p.m.
Arizona State at Arizona — ESPN (Carter Blackburn/Rod Gilmore/Jemele Hill)

Saturday, November 24

Pregame & Studio Shows
College GameDay live from Los Angeles, CA — ESPNU, 9 a.m./ESPN, 10 a.m.
BTN Pregame — Big Ten Network, 11 a.m.
ACC Blitz — ACC Network, noon
Fox College Saturday — Fox, 2 p.m.
College Football Special — CBS, 2:30 p.m.
BTN Football Postgame — Big Ten Network, 3 p.m.
College Football Today — CBS, 3 p.m.
College Football Scoreboard — ESPN, 3 p.m.
College Football Scoreboard — ESPN2, 3 p.m.
Fox College Saturday — Fox, 6 p.m.
The Final Drive — Big Ten Network, 6:30 p.m.
College Football Scoreboard — ESPN, 6:30 p.m.
College Football Scoreboard — ESPN2, 6:30 p.m.
SEC Tonight — CBS Sports Network, 7 p.m.
College Football Scoreboard — ESPN2, 10 p.m.
College Football Final — ESPN2, 1:30 a.m. (Sunday)

noon
Michigan at Ohio State — ABC (Sean McDonough/Chris Spielman/Quint Kessenich)

UConn at Louisville — Big East Network (Eamon McAnaney/David Diaz-Infante/Adam Amin)

Illinois at Northwestern — Big Ten Network (Eric Collins/Derek Rackley/Jon Jansen)
Indiana at Purdue — Big Ten Network (Josh Lewin/Chris Martin/J Leman)

Georgia Tech at Georgia — ESPN/ESPN 3D (Dave Pasch/Brian Griese/Jenn Brown)
Rutgers at Pittsburgh — ESPN2 (Beth Mowins/Joey Galloway/Paul Carcaterra)
Virginia at Virginia Tech — ESPNU (Tom Hart/John Congemi)

Tulsa at SMU — FX (Steve Physioc/Brian Baldinger/Jim Knox)
UAB at Central Florida — Fox Sports Net-national/WLVI/KICU/Fox College Sports Atlantic (Mike Gleason/Gary Reasons/Leslie McCaslin)

Kentucky at Tennessee — SEC Network, 12:21 p.m. (Dave Neal/Andre Ware/Cara Capuano)

12:30 p.m.
Miami (FL) at Duke — ACC Network

2:30 p.m.
Bayou Classic, New Orleans, LA: Grambling vs. Southern — NBC (Paul Burmeister/Rod Woodson/Lewis Johnson)

Baylor vs. Texas Tech at Arlington, TX — Fox (Justin Kutcher/Eric Crouch/Darius Walker)

3 p.m.
Idaho at Utah State — ESPN Plus (Trey Bender/Jay Taylor)

Maryland at North Carolina — Fox Sports Net-regional (Arizona Plus/North Plus/San Diego/South/Southwest Plus/Prime Ticket)/Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic/NESN (Rich Waltz/Keith Jones/Jenn Hildreth)

3:30 p.m.
Florida at Florida State — ABC (Brad Nessler/Todd Blackledge/Holly Rowe)

Michigan State at Minnesota — Big Ten Network (Kevin Kugler/Glen Mason/Rebecca Haarlow)

Auburn at Alabama — CBS (Verne Lundquist/Gary Danielson/Tracy Wolfson)

Oklahoma State at Oklahoma — ESPN (Bob Wischusen/Danny Kanell/Maria Taylor)
Wisconsin at Penn State — ESPN2 (Mark Jones/Brock Huard/Jessica Mendoza)
Vanderbilt at Wake Forest — ESPNU (Anish Shroff/Dan Hawkins)

Tulane at Houston — Fox Sports Net-national/WDCA/KICU/Fox College Sports Central (Ron Thulin/JC Pearson/Laura McKeeman)

Air Force at Fresno State — NBC Sports Network (Todd Harris/Anthony Herron)

4:30 p.m.
Southern Mississippi at Memphis — CSS/Comcast SportsNet (Bay Area/Houston/Mid-Atlantic Plus/Northwest)/The Comcast Network

6:30 p.m.
Stanford at UCLA — Fox (Gus Johnson/Charles Davis/Julie Alexandria)

7 p.m.
South Carolina at Clemson — ESPN, 7:15 p.m. (Joe Tessitore/Matt Millen/Shannon Spake)
Missouri at Texas A&M — ESPN2 (Steve Levy/Ed Cunningham/Kaylee Hartung)
Mississippi State at Mississippi — ESPNU (Clay Matvick/Matt Stinchcomb/Allison Williams)

8 p.m.
Notre Dame at USC — ABC (Brent Musburger/Kirk Herbstreit/Heather Cox)

10:30 p.m.
Louisiana Tech at San Jose State — ESPN2 (Joe Davis/Tom Luginbill)

Fox Sports Media Group’s College Football Games For Week 13 Including Announcing Assignments

Now to Fox Sports and what it will air this weekend. Lots of games and platforms. Check it out.

College Football on FOX Advance Programming Schedule
November 23-24

All times Eastern unless otherwise indicated

DATE	TIME	GAME	OUTLET	Play by Play	Analyst	Sideline
Friday, November 23	3:30 PM	Washington at Washington St.	FOX	Craig Bolerjack	Joel Klatt	Petros Papadakis
Friday, November 23	3:00 PM	Utah at Colorado	FX	Mike Morgan	JC Pearson	Laura McKeeman
Saturday, November 24	2:30 PM	Baylor vs. Texas Tech (from Cowboys Stadium)	FOX	Justin Kutcher	Eric Crouch	Darius Walker
Saturday, November 24	6:30 PM	Stanford at UCLA	FOX/FOX Deportes	Gus Johnson	Charles Davis	Julie Alexandria
Saturday, November 24	12:00 PM	Illinois at Northwestern	BTN	Eric Collins	Derek Rackley	Jon Jansen
Saturday, November 24	12:00 PM	Indiana at Purdue	BTN	Josh Lewin	Chris Martin	J Leman
Saturday, November 24	12:00 PM	UAB at UCF	FSN (National)	Mike Gleason	Gary Reasons	Leslie McCaslin
Saturday, November 24	12:00 PM	Tulsa at SMU	FX	Steve Physioc	Brian Baldinger	Jim Knox
Saturday, November 24	3:00 PM	Maryland at North Carolina	FS South	Rich Waltz	Keith Jones	Jenn Hildreth
Saturday, November 24	3:30 PM	Michigan State at Minnesota	BTN	Kevin Kugler	Glen Mason	Rebecca Haarlow
Saturday, November 24	3:30 PM	Tulane at Houston	FSN (National)	Ron Thulin	JC Pearson	Laura McKeeman
Saturday, November 24	7:00 PM	Rice at UTEP	FCS Atlantic	Joel Meyers	Ben Leber	Lesley McCaslin

That’s going to do it.

College Football Viewing Picks For Week 12, 11/17/2012, All Times Eastern

Schedule Courtesy of Matt’s College Sports

Pregame & Studio Shows
College GameDay live from Eugene, OR — ESPNU, 9 a.m./ESPN, 10 a.m.
BTN Football Pregame — Big Ten Network, 11 a.m.
ACC Blitz — ACC Network, noon
College Football Uncut: Game Day — CBS, 2:30 p.m.
Fox College Saturday — Fox, 2:30 p.m.
College Football Countdown — ABC, 3 p.m.
BTN Football Postgame — Big Ten Network, 3 p.m.
College Football Today — CBS, 3 p.m.
College Football Scoreboard — ESPN, 3 p.m.
College Football Scoreboard — ESPN2, 3 p.m.
The Final Drive — Big Ten Network, 6:30 p.m.
College Football Scoreboard — ESPN2, 6:30 p.m.
Fox College Saturday — Fox, 6:30 p.m.
SEC Tonight — CBS Sports Network, 7 p.m.
College Football Scoreboard — ESPN, 7:45 p.m.
College Football Scoreboard — ESPN2, 10 p.m.
Inside College Football — CBS Sports Network, 11:30 p.m.
College Football Final — ESPN2, 1:30 a.m. (Sunday)

Noon
Rutgers at Cincinnati — Big East Network (Eamon McAnaney/David Diaz-Infante/Paul Carcaterra)

Indiana at Penn State — Big Ten Network (Kevin Kugler/Chris Martin/J Leman)

Temple at Army — CBS Sports Network (Ben Holden/Randy Cross/Cadet Dan Sprouse)

Towson at New Hampshire — Comcast SportsNet (Mid-Atlantic/Philadelphia)
Houston at Marshall — CSS/Comcast SportsNet (Bay Area/Chicago/Houston)/The Comcast Network

Iowa at Michigan — ESPN/ESPN 3D (Dave Pasch/Brian Griese/Jenn Brown)
Northwestern at Michigan State — ESPN2 (Bob Wischusen/Danny Kanell/Maria Taylor)
Florida State at Maryland — ESPNU (Tom Hart & John Congemi)
Kent State at Bowling Green — ESPN Plus (Greg Franke/Tom Cole)

Central Florida at Tulsa — Fox Sports Net (national)/WLVI/WDCA/KICU/Fox College Sports Central (Mike Gleason/Dave Lapham/Desmond Purcell)
Tennessee Tech at Austin Peay — Fox College Sports Pacific (Bob Belvin/Kevin Ingram)

Yale at Harvard — NBC Sports Network (Randy Moss/Ross Tucker/Carolyn Manno)

Arkansas at Mississippi State — SEC Network, 12:21 p.m. (Dave Neal/Andre Ware/Cara Capuano)
Western Carolina at Alabama — SEC Network, 12:21 p.m. (Mike Morgan/Chris Doering/Jill Montgomery)

12:30 p.m.
Virginia Tech at Boston College — ACC Network

1 p.m.
Lehigh at Lafayette — Fox College Sports Atlantic (Steve Degler/Mike Yadush/Troy Hein)

1:30 p.m.
Washington at Colorado — FX (Justin Kutcher/Eric Crouch/Darius Walker)

2 p.m.
2012 Florida Classic, Orlando, FL
Bethune-Cookman vs. Florida A&M — ESPN Classic (Mike Corey/Jay Walker)

3 p.m.
USC at UCLA — Fox (Gus Johnson/Charles Davis/Julie Alexandria)
South Florida at Miami — Fox Sports Net-regional (Arizona Plus/North Plus/South/Southwest Plus)/NESN/Sun Sports) (Rich Waltz/Keith Jones/Jenn Hildreth)

Washington State at Arizona State — Pac-12 Network (Kevin Calabro/Adam Archuleta/Yogi Roth)

3:30 p.m.
NC State at Clemson — ABC/ESPN2 (Mike Patrick/Ed Cunningham/Jeannine Edwards)
Ohio State at Wisconsin — ABC/ESPN2 (Joe Tessitore/Matt Millen/Quint Kessenich)

Minnesota at Nebraska — Big Ten Network (Eric Collins/Derek Rackley/Jon Jansen)
Purdue at lllinois — Big Ten Network (Tim Neverett/Glen Mason/Rebecca Haarlow)

Mississippi at LSU — CBS (Verne Lundquist/Gary Danielson/Tracy Wolfson)
Texas State at Navy — CBS Sports Network (Grant Boone/Todd Christensen/Sheehan Stanwich Burch)

SMU at Rice — CSS/Comcast SportsNet (Bay Area/Chicago/Houston/Mid-Atlantic Plus)

Duke at Georgia Tech — ESPNU (Anish Shroff/Dan Hawkins)

Texas Tech at Oklahoma State — Fox Sports Net (national)/WMCN/WDCA/KICU/Fox College Sports Central (Ron Thulin/Brian Baldinger/Jim Knox)

Wake Forest at Notre Dame — NBC (Tom Hammond/Mike Mayock/Alex Flanagan)
Colorado State at Boise State — NBC Sports Network (Paul Burmeister/Rod Woodson/Anthony Herron)

Montana State at Montana — Root Sports (Northwest/Rocky Mountain)/Audience Network (DirecTV)

6 p.m.
Cal-Poly at Northern Arizona — Fox College Sports Pacific (Mitch Strohman/Kevin Stephens/Reggie Eccleston)

7 p.m.
Tennessee at Vanderbilt — ESPN2 (Mark Jones/Brock Huard/Jessica Mendoza)
Syracuse at Missouri — ESPNU (Clay Matvick/Matt Stinchcomb/Allison Williams)

Oklahoma at West Virginia — Fox (Craig Bolerjack/Joel Klatt/Petros Papadakis)
Iowa State at Kansas — Fox Sports Net (national)/Fox College Sports Atlantic (Steve Physioc/JC Pearson/Laura McKeeman)

Old Dominion at James Madison — NBC Sports Network (Todd Harris/Blaine Fowler)

7:30 p.m.
Samford at Kentucky — CSS

8 p.m.
Stanford at Oregon — ABC (Brent Musburger/Kirk Herbstreit/Heather Cox)

UTEP at Southern Mississippi — CBS Sports Network (James Bates/Aaron Taylor/Lauren Gardner)

Kansas State at Baylor — ESPN (Brad Nessler/Todd Blackledge/Holly Rowe)

10 p.m.
Arizona at Utah — ESPNU (Joe Davis/Kelly Stouffer)

10:30 p.m.
BYU at San Jose State — ESPN2 (Beth Mowins/Joey Galloway/Kaylee Hartung)

Cal at Oregon State — Pac-12 Network (Ted Robinson/Glenn Parker/Ryan Nece)

Fox Sports Media Group’s College Football Games For Week 12 Including Announcing Assignments

Ok, we have the college football games that will be seen on the Fox Sports platforms this Saturday. Quite a few. Check them out.

College Football on FOX Advance Programming Schedule
November 17
All times Eastern unless otherwise indicated

DATE	TIME	GAME	OUTLET	Play by Play	Analyst	Sideline
Saturday, November 17	3:00 PM	USC at UCLA	FOX/FOX Deportes	Gus Johnson	Charles Davis	Julie Alexandria
Saturday, November 17	7:00 PM	Oklahoma at West Virginia	FOX	Craig Bolerjack	Joel Klatt	Petros Papadakis
Saturday, November 17	12:00 PM	Indiana at Penn State	BTN	Kevin Kugler	Chris Martin	J Leman
Saturday, November 17	12:00 PM	Tennessee Tech at Austin Peay	FCS Pacific	Bob Belvin	Kevin Ingram
Saturday, November 17	12:00 PM	UCF at Tulsa	FSN (National)	Mike Gleason	Dave Lapham	Desmond Purnell
Saturday, November 17	1:00 PM	Lehigh at Lafayette	FCS Atlantic	Steve Degler	Mike Yadush	Troy Hein
Saturday, November 17	1:30 PM	Washington at Colorado	FX	Justin Kutcher	Eric Crouch	Darius Walker
Saturday, November 17	3:00 PM	South Florida at Miami	FS South	Rich Waltz	Keith Jones	Jenn Hildreth
Saturday, November 17	3:30 PM	Minnesota at Nebraska	BTN	Eric Collins	Derek Rackley	Jon Jansen
Saturday, November 17	3:30 PM	Purdue at Illinois	BTN	Tim Neverett	Glen Mason	Rebecca Haarlow
Saturday, November 17	3:30 PM	Texas Tech at Oklahoma St.	FSN (National)	Ron Thulin	Brian Baldinger	Jim Knox
Saturday, November 17	6:00 PM	Cal Poly at Northern Arizona	FCS Pacific	Mitch Strohman	Kevin Stephens	Reggie Eccleston
Saturday, November 17	7:00 PM	Iowa St. at Kansas	FSN (National)	Steve Physioc	JC Pearson	Laura McKeeman

That will do it.

Breaking Out Some Monday Linkage

The last few days, I’ve been sick which limited the number of posts between Friday and Saturday. I’m still not feeling well, but I’ll be providing linkage and posts as long I’m physically able. To the links.

Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch talks with NFL Network’s Melissa Stark about returning to sports television after leaving in 2008 to become a full-time mom.

Don Banks of SI looks at how NFL teams are adjusting to a full season of Thursday Night Football.

John Ourand & Michael Smith from Sports Business Journal report that ESPN is close to nabbing the college football playoff for many years to come.

John catches up with outgoing Fox Sports Media Group Vice Chairman Ed Goren who helped launch the company in 1994.

Eric Fisher at SBJ notes how MLB Advanced Media kept operating after Hurricane Sandy wiped out power in the company’s headquarters.

Ed Sherman of The Sherman Report looks at an unusual Comcast SportsNet Chicago documentary which went to Cambodia to tell a compelling story.

Kurt Badenhausen from Forbes explains how ESPN is the cash engine that drives Disney.

Joe Levine of SportsGrid tells us that Fox NFL Sunday had some technical issues during one of its halftime updates.

Brian Steinberg at Advertising Age says Century 21 will return to advertising in the Super Bowl in February.

Phil Mushnick of the New York Post doesn’t understand the bubble screen.

Pete Dougherty at the Albany Times Union has NBC Sports Network’s college basketball announcing teams.

Don Laible talks with former WNBC-TV sports anchor Len Berman here and here.

Dave Zoren of the Delaware County Daily Times says Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia and The Comcast Network team up for almost 70 college basketball games this season (scroll down).

Jim Williams of the Washington Examiner talks about waking up with NFL AM.

The Charlotte Observer talks with CBS’ Jim Nantz.

Tom Jones of the Tampa Bay Times looks back at the weekend in sports television.

Matt Murschel of the Orlando Sentinel says a fourth sports radio station launches in the local market today.

Christine Lee of NBC Dallas says ESPN is teaming up with the Irving Chamber of Commerce to attract businesses to the local area.

David Barron from the Houston Chronicle has DirecTV’s CEO complaining about Comcast SportsNet Houston’s subscriber fees.

Mel Bracht at The Oklahoman reviews the TV productions of the Oklahoma and Oklahoma State games from Saturday.

John Vomhof, Jr. of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal says a Fox Sports North reporter is leaving for a similar position at Root Sports Pittsburgh.

Dusty Saunders of the Denver Post feels Dick Vitale is key to any college basketball season.

Patrick Finley of the Arizona Daily Star says the Pac-12 Conference will no longer have exposure issues now that with new TV contracts with ESPN, Fox, CBS and of course, the Pac-12 Network.

Tom Hoffarth of the Los Angeles Daily News has the SoCal sports calendar for this week.

Tom has the five things he learned from watching sports over the weekend.

Barry Petchesky of Deadspin notes that Minnesota Vikings QB Christan Ponder made a tongue-in-cheek comment about his girlfriend, ESPN’s Samantha Steele.

The Classic Sports TV and Media blog has a look at ABC’s Monday Night Football’s halftime highlights as narrated by the late, great Howard Cosell.

And that will do it for now.

College Football Viewing Picks For Week 11, 11/10/2012, All Times Eastern

Schedule Courtesy of Matt’s College Sports

Pregame & Studio Shows
College GameDay live on board the USS San Diego — ESPNU, 9 a.m./ESPN, 10 a.m.
BTN Football Pregame — Big Ten Network, 11 a.m.
ACC Blitz — ACC Network, noon
BTN Football Postgame — Big Ten Network, 3 p.m.
College Football Scoreboard — ESPN, 3 p.m.
College Football Scoreboard — ESPN2, 3 p.m.
Inside College Football — CBS Sports Network, 4 p.m.
The Final Drive — Big Ten Network, 6:30 p.m.
College Football Scoreboard — ESPN, 6:30 p.m.
College Football Scoreboard — ESPN2, 6:30 p.m.
Inside College Football — CBS Sports Network, 8:30 p.m.
College Football Scoreboard — ESPN, 10 p.m.
College Football Scoreboard — ESPN2, 10 p.m.
Inside College Football — CBS Sports Network, 11:30 p.m.
College Football Final — ESPN2, 1:30 a.m. (Sunday)

noon
Louisville at Syracuse — ABC (Bob Wischusen/Danny Kanell/Maria Taylor)
Miami at Virginia — ABC (Tom Hart/John Congemi)

Cincinnati at Temple — Big East Network (Eamon McAnaney/David Diaz-Infante/Paul Carcaterra)

Purdue at Iowa — Big Ten Network (Josh Lewin/Chris Martin/J Leman)

Arkansas at South Carolina — CBS (Tim Brando/Steve Beuerlein/Marty Snider)

William & Mary at Old Dominion — Comcast SportsNet (Bay Area/Houston/Mid-Atlantic/New England/Philadelphia)

Northwestern at Michigan — ESPN/ESPN 3D (Dave Pasch/Brian Griese/Jenn Brown)
Wisconsin at Indiana — ESPN2 (Beth Mowins/Joey Galloway/Niki Noto)
Army at Rutgers — ESPNU (Joe Beninati/Peter Najarian/George Smith)

Kansas at Texas Tech — Fox Sports Net (national)/Fox College Sports Central/WLVI/KICU (Joe Myers/Brian Baldinger/Jim Knox)
St. Francis (PA) at Monmouth — Fox College Sports Atlantic (Paul Dottino/Steve Levy)
Southeast Missouri State at Eastern Illinois — Fox College Sports Pacific (Bob Belvin/Kevin Ingram)

Iowa State at Texas — Longhorn Network (Mike Patrick/Ed Cunningham/Jeannine Edwards)/ABC (Iowa only) (Mark Neely/Ray Bentley)

Williams at Amherst — NESN (Tom Caron/Steve DeOssie/Katy Fitzpatrick)

Harvard at Penn — NBC Sports Network (Randy Moss/Ross Tucker/Marshall Harris)

Louisiana-Lafayette at Florida — SEC Network, 12:21 p.m. (Mike Morgan/Chris Doering)
Missouri at Tennessee — SEC Network, 12:21 p.m. (Dave Ware/Andre Ware/Cara Capuano)

Princeton at Yale — YES

12:30 p.m.
Georgia Tech at North Carolina — ACC Network

Colgate at Lehigh — CBS Sports Network (Dave Ryan/Todd Christensen/Evan Washburn)

1:30 p.m.
Colorado at Arizona — FX (Justin Kutcher/Eric Crouch/Darius Walker)

3 p.m.
Oregon State at Stanford — Fox (Craig Bolerjack/Joel Klatt/Petros Papadakis)
Wake Forest at NC State — Fox Sports Net (regional) (North Plus/South/Southwest Plus/Prime Ticket)/Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic/NESN (Mike Hogewood/Keith Jones/Jenn Hildreth)

Arizona State at USC — Pac-12 Network (Ted Robinson/Glenn Parker/Ryan Nece)

3:30 p.m.
Penn State at Nebraska — ABC/ESPN2 (Sean McDonough/Chris Spielman/Quint Kessenich)
West Virginia at Oklahoma State — ABC/ESPN2 (Dave Lamont/Kelly Stouffer)

Minnesota at Illinois — Big Ten Network (Eric Collins/Derek Rackley/Jon Jansen)

Texas A&M at Missouri — CBS (Verne Lundquist/Gary Danielson/Tracy Wolfson)

Maryland at Clemson — ESPNU (Anish Shroff/Dan Hawkins)

Baylor at Oklahoma — Fox Sports Net (national)/Fox College Sports Pacific/WLVI/WMCN/WDCA/KICU (Steve Physioc/JC Pearson/Laura McKeeman)
South Dakota State at North Dakota State — Fox College Sports Central (Brian Shawn/Lee Timmerman/Kevin Feeney)

Air Force at San Diego State — NBC Sports Network (Ari Wolfe/Blaine Fowler)

Portland State at Montana State — Root Sports (Northwest/Rocky Mountain)/Audience Network (DirecTV)

5 p.m.
Tulsa at Houston — CBS Sports Network (James Bates/Aaron Talor/Lauren Gardner)

7 p.m.
Mississippi State at LSU — ESPN (Brad Nessler/Todd Blackledge/Holly Rowe)
Georgia at Auburn — ESPN2 (Mark Jones/Brock Huard/Allison Williams)
Vanderbilt at Mississippi — ESPNU (Clay Matvick/Matt Stinchcomb/Angela Mallen)

Kansas State at TCU — Fox (Gus Johnson/Charles Davis/Julie Alexandria)
Southern Mississippi at SMU — Fox Sports Net (national)/Fox College Sports Central (Ron Thulin/Dave Lapham/Desmond Purnell)
Central Florida at UTEP — Fox College Sports Atlantic (Mike Gleason/Ben Leber/Lesley McCaslin)

Louisiana Tech at Texas State — Longhorn Network (Dave Armstrong/Ray Bentley — 2 games in one day!)

Hawaii at Boise State — NBC Sports Network (Paul Bermeister/Rod Woodson)

8 p.m.
Notre Dame at Boston College — ABC (Brent Musburger/Kirk Herbstreit/Heather Cox)

10:15 p.m.
Idaho at BYU — ESPNU (Joe Davis/Jay Walker)

10:30 p.m.
Oregon at Cal — ESPN (Joe Tessitore/Matt Millen/Samantha Steele)
UCLA at Washington State — ESPN2 (Adam Amin/Tom Luginbill/Shelley Smith)

Utah at Washington — Pac-12 Network (Kevin Calabro/Adam Archuleta/Yogi Roth)

“Battle on the Midway” Rescheduled For Sunday, November 11

Due to weather concerns, the basketball season opener for San Diego State and Syracuse on board the USS Midway Museum Aircraft Carrier in San Diego has to be rescheduled. The game was originally slated for this Friday, however, expected inclement weather forced organizers to move it to Sunday, November 11 at 4 p.m. ET.

Fox Sports San Diego will still be the home of the game with Dick Enberg calling the game, Steve Kerr on the analysis and Erin Andrews on the sidelines.

Fox Sports Net will distribute the show nationally to various FSN affiliates and to other regional sports networks across the country that don’t have FSN.

We have details from Fox Sports.

FOX SPORTS/“BATTLE ON THE MIDWAY” TV COVERAGE UPDATE

#9 Syracuse vs. #20 San Diego State Play Aboard the USS Midway Aircraft Carrier in San Diego
Game Moved to Sunday, Nov. 11 Due to Weather Concerns
FOX Sports San Diego to Televise the “Battle on the Midway” Locally
FOX Sports Networks to Distribute the Game Nationally
Channels Carrying the Game include FSN, FOX College Sports, MSG Plus, MASN2, and Select Comcast and Root Sports Networks

San Diego – FOX Sports Networks today released updated national television distribution for “Battle on the Midway,” which has been moved from Friday, November 9, to Sunday, November 11, because of weather concerns.

The game is now scheduled for Sunday at 4 p.m. ET / 1 p.m. PT.

FOX Sports San Diego will produce the game and televise it locally, while FOX Sports Networks (FSN) will distribute the game to its affiliates across the country.  Pregame coverage is set to begin at 3 p.m. ET / noon PT.

Featuring #9 Syracuse Orange vs. #20 San Diego State Aztecs playing aboard the flight deck of the historic USS Midway aircraft carrier anchored in San Diego Harbor, “Battle on the Midway “ will be the 2012-’13 season opener for both teams.

“We remain committed to producing and televising this great match-up to viewers in San Diego and to college basketball fans across the country,” said Henry Ford, senior vice president and general manager, FOX Sports San Diego.  “The players’ safety and the integrity of the game are the primary concerns, so we’re more than happy to work with San Diego State and Syracuse to accommodate the schedule change.”

Networks and affiliates planning to televise the “Battle on the Midway” include:

FOX Sports Networks

• FOX Sports San Diego
• FOX College Sports
• FOX Sports Arizona
• FOX Sports Detroit
• FOX Sports Midwest
• FOX Sports North
• FOX Sports Ohio
• FOX Sports West
• FOX Sports South
• FOX Sports Southwest
• FOX Sports Wisconsin

Affiliates

• Comcast Bay Area
• Comcast Chicago
• Comcast Philadelphia
• MASN2
• MSG Plus
• NESNplus
• Root Sports Northwest
• Root Sports Pittsburgh
• Root Sports Rocky Mountain

That’s all.