ESPN’s College Basketball For This Weekend

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ESPN tells us that there’s going to be plenty of college basketball on the family of networks starting on Thursday. You can count the games if you wish. In addition, College GameDay will be live from the University of Kansas for the interstate and inter Big 12 Conference showdown between Kansas and Kansas State.

Men’s College Basketball: College GameDay at No. 6 Kansas; Telecasts of No. 1 Ohio State and No. 2 Pitt

ESPN’s men’s college basketball schedule includes College GameDay at No. 6 Kansas for an intrastate showdown against Kansas State (televised Saturday, Jan. 29, at 7 p.m. on ESPN). The morning edition of College GameDay is aired at 10 a.m. on ESPNU and continues on ESPN at 11 a.m. while the one-hour evening edition this week will be televised at 6 p.m. on ESPN. The show is hosted by Rece Davis with analysts Jay Bilas, Hubert Davis and Digger Phelps.

The schedule Saturday, Jan. 29, includes telecasts of five of the top 10 teams in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll across ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU, highlighted by two games pitting ranked teams against each other: No. 1 Ohio State (at Northwestern at 6 p.m.) and No. 2 Pittsburgh (at Rutgers at 8 p.m.) on ESPN2; No. 7 Villanova (against No. 20 Georgetown at noon) on ESPN; and No. 8 Texas (against No. 13 Missouri at 9 p.m.) and No. 10 Syracuse (at Marquette at 3 p.m.) on ESPNU.

Date	Time (ET)	Game / Commentators	Network
Thu, Jan 27	7 p.m.	Michigan at Michigan State Bob Wischusen & Stephen Bardo	ESPN / ESPN3.com
		No. 22 Vanderbilt at Mississippi State Brad Nessler & Mark Gottfried	ESPN2 / ESPN3.com
		Hofstra at Virginia Commonwealth Scott Graham & Tim O’Toole	ESPNU
	9 p.m.	UCLA at Arizona Rece Davis & Jay Bilas	ESPN2 / ESPN3.com
		DePaul at South Florida Rich Hollenberg & Adrian Branch	ESPNU
	11 p.m.	No. 24 St. Mary’s (CA) at Gonzaga Dave Flemming & Sean Farnham	ESPN2 / ESPN3.com
Fri, Jan 28	7 p.m.	Niagara at Canisius Doug Sherman & Dereck Whittenburg	ESPNU
	8 p.m.	Wright State at Green Bay TBA	ESPN3.com
	9 p.m.	Detroit at Milwaukee Jim Barbar & Dave Kaplan	ESPNU
Sat, Jan 29	11 a.m.	Temple vs. St. Joseph’s (Philadelphia) Justin Kutcher & Dickey Simpkins	ESPNU
	Noon	No. 20 Georgetown at No. 7 Villanova Dave Pasch & Doris Burke	ESPN / ESPN3.com
		Xavier at Richmond Marc Kestecher & LaPhonso Ellis	ESPN2 / ESPN3.com
	1 p.m.	Norfolk State at Morgan State Anthony Calhoun & Stan Lewter	ESPNU
	2 p.m.	North Carolina State at North Carolina Mike Patrick & Len Elmore	ESPN / ESPN3.com
		Bradley at Wichita State Bob Wischusen & Stephen Bardo	ESPN2 / ESPN3.com
	3 p.m.	No. 10 Syracuse at Marquette Mark Jones & Fran Fraschilla	ESPNU
	4 p.m.	Georgia at No. 16 Kentucky Brad Nessler & Jimmy Dykes	ESPN / ESPN3.com
	5 p.m.	Towson at Old Dominion Scott Graham & Mark Adams	ESPNU
	6 p.m.	No. 1 Ohio State at Northwestern Dave O’Brien & Dan Dakich	ESPN2 / ESPN3.com
	7 p.m.	Kansas State at No. 6 Kansas Dan Shulman, Dick Vitale & Erin Andrews	ESPN / ESPN3.com
		No. 24 St. Mary’s (CA) at Portland Mark Neely & Tim Welsh	ESPNU
	8 p.m.	No. 2 Pittsburgh at Rutgers Beth Mowins & Mike Kelley	ESPN2 / ESPN3.com
	9 p.m.	No. 13 Missouri at No. 8 Texas Dan McLaughlin & Sean Farnham	ESPNU
Sun, Jan 30	6 p.m.	Central Michigan at Akron TBA & Mark Adams	ESPNU
	8 p.m.	Northern Iowa at Missouri State Dan McLaughlin & Mac McCausland	ESPNU

That’s it.

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