ESPN unveils television schedule for college basketball Championship Week
If you’re a college basketball fan and want to watch conference tournaments throughout the next week or so, ESPN is the go-to network for you.
As announced Monday by ESPN’s Press Room, the network will again be broadcasting many college basketball conference tournaments as part of their “Champ Week” – which is set to begin this Friday and run through Sunday, March 13, leading right up to the NCAA Tournament Selection Show.
As ESPN notes in its press release, “‘Champ Week’ will include more than 470 hours of men’s college basketball programming across ESPN platforms,” which will provide college basketball fans with plenty of games to watch leading up to the NCAA Tournament.
According to ESPN, the network will broadcast the entirety of the AAC, ACC, Big 12 and SEC Tournaments on its channels, while it’ll also present a bulk of conference tournament championship games on Saturday, March 12 – broadcasting the American East (ESPN2), MEAC (ESPN2), Metro Atlantic (ESPNU), Big 12 (ESPN), SWAC (ESPNU), Mid-American (ESPN2), Big Sky (ESPNU), ACC (ESPN), Southland (ESPN2), Western Athletic (ESPNU) and Big West (ESPN2) title games.
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In addition to all of those broadcasts, the network’s ESPN+ subscription service will also be a part of conference tournament action – streaming more than 150 games from 19 conferences: American East, A10, ASUN, Big Sky, Big South, Big West, Conference USA, Horizon League, Metro Atlantic, Mid-American, MEAC, Missouri Valley, Ohio Valley, Patriot League, Summit League, Sun Belt, Southern, Southland, SWAC and Western Athletic.
College GameDay will be a part of ESPN’s coverage
ESPN’s College GameDay show will be a part of the network’s broadcast coverage of “Champ Week,” as the must-watched show with Rece Davis, Jay Bilas, LaPhonso Ellis and Seth Greenberg will be live from the ACC Tournament at the Barclay’s Center in Brooklyn, New York, beginning Thursday, March 10.
While College GameDay‘s broadcasts from the ACC Tournament will start March 10, the show will also have three special edition broadcasts on March 12 ahead of the ACC championship game.