Last week was the college football conference championships.
Next week is the first round of the college football playoffs.
This week? Not so much with the college football to put on television, so there
are 34 nationally televised college basketball games to be watched! There’s 31 men’s games and three women’s games, and two of the women’s games are kind of the biggest games of the day.
Let’s hit those two first. The biggest women’s game of the day is #1 UConn visiting #16 USC this evening. There’s also #9 Oklahoma and #23 Oklahoma State squaring off in a neutral site game in the OKC Thunder arena. The neat part about that? It’s actually a Bedlam Doubleheader, as the men’s basketball teams play in the front half, starting three hours earlier. The weird part? Fox gets the men’s game, and ESPNU gets the women’s game. Have fun fighting about camera setups, everyone!
The third women’s game is part of a men’s/women’s doubleheader event too. LSU is playing host-ish down in New Orleans with Kim Mulkey’s #5 ranked Tigers playing Louisiana Tech before SMU comes to town to face Matt McMahon’s Tigers. That one gets an ESPNU/SEC Network split.
The three women’s games on TV today are three of the 15 games involving at least one ranked team. Over on the men’s side of things, we get #17 Arkansas vs #16 Texas Tech in Dallas to start off the ranked vs ranked battles for the day. The only other two ranked vs ranked games aren’t until deep into the night. #1 Arizona goes to Birmingham to tangle with #12 Alabama at 8:30pm Central before #25 UCLA and #8 Gonzaga duke it out in Seattle starting at 10:30pm Central. Moderate your caffeine intake, everyone.
There’s a ton more basketball available to be watched today, not least of all Marquette’s visit to #6 Purdue, but those are streaming-only type broadcasts.
Here’s the full national television broadcast schedule for the day! All times Central, of course.
