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ESPN College Basketball (15 P) Pages in category "College basketball on television in the United States" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total.
ESPN College Basketball is a blanket title used for presentations of college basketball on ESPN and its family of networks (including ABC since 2006). Its coverage focuses primarily on competition in NCAA Division I , holding broadcast rights to games from each major conference, and a number of mid-major conferences.
ESPN has been airing regular-season games since 1980, ESPN2 since 1993, and ESPNU since 2005. College basketball has been a staple for nearly the whole history of ESPN. Scotty Connal, then-vice president of the all-sports network in Bristol, Conn., offered Dick Vitale a position, shortly after being fired from the Detroit Pistons. The coverage ...
ESPN's single network coverage garnered a 3.5 rating, the network's highest-rated men's college basketball game in more than four years (Maryland at Duke posted a 3.5 in January 2002). ESPN2's "Above the Rim" coverage generated a 0.7 rating, 40% higher than the network's per-game season average.
Beginning in 1996 after ESPN’s consolidation of Creative Sports (which ESPN owned since 1994 [3]) and OCC Sports (acquired from Ohlmeyer Communication Company), ESPN Plus (also known as ESPN Regional Television) assumed syndication rights to Big 12 Conference men’s basketball games after the Big 8 Conference and the Southwest Conference merged to create the Big 12.
ESPN. CLE 47-10. BOS 41-16. Fri Feb 28, 7:30 PM EST. KATU. ... Arizona apologizes to BYU for ‘unacceptable chant’ from fans after college basketball defeat. ... USA TODAY Sports 3 hours ago
The ESPN family of networks televised 20 women's games including 13 title games. On the men's side, the ESPN networks televised 63 games, from 27 D-I conferences including 24 title games and a D-II conference title. [11] In 2013, ESPN aired its final broadcast of the Big East men's basketball tournament after 18
ABC first broadcast college basketball games in 1962, when the network aired the NCAA Championship Game on a day-behind delayed basis, as part of its Wide World of Sports anthology series. On December 15, 1973, ABC aired what is considered to be the first [ 2 ] telecast of a regular season college basketball game by a major broadcast network.