Bio

Andy Katz has been a journalist for over three decades across the country at major newspapers, television networks and across digital platforms. Katz is a lead basketball analyst for the Big Ten Network and appears across BTN’s social media channels and as a national correspondent for all NCAA digital platforms.

Katz spent 18 years at ESPN where he served as a national college basketball reporter, a backup host for the critically acclaimed Outside the Lines news program and the creator of Baracketology, doing an NCAA Tournament bracket with President Obama for all eight years of his presidency. Prior to his arrival at ESPN, Katz spent nine years at two newspapers – the Fresno Bee and the Albuquerque Journal.

Katz attended the University of Wisconsin from 1986-90, where he was the youngest sports editor at the Daily Cardinal as a first-semester sophomore, worked for WIBA-radio, the Wisconsin State Journal and, as a senior, the Milwaukee Journal.

Katz has been married to Denise Padilla since 1994 and the couple have two children, Lucia, a junior at Northwestern, and Salvador, a senior at Loomis Chaffee and a member of the Duke class of 2027.