Four Conference Champions Punch NCAA Tickets on FOX Sports 1
New York – Four teams punch their NCAA Tournament tickets on FOX Sports 1, as FOX Sports presents coverage of the BIG EAST and Conference USA men’s and BIG EAST and Big 12 women’s basketball tournaments over nine exciting days from Friday, March 6 to Saturday, March 14. FOX Sports 1, for the second consecutive year, is the exclusive home for the entire BIG EAST Men’s Basketball Tournament from Madison Square Garden in New York City, including on-site studio coverage throughout the event.
The incomparable duo of play-by-play announcer Gus Johnson and analyst Bill Raftery call four BIG EAST Tournament first-round and quarterfinal games before Raftery takes the microphone in Chicago for the Big Ten Tournament. Proving that he is truly “Mr. March,” Raftery calls conference tournament games on three different networks this year, sitting behind the mic for the Big Ten semifinals and final for CBS in addition to his first-round and quarterfinal BIG EAST games on FOX Sports 1 and two quarterfinal games on Big Ten Network.
Former All-American Jim Jackson joins Johnson to call the BIG EAST semifinals and final, while Justin Kutcher and Donny Marshall call a pair of quarterfinals on the afternoon of Thursday, March 12, and Molly McGrath serves as sideline reporter for the entire tournament. The BIG EAST Men’s Basketball Tournament presented by New York Life tips off Wednesday, March 11, with a pair of first-round games (7:00 PM ET and 9:30 PM ET), and concludes Saturday, March 14 with the championship final (8:00 PM ET). Championship game coverage begins with a one-hour edition of the FOX SPORTS 1 COLLEGE HOOPS TIP-OFF pregame show at 7:00 PM ET. Rob Stone hosts studio coverage all week long at Madison Square Garden and is joined by analysts Kevin O’Neill, Donny Marshall and Tarik Turner.
Throughout its coverage of the BIG EAST Men’s Basketball Tournament, FOX Sports has exclusive behind-the-scenes access to the Providence Friars, as head coach Ed Cooley and his squad look to defend their BIG EAST Tournament title. This exclusive content airs before or between games each night for as long as the Friars advance in the bracket. Click HERE to see footage from last year’s tournament, when FOX Sports went behind-the-scenes with Creighton.
FOX Sports 1, FOX Sports 2 and the BIG EAST Digital Network, available to all fans on FOX Sports GO, present exclusive coverage of the entire BIG EAST Women’s Basketball Tournament presented by New York Life, held Saturday-Tuesday, March 7-10, at Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Ill. First-round games can be seen on the BIG EAST Digital Network, via FOX Sports GO, while quarterfinals and the second semifinal are televised on FOX Sports 2. Monday’s first semifinal and Tuesday’s championship game appear on FOX Sports 1.
FOX Sports also presents coverage of the Big 12 Women’s Basketball Tournament, with games airing on FOX College Sports (first-round), FOX Sports Regional Networks (quarterfinals) and FOX Sports 1 (semifinals and final) from Friday, March 6-Monday, March 9. FOX Sports 1 also has the championship game of the Conference USA Men’s Basketball Tournament on Saturday, March 14 (3:30 PM ET), leading into pregame coverage of the BIG EAST men’s finale.
College basketball games televised on FOX Sports 1, FOX Sports 2, FOX Sports Regional Networks and FOX College Sports are live-streamed on FOX Sports GO through participating pay-TV providers. Games on the BIG EAST Digital Network are available to all fans on FOX Sports GO. For more information, including news and updates throughout March Madness, visit FOXSports.com and follow @FOXSports1 on Twitter.
The full schedule of college basketball conference tournament programming across the FOX Sports family of networks, including broadcaster information, can be found below.
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* all games live-streamed on FOX Sports GO
