Are you properly prepared for the amount of college basketball you can stuff into your eye holes today?

I wasn’t prepared to put together the table at the bottom of the page, let me tell you what. I’m going along, I’m typing, and all of a sudden, I realize I’m still in the 1pm Central time starts and we’re shooting right on past the 15th nationally televised game of the day. We have a whopping FORTY-THREE games of men’s basketball on national TV today. I’m pretty sure there would be even more if it wasn’t for the fact that Fox is carrying NFL playoff coverage from 2pm to 7pm. The flip side of that is because the late NFL game today is on Prime Video, there’s not more regular broadcast space taken up by that game.

In any case, 18 of the 43 games on TV today have at least one ranked team involved. Only one of those is a ranked on ranked game, and that’s coming up at 1pm Central today when #24 SMU visits #6 Duke. By default, I suppose that’s our Game Of The Day. I can make an argument for #1 Arizona on the road against TCU just because it’s the #1 team in the country on the road.

Arizona is one of just three top 10 teams on the road today, and the other two are at the opposite ends of the timeline. #10 Nebraska visits Indiana in the 11am window — did you ever think you would live in a world where the Huskers would be the top 10 team when those two play? — and #9 BYU visits in-state rival Utah waaaay down at 9pm tonight. Along the way, we’ve got five more ranked teams on the road against unranked foes as well, so there’s a pretty strong possibility for an upset or two at some point today.

As you might expect, there’s a bunch of streaming only options, including #7 Houston visiting Baylor on Peacock in a game that KenPom.com declares to be the most potentially thrilling game of the day. There are not any women’s basketball games on national TV today, but there are two ranked teams playing on the road against unranked opponents with both contests popping up on ESPN+ if you’re so inclined. Said opponents are both under .500 on the year, so maaaaaaybe not? Up to you.

Here’s the full national television schedule, with all times Central, as always.