Are you properly prepared for the amount of college basketball you can stuff into your eye holes today?<\/p>\n
I wasn\u2019t prepared to put together the table at the bottom of the page, let me tell you what. I\u2019m going along, I\u2019m typing, and all of a sudden, I realize I\u2019m still in the 1pm Central time starts and we\u2019re shooting right on past the 15th nationally televised game of the day. We have a whopping FORTY-THREE games of men\u2019s basketball on national TV today. I\u2019m pretty sure there would be even more if it wasn\u2019t 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\u2019s not more regular broadcast space taken up by that game.<\/p>\n
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\u2019s coming up at 1pm Central today when #24 SMU visits #6 Duke. By default, I suppose that\u2019s our Game Of The Day. I can make an argument for #1 Arizona on the road against TCU just because it\u2019s the #1 team in the country on the road.<\/p>\n
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 \u2014 did you ever think you would live in a world where the Huskers would be the top 10 team when those two play? \u2014 and #9 BYU visits in-state rival Utah waaaay down at 9pm tonight. Along the way, we\u2019ve got five more ranked teams on the road against unranked foes as well, so there\u2019s a pretty strong possibility for an upset or two at some point today.<\/p>\n
As you might expect, there\u2019s 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\u2019s 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\u2019re so inclined. Said opponents are both under .500 on the year, so maaaaaaybe not? Up to you.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the full national television schedule, with all times Central, as always.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Are you properly prepared for the amount of college basketball you can stuff into your eye holes today?…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,217,9023,231,772,1544],"class_list":{"0":"post-529914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-marquette-basketball","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-basketball","13":"tag-ncaab"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115877665348235611","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}