College basketball on TV
Thursday, March 5 — 8 on national and conference TV, 32 streaming or regional, 6 with no network listed yet. Tip times are Eastern.
Streaming and regional 32 games
No grid row for these. ESPN+ alone carried 3,420 of last season's 6,043 televised games — as a lane it is dozens deep — and the regional networks under it average about one game a night each.
- FinalDrake at S Illinois67–63
- FinalSacred Heart at Iona91–80
- FinalJames Madison at Southern Miss80–86
- FinalLouisiana Tech at Liberty76–71
- FinalMTSU at FIU73–67
- FinalIndiana St at Valparaiso62–63
- FinalE Illinois at UT Martin63–66
- FinalBucknell at Navy69–74
- FinalAmerican at Boston U73–75
- FinalLoyola MD at Colgate77–90
- FinalHoly Cross at Lehigh66–69
- FinalWestern KY at Missouri St74–87
- FinalUT Arlington at Tarleton St65–60
- FinalHoward at Norfolk St84–76
- FinalUtah Valley at Southern Utah92–88
- FinalCoppin St at Morgan St66–70
- FinalManhattan at Fairfield60–71
- FinalGA Southern at Arkansas St80–77
- FinalJax State at New Mexico St75–77
- FinalPepperdine at Portland68–77
- FinalCSU Northridge at Bakersfield86–84
- FinalEvansville at Northern Iowa59–68
- FinalLindenwood at SE Missouri66–68
- FinalAbilene Chrstn at CA Baptist48–87
- FinalUC San Diego at Fullerton71–75
- FinalCal Poly at UC Irvine85–107
- FinalUC Davis at Long Beach St76–70
- FinalSan Diego at LMU66–62
- FinalUC Riverside at Hawai'i74–93
6 games have no network listed yet. ESPN assigns most college broadcasts close to tip — last season 95.6% of games ended up with one, so these fill in rather than staying blank.
The grid is national and conference television — ESPN and its siblings, CBS and CBS Sports Network, Fox and FS1, the Big Ten, SEC, ACC and Mountain West channels. Blocks are placed on the clock rather than in columns, so a 6:30 tip sits where 6:30 is, and a two-hour window is two hours wide.
Everything else is listed underneath instead of getting its own lane, and that's two different things sharing a section. ESPN+ carried 3,420 of last season's 6,043 televised games — as a grid row it would be dozens deep, which is a column rather than a schedule. The regional networks below it are real television, just not national: the network-heaviest night we hold lists 26 separate linear channels, and ten of them get a line here instead of a lane.
Where two ranked teams meet, the block is gold; one ranked team turns it cyan. Ranks come from the AP Top 25 — the full poll and the Coaches Poll are their own page, and the schedule has every game whether it's on television or not.