NEW YORK – October 17, 2012 – The NBC Sports Network will televise more than 50 college basketball games this season — the most in its history — featuring more than 40 different schools. The majority of the games and teams will come from the Atlantic 10, Mountain West, Colonial Athletic Association and Ivy League conferences. The 2012-13 NBC Sports Network schedule also includes: two tip-off classics from aircraft carriers – the Carrier Classic and Navy and Marines Corps Classic; an eight-team pre-season tournament, the Battle 4 Atlantis; and the Semifinals and Final of the Colonial Athletic Association’s conference tournament.
NBC Sports Network’s 2012-13 college basketball coverage begins on Friday, Nov. 9 with a live triple-header. In the women’s Carrier Classic match-up at 4 p.m., last year’s National Championship runner-up Notre Dame takes on Ohio State, live from the deck of the USS Yorktown in Charleston, S.C. The men’s game follows at 7 p.m. ET, when 2012 Final Four participant Ohio State takes on Marquette, who advanced to last year’s Sweet 16. The night of college basketball programming concludes at 9 p.m. ET, with Georgetown facing Florida, an Elite Eight team last year, in the Navy–Marine Corps Classic, live from the deck of the USS Bataan in Jacksonville, Fla.
On November 22 at 7 p.m. ET, NBC Sports Network will begin its coverage of the eight-team Battle 4 Atlantis holiday tournament with a top-ranked matchup between VCU and Memphis. Then at 9:30 p.m. ET, perennial power Louisville takes on Northern Iowa. NBC Sports Network will televise the Battle 4 Atlantis Semifinals on Nov. 23 and the Battle 4 Atlantis Final on Nov. 24.
NBC Sports Network will wrap up its college basketball coverage on March 10-11 with the CAA Conference Semifinals and Championship Game.
Following is the NBC Sports Network 2012-13 college basketball schedule (all times ET):
Date |
Game |
Time (ET) |
Fri., Nov. 9 |
Notre Dame vs. Ohio State (women) |
4 p.m. * |
Fri., Nov. 9 |
Ohio State vs. Marquette |
7 p.m. * |
Fri., Nov. 9 |
Georgetown vs. Florida |
9 p.m. ** |
Thurs., Nov. 22 |
Memphis vs. VCU |
7 p.m. *** |
Thurs., Nov. 22 |
Louisville vs. Northern Iowa |
9 p.m. *** |
Fri., Nov. 23 |
Battle 4 Atlantis |
7 p.m. *** |
Fri., Nov. 23 |
Battle 4 Atlantis |
9 p.m. *** |
Sat., Nov. 24 |
Battle 4 Atlantis |
7 p.m. *** |
Sat., Nov. 24 |
Battle 4 Atlantis |
9 p.m. *** |
Sat., Dec. 8 |
Northern Iowa at George Mason |
6 p.m. |
Sat., Dec. 8 |
Villanova at Penn |
8 p.m. |
Fri., Dec. 28 |
Providence at Brown |
7 p.m. |
Thurs., Jan. 3 |
Northeastern at George Mason |
7 p.m. |
Sat., Jan. 5 |
Lehigh at VCU |
5 p.m. |
Sun., Jan. 6 |
Florida at Yale |
5:30 p.m. |
Thurs., Jan. 10 |
Old Dominion at George Mason |
7 p.m. |
Sat., Jan. 12 |
Butler at Dayton |
2 p.m. |
Sat., Jan. 12 |
Drexel at James Madison |
4 p.m. |
Sat., Jan. 12 |
Penn at Princeton |
6 p.m. |
Sat., Jan. 12 |
Colorado State at San Diego State |
8 p.m. |
Sat., Jan 19 |
Columbia at Cornell |
3 p.m. |
Sat., Jan. 19 |
Hofstra at George Mason |
5 p.m. |
Sat., Jan. 19 |
UNLV at Colorado State |
7 p.m. |
Sat., Jan 26 |
Dartmouth at Harvard |
2 p.m. |
Sat., Jan. 26 |
New Mexico at San Diego State |
4 p.m. |
Mon., Jan. 28 |
Delaware at Drexel |
7 p.m. |
Thurs., Jan. 31 |
Drexel at George Mason |
7 p.m. |
Sat., Feb. 2 |
Dayton at Saint Louis |
2 p.m. |
Sat., Feb. 2 |
Columbia at Princeton |
6 p.m. |
Sat., Feb. 2 |
Nevada at New Mexico |
8 p.m. |
Mon., Feb. 4 |
George Mason at Old Dominion |
7 p.m. |
Thurs., Feb. 7 |
Old Dominion at Drexel |
7 p.m. |
Sat., Feb. 9 |
New Mexico at UNLV |
9 p.m. |
Mon., Feb. 11 |
Old Dominion at Delaware |
7 p.m. |
Sat., Feb. 16 |
Saint Joseph’s at La Salle |
1 p.m. |
Sat., Feb. 16 |
Princeton at Harvard |
7 p.m. |
Sat., Feb. 16 |
San Diego State at UNLV |
9 p.m. |
Mon., Feb. 18 |
Hofstra at Drexel |
7 p.m. |
Thurs., Feb. 21 |
Drexel at Delaware |
7 p.m. |
Sat., Feb. 23 |
New Mexico at Colorado State |
4 p.m. |
Sat., Feb. 23 |
Nevada at San Diego State |
6 p.m. |
Thurs., Feb. 28 |
Drexel at Old Dominion |
7 p.m. |
Sat., March 2 |
George Mason at Delaware |
2 p.m. |
Sat., March 2 |
UNLV at Nevada |
4 p.m. |
Sat., March 2 |
Harvard at Penn |
6 p.m. |
Thurs., March 7 |
Butler at Massachusetts |
7 p.m. |
Sat., March 9 |
La Salle at Saint Louis |
1:30 p.m. |
Sat., March 9 |
San Diego State at Boise State |
3:30 p.m. |
Sat., March 9 |
Cornell at Harvard |
5:30 p.m. |
Sun., March 10 |
CAA Conference Semifinal Game # 1 |
2:00 p.m. |
Sun., March 10 |
CAA Conference Semifinal Game # 2 |
4:30 p.m. |
Mon., March 11 |
CAA Conference Championship Game |
7 p.m. |
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*Carrier Classic
**Navy-Marine Corps Classic
*** Battle 4 Atlantis
–NBC Sports Group– |