Your ESPN college basketball Tip-Off Marathon announcing schedule
One of the coolest things ESPN does every year is its 24 hour college basketball Tip-Off Marathon. For college basketball fanatics, it's a unique way to start the season with 24 straight hours of basketball on ESPN networks starting at midnight tonight and running through Tuesday. For insomniacs, at least it gives you some variety of programming options at 4 AM to go along with infomercials and House reruns. This year's slate kicks off with West Virginia at Gonzaga and ends with a doubleheader from the Champions Classic - Michigan State vs Kansas and Duke vs Kentucky. It'll also be our first chance to hear Bob Knight call a Kentucky game as he joins Dan Shulman and Dick Vitale on the call...
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Tue, Nov 13 |
Midnight |
Tip-Off Marathon: Old Spice Classic: West Virginia at No. 21 Gonzaga Dave Pasch & Sean Farnham |
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2 a.m. |
Tip-Off Marathon: Davidson at New Mexico Dave Flemming & Miles Simon |
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4 a.m. |
Tip-Off Marathon: Houston Baptist at Hawaii Kanoa Leahy & Bob Valvano |
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6 a.m. |
Tip-Off Marathon: Stony Brook at Rider Bob Picozzi & Fran Fraschilla |
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8 a.m. |
Tip-Off Marathon: Northern Illinois at Valparaiso Beth Mowins& LaPhonso Ellis |
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10 a.m. |
Tip-Off Marathon: Harvard at Massachusetts Sean McDonough & Bill Raftery |
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Noon |
Tip-Off Marathon: Temple at Kent State Carter Blackburn & Mark Adams |
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2 p.m. |
Tip-Off Marathon: Detroit at St. John’s John Saunders, Fran Fraschilla & Chris Mullin |
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4 p.m. |
Tip-Off Marathon: Butler at Xavier Bob Wischusen & Dan Dakich |
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7 p.m. |
Tip-Off Marathon: State Farm Champions Classic: No. 14 Michigan State vs. No. 7 Kansas (from Atlanta) Dan Shulman, Jay Bilas, Bob Knight & Andy Katz |
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7 p.m. |
Tip-Off Marathon: Wichita State at Virginia Commonwealth Clay Matvick & Len Elmore |
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7 p.m. |
NIT Season Tip-Off: TBD (from Charlottesville, Va.) John Sadak & Cory Alexander |
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7 p.m. |
Mississippi Valley State at No. 24 Cincinnati Tom Gelehrter & Darrin Horn |
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7 p.m. |
Vermont at Connecticut Eamon McAnaney & Ron Perry |
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8 p.m. |
Tip-Off Marathon: NIT Season Tip-Off: TBD (from Ann Arbor, Mich.) Jon Sciambi & Bruce Pearl |
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9 p.m. |
Tip-Off Marathon: State Farm Champions Classic: No. 8 Duke vs. No. 3 Kentucky (from Atlanta) Dan Shulman, Dick Vitale, Bob Knight & Andy Katz |
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9 p.m. |
Tip-Off Marathon: NIT Season Tip-Off: TBD (from Pittsburgh) Rich Hollenberg & Tim Welsh |
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10 p.m. |
Tip-Off Marathon: NIT Season Tip-Off: TBD (from Manhattan, Kan.) Mark Neely & Stephen Bardo |
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Thanks to ESPN PR for the schedule of games.
ESPN had the Temple Owls Head Coach Wired for the Temple Owls at Kent State GoldenFlashes game and ESPNU had both the Witchita State Shockers and VCU Rams head coaches Wired for that game too!!!
For those of you that were curious, the 2nd game of tonight's StateFarm Classic on ESPN, just had Dan Shulman, Dick Vitale and Andy Katz as the sideline reporter and didn't have Bob Knight as a 2nd analyst for the game like ESPN MediaZone said that it would!!!
The begining of this afternoon's game between the Butler Bulldogs at Xavier Musketeers game was moved from ESPN to ESPNNEWs starting at 4:04 ET, due to the Saint John's Redstorm beating the Detroit Titans 69-64 with 1:41 left in regulation!
This means that the 1st official 11 minutes of the Butler Bulldogs at Xavier Musketeers game was moved from ESPN to ESPNNEWS this afternoon!!!
This afternoon's Women's StateFarm Tip-Off Classic on ESPN2 between the #6 Kentucky Wildcats at #1 Baylor Bears will have 3 of the 4 main broadcasters for ESPN's coverage of the Women's Final Four in Dave O 'Brien,Doris Burke and sideline reporter Holly Rowe and on Sunday the women's college basketball game on ESPN2 between the #2 Connecticut Huskies at #16 Texas A Am Aggies will have it's broadcasters be Pam Ward and Carolyn Peck!
if the Nothern Illinois at Valparaiso game ended late, than the Harvard Crimson at Massachusetts Minutemen game started on ESPNNEWS at 10:02 am ET, the Temple Owls at Kent State GoldenFlashes game started on ESPNNEWS at 12:02 ET instead of on ESPNU like Sean Mcdonough said, due to the Harvard Crimson beating the Massachusetts Minutemen 62-59 with 2:11 left in regulation!
the 1st 8 official minutes of the Temple Owla at Kent State GoldenFlashes game was on ESPNNEWS!!!
For those of you wondering, most of the morning SportsCenter's were moved from ESPN to ESPN2 and ESPN 1st Take was moved from ESPN2 to ESPNNEWS amd NFL Live was also moved from ESPN to ESPN2, also Around The Horn and Pardon The Interuption were moved from ESPN to ESPN2, like they are ocasionally throughout the year!!!
If the Houston Baptist at Hawaii game ended late, than the Stony Brook at Rider game started on ESPNU at 6:02 am ET,if the Stony Brook at Rider game ended late, than the Northern Illinois at Valparaiso game started on ESPNU at 8:02 am ET, i also know that the 1st 24 official minutes of last night's Davidson Wildcats at New Mexico Lobos and 1st 19 official minutes of the Houston Baptist at Hawaii game were on ESPNU before moving to ESPN!!!
This morning's game between Houston Bapist at Hawaii was moved from ESPN to ESPNU and was moved to ESPN, following the conclusion of the close game between the Davidson Wildcats at New Mexico Lobos!
Tonight's Davidson Wildcats at New Mexico Lobo's game had the beginning moved from ESPN to ESPNU startng at 2:02 AM ET, due to the West Virgina Mountaineers at Gonzaga Bulldogs game still having 7:30 left in regulation at 2:00 Am ET!!!
I like that ESPN does this. I would like to tape the games because I'll be asleep and I would watch the games that start at 2am and 4am even though Im not the biggest college basketball fan.
@Giantsfan1982 Or you could watch them on ESPN3 on-demand if your internet provider provides that service. Save yourself some disc space on that DVR. :)
I am suprised that ESPN is using Bruce Pearl as a live game analyst, because didn't they sign him to mainly be a studio analyst???
Anybody else notice that Fran Fraschilla is working 2 games???
1 game as the only analyst and 1 game as 1 of 2 analysts???
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@CUbsfan Yes, and they outline why on ESPN Media Zone. They will also be doing travels with Fraschilla during Halftime as he travels from the location of the 1st game and picks up the 2nd analyst for the 2nd game he'll be broadcasting, who is a long time friend.
ESPN isn't the only group doing games though on Monday night/ Tuesday morning. In fact BYUtv has a BYU-Hawaii game on tonight at 12:30 AM.
I have a full list of all of Monday and Tuesday's men's college basketball announcing assignments up at Eyeonskyandairsports.blogspot.com.
Thank you Daniel and it also says that the 2 Champion's Classic games are part of Journey to the Tourney which is a season- long spotlight on games that will have an impact on the NCAA Championship and that Bob Knight will feature his coaching expertise as he watches each game evolve from his own analysis area.
He will offer insight during the games on what he sees as well as provide analytical "'x's and o's"breakdowns with his Knight Vision franchise.
