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Friday, Jan. 9
MEN’S NCAA BASKETBALL GAMES ON TODAY
| Game | Time | Channels |
| Miami Univ. (Ohio) at Toledo | 6:00 PM | CBS Sports Network |
| Merrimack College at Siena | 7:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Wright State at Detroit Mercy | 7:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Canisius at Manhattan | 7:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Indiana-Purdue at Wisconsin Green Bay | 7:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Rider at Fairfield | 7:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Marist at Sacred Heart | 7:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Cleveland State at Oakland | 7:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Niagara at Iona | 7:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Saint Peter’s at Mt. St. Mary’s | 7:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Northern Kentucky at Milwaukee | 8:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Akron at Bowling Green | 8:00 PM | CBS Sports Network |
| USC at Minnesota | 8:30 PM | BTN |
| UNLV at Colorado State | 10:00 PM | CBS Sports Network |
| Bryant & Stratton College at Youngstown State | 11:00 AM | ESPN Unlimited |
WOMEN’S NCAA BASKETBALL GAMES ON TODAY
| Game | Time | Channels |
| North Carolina A&T at Northeastern | 7:00 PM | NESN, NESN+ Alt. |
| Northern Iowa at Murray State | 7:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| College of Charleston at William & Mary | 7:00 PM | MASN2 |
| Temple at Tulsa | 7:30 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Drake at Belmont | 7:30 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
Saturday, Jan. 10
MEN’S NCAA BASKETBALL GAMES ON TODAY
| Game | Time | Channels |
| Evansville at Indiana State | 1:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Houston at Baylor | 1:00 PM | Peacock |
| Wisconsin at Michigan | 1:00 PM | CBS |
| Eastern Michigan at Western Michigan | 1:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Appalachian State at Coastal Carolina | 1:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Troy State at Louisiana-Lafayette | 1:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Army West Point at Boston University | 1:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Louisiana State at Vanderbilt | 1:00 PM | SEC Network |
| New Hampshire at Maryland-BC | 1:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Harvard at Columbia | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| St. John’s at Creighton | 2:00 PM | FOX Sports 1 |
| Bryant at Albany | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Syracuse at Pittsburgh | 2:00 PM | ACC Network |
| Yale at Princeton | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Buffalo at Ohio | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Georgia at South Carolina | 2:00 PM | ESPN2 |
| Brown at Pennsylvania | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Winthrop at South Carolina Upstate | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Queens University at North Florida | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Lafayette College at Navy | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| North Alabama at Bellarmine | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Penn State at Purdue | 2:00 PM | BTN |
| Southern Methodist at Duke | 2:00 PM | ESPN |
| Lehigh at Colgate | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Maine at NJ Institute of Technology | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Towson University at Northeastern | 2:00 PM | NESN |
| Austin Peay State at Stetson | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| High Point at Charleston Southern | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Dartmouth at Cornell | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Virginia Military Institute at Furman | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Rhode Island at Davidson | 2:00 PM | USA Network |
| Georgia Southern at South Alabama | 2:00 PM | ESPNU, ESPN Unlimited |
| Stanford at Virginia | 2:15 PM | CW |
| UNC-Ashville at Radford | 2:30 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Villanova at Marquette | 2:30 PM | TNT, truTV, TNT West |
| Louisiana Monroe at Southern Mississippi | 3:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Presbyterian College at Longwood | 3:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Delaware at Louisiana Tech | 3:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Texas State at Arkansas State | 3:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Kansas State at Arizona State | 3:00 PM | Peacock |
| Abilene Christian University at Texas Arlington | 3:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| South Florida at Tulsa | 3:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Kent State at Central Michigan | 3:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| West Georgia at Jacksonville | 3:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Loyola Chicago at George Washington | 3:00 PM | CBS Sports Network |
| Southeast Missouri State at Morehead State | 3:30 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Oklahoma at Texas A&M | 3:30 PM | SEC Network |
| Liberty at Sam Houston St. | 3:30 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Valparaiso at Murray State | 4:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Old Dominion at James Madison | 4:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Central Arkansas at Eastern Kentucky | 4:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Western Kentucky at Texas El Paso | 4:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| St. Louis at La Salle | 4:00 PM | USA Network |
| Dixie State at Utah Valley | 4:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Jackson State at Alabama State | 4:00 PM | ESPNU |
| California at Virginia Tech | 4:00 PM | ACC Network |
| Providence at Xavier | 4:00 PM | FOX Sports 1 |
| Lipscomb at Florida Gulf Coast | 4:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Arizona at Texas Christian University | 4:00 PM | ESPN |
| Holy Cross at American University | 4:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| UNC Greensboro at East Tennessee St. | 4:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Oklahoma State at Iowa State | 4:00 PM | ESPN, ESPN2 |
| Norfolk State at Delaware State | 4:30 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Samford at Tennessee-Chattanooga | 4:30 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| North Carolina Central at Coppin State | 4:30 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Texas A&M Corpus Cristi at Northwestern State | 4:30 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Tennessee Tech at Western Illinois | 4:30 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Arkansas-Little Rock at Lindenwood | 4:30 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Tennessee State at Eastern Illinois | 4:30 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Washington State at Saint Mary’s | 5:00 PM | CBS Sports Network |
| Illinois-Chicago at Illinois State | 5:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Tulane at Texas San Antonio | 5:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Southeastern Louisiana at McNeese State | 5:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Montana at Eastern Washington | 5:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Montana State at Idaho | 5:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Jacksonville State at Kennesaw State | 5:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Florida International at Missouri State | 5:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Loyola-Maryland at Bucknell | 5:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Sacramento State at Portland State | 5:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| UC Davis at Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo | 5:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Nicholls State at New Orleans | 6:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Houston Christian at Stephen F. Austin State | 6:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Arkansas at Auburn | 6:00 PM | ESPN, ESPN2 |
| Clemson at Notre Dame | 6:00 PM | ESPN2 |
| Seton Hall at Georgetown | 6:00 PM | FOX Sports 1 |
| Wake Forest at North Carolina | 6:00 PM | ACC Network |
| Northern Iowa at Bradley | 6:00 PM | ESPNU |
| Texas Rio Grande Valley at Texas A&M-Commerce | 6:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Missouri at Mississippi | 6:00 PM | SEC Network |
| Belmont at Drake | 6:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Texas Tech at Colorado | 7:00 PM | CBS Sports Network |
| San Diego at University of the Pacific | 7:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Cal State Northridge at Cal State Fullerton | 7:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| The Incarnate Word at Lamar | 7:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Cal State Bakersfield at Cal State Long Beach | 7:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Texas at Alabama | 8:00 PM | ESPN |
| Maryland at UCLA | 8:00 PM | FOX Sports 1, FOX |
| Southern Utah at California Baptist | 8:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| University of San Francisco at Pepperdine | 8:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Idaho State at Northern Arizona | 8:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Oregon State at Portland | 8:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Weber State at Northern Colorado | 8:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Middle Tennessee State at New Mexico State | 8:00 PM | ESPNU |
| California-San Diego at Cal Riverside | 8:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Mississippi State at Kentucky | 8:30 PM | SEC Network |
| Tennessee Martin at Southern Indiana | 8:30 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Utah State at Boise State | 9:00 PM | CBS Sports Network |
| Loyola-Marymount at Santa Clara | 10:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Brigham Young at Utah | 10:00 PM | ESPN |
| Fresno State at San Diego State | 11:00 PM | CBS Sports Network |
| Tennessee at Florida | 12:00 PM | ESPN |
| Kansas at West Virginia | 12:00 PM | FOX |
| Virginia Commonwealth at George Mason | 12:00 PM | ESPNU |
| Georgia Tech at Miami (FL) | 12:00 PM | ESPN2 |
| North Carolina State at Florida State | 12:00 PM | ACC Network |
| Boston College at Louisville | 12:00 PM | CW |
| Nebraska at Indiana | 12:00 PM | BTN |
| Fordham at St. Bonaventure | 12:00 PM | USA Network |
| DePaul at Connecticut | 12:30 PM | TNT, truTV, TNT West |
WOMEN’S NCAA BASKETBALL GAMES ON TODAY
| Game | Time | Channels |
| Iona at Canisius | 1:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Old Dominion at Georgia Southern | 1:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| James Madison at Georgia State | 1:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Maryland-BC at New Hampshire | 1:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Jacksonville State at Missouri State | 1:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Texas El Paso at Western Kentucky | 1:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Binghamton at Massachusetts Lowell | 1:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Cornell at Dartmouth | 1:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Southern Mississippi at Appalachian State | 1:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| NJ Institute of Technology at Maine | 1:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| New Mexico State at Middle Tennessee State | 1:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Boston University at Army West Point | 1:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Southeast Missouri State at Morehead State | 1:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Coastal Carolina at Marshall | 1:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| UNC Charlotte at Texas San Antonio | 1:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Kennesaw State at Florida International | 1:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| St. Bonaventure at Rhode Island | 1:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Wisconsin Green Bay at Detroit Mercy | 1:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Wofford at East Tennessee St. | 1:30 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Milwaukee at Oakland | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Rider at Marist | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Kent State at Eastern Michigan | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Butler at St. John’s | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Southeastern Louisiana at McNeese State | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Pennsylvania at Brown | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Navy at Lafayette College | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Furman at Tennessee-Chattanooga | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Brigham Young at Houston | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Merrimack College at Siena | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Florida Gulf Coast at Lipscomb | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Radford at High Point | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Texas Tech at Cincinnati | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Norfolk State at Delaware State | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Mt. St. Mary’s at Saint Peter’s | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| North Florida at Queens University | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Columbia at Harvard | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Charleston Southern at Winthrop | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| South Carolina State at Morgan State | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Sam Houston St. at Delaware | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Bucknell at Loyola-Maryland | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Princeton at Yale | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| North Carolina Central at Coppin State | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Albany at Bryant | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Purdue Fort Wayne at Youngstown State | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Dayton at Fordham | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| South Carolina Upstate at Gardner-Webb | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Tennessee Tech at Western Illinois | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Western Michigan at Toledo | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Colgate at Lehigh | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Manhattan at Niagara | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Tennessee State at Eastern Illinois | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Jacksonville at West Georgia | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Texas A&M Corpus Cristi at Northwestern State | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Mercer at UNC Greensboro | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Texas Arlington at Abilene Christian University | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Longwood at UNC-Ashville | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| American University at Holy Cross | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| La Salle at Saint Joseph’s | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| South Florida at Memphis | 3:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Nicholls State at New Orleans | 3:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Georgetown at DePaul | 3:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Stetson at Austin Peay State | 3:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Sacred Heart at Quinnipiac | 3:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Florida Atlantic at UAB | 3:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| East Carolina at Wichita State | 3:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Santa Clara at Washington State | 3:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Texas Rio Grande Valley at Texas A&M-Commerce | 3:30 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Eastern Washington at Montana | 4:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Central Florida at Arizona | 4:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Northern Arizona at Idaho State | 4:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Northern Colorado at Weber State | 4:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Idaho at Montana State | 4:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| The Incarnate Word at Lamar | 4:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Texas State at Louisiana-Lafayette | 4:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Seattle at Oregon State | 4:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Utah Valley at Dixie State | 4:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Louisiana Monroe at South Alabama | 4:30 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Arkansas State at Troy State | 4:33 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Pepperdine at San Diego | 5:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Portland at Gonzaga | 5:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Utah at Kansas State | 5:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Cal State Long Beach at Cal State Bakersfield | 5:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo at UC Davis | 5:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Air Force at San José State | 5:00 PM | NBC Sports Bay Area Plus Alt. |
| Cal State Fullerton at Cal State Northridge | 5:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Tennessee Martin at Southern Indiana | 6:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Davidson at Richmond | 6:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Cal Riverside at California-San Diego | 7:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Miami Univ. (Ohio) at Akron | 12:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
Sunday, Jan. 11
MEN’S NCAA BASKETBALL GAMES ON TODAY
| Game | Time | Channels |
| Memphis at Florida Atlantic | 1:00 PM | ESPN2 |
| Cleveland State at Detroit Mercy | 1:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Canisius at Iona | 1:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| UNC Charlotte at Rice | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Quinnipiac at Sacred Heart | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Northern Kentucky at Wisconsin Green Bay | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Purdue Fort Wayne at Robert Morris | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Marist at Rider | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| UAB at East Carolina | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Merrimack College at Saint Peter’s | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Siena at Mt. St. Mary’s | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Niagara at Manhattan | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Wright State at Oakland | 3:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited, ESPN2 |
| North Texas at Wichita State | 3:00 PM | ESPN2, ESPNU |
| Cincinnati at Central Florida | 5:00 PM | ESPN2 |
| Northwestern at Rutgers | 5:00 PM | Peacock |
| Ohio State at Washington | 6:00 PM | Peacock |
| Illinois at Iowa | 12:00 PM | FOX |
| Saint Joseph’s at Richmond | 12:00 PM | USA Network |
WOMEN’S NCAA BASKETBALL GAMES ON TODAY
| Game | Time | Channels |
| Monmouth at Northeastern | 1:00 PM | NESN, NESN+ |
| North Carolina at Notre Dame | 1:00 PM | ESPN |
| Louisiana Tech at Liberty | 1:00 PM | ESPNU |
| Wright State at Indiana-Purdue | 1:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Pittsburgh at Louisville | 2:00 PM | CW |
| Colorado at Oklahoma State | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Georgia at South Carolina | 2:00 PM | SEC Network |
| St. Louis at Loyola Chicago | 2:00 PM | USA Network |
| Florida State at Miami (FL) | 2:00 PM | ACC Network |
| Duquesne at Virginia Commonwealth | 2:00 PM | CBS Sports Network |
| Evansville at Illinois State | 3:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Kansas at Baylor | 3:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| West Virginia at Iowa State | 3:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Drake at Murray State | 3:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Illinois at Penn State | 3:00 PM | BTN |
| Indiana State at Bradley | 3:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Texas at Louisiana State | 3:00 PM | ESPN |
| Northern Iowa at Belmont | 3:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Ohio State at Maryland | 4:00 PM | Peacock |
| Clemson at Georgia Tech | 4:00 PM | ACC Network |
| Oklahoma at Kentucky | 4:00 PM | SEC Network |
| Iowa at Indiana | 5:00 PM | BTN |
| Arizona State at Texas Christian University | 5:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Duke at Stanford | 5:00 PM | ESPN |
| Southern Methodist at North Carolina State | 6:00 PM | ACC Network |
| Mississippi State at Mississippi | 6:00 PM | SEC Network |
| UCLA at Nebraska | 7:00 PM | BTN |
| George Mason at George Washington | 12:00 PM | CBS Sports Network |
| Boston College at Virginia Tech | 12:00 PM | ACC Network |
How to Watch NCAA College Basketball on TV
Here’s a list of the different TV networks that will air NCAA basketball games during the 2025-26 season, along with their corresponding DIRECTV channel number.
- ABC: Find your local ABC channel
- ACCN: Channel 612
- BTN: Channel 610
- CBS: Find your local CBS channel
- CBS Sports Network: Channel 221*
- CW: Find your local CW channel
- ESPN: Channel 206
- ESPN2: Channel 209
- ESPNU: Channel 208**
- FOX: Find your local FOX channel
- FS1: Channel 219
- FS2: Channel 618*
- TBS: Channel 247
- TNT: Channel 245
- truTV: Channel 246
- Regional Sports Lineup (only available in some areas)
*Available with ULTIMATE Package and above
**Available with CHOICE™ Package and above
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