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COLLEGE BASKETBALL GAMES ON TV TODAY
All times ET
Friday, November 13
Men’s College Basketball Games on Today
| Game | Time | Channels |
|---|---|---|
| Viterbo at Wisconsin Green Bay | 12:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| North Alabama at Miami (FL) | 5:00 PM | ACC Network |
| Texas A&M Corpus Cristi at Florida State | 5:00 PM | ACC Network Extra |
| Georgetown at Clemson | 6:00 PM | ESPNU |
| Pittsburgh at Butler | 6:30 PM | Peacock |
| Troy State at North Carolina State | 7:00 PM | ACC Network |
| Georgia at North Carolina | 7:00 PM | ESPN2 |
| Northern Iowa at Michigan State | 7:00 PM | FOX Sports 1, FOX Deportes |
| Harvard at George Washington | 7:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Northern Arizona at Kentucky | 7:00 PM | SECN+ |
| Prairie View A&M at Vanderbilt | 7:00 PM | SECN+ |
| Tennessee State at Tennessee | 7:00 PM | SECN+ |
| Marist at Lehigh | 7:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Florida International at Florida Gulf Coast | 7:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Appalachian State at UNC Charlotte | 7:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| LIU-Brooklyn at Fordham | 7:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Mt. St. Mary’s at Virginia Tech | 7:00 PM | ACC Network Extra |
| Mary Baldwin at Virginia Military Institute | 7:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Columbia at Bucknell | 7:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Champion Christian College at Tennessee Martin | 7:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Kentucky State University at Eastern Kentucky | 7:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Ohio State at Connecticut | 7:30 PM | TNT, TNT West, truTV |
| Southeast Missouri State at Middle Tennessee State | 7:30 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| North Carolina Central at Liberty | 7:30 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| South Dakota at Drake | 7:30 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Virginia at Maryland | 8:00 PM | Peacock |
| Fairleigh Dickinson at Oklahoma | 8:00 PM | SECN+ |
| Central Arkansas at Arkansas | 8:00 PM | SECN+ |
| Southern Illinois Edwardsville at Duke | 8:00 PM | CW |
| Georgia Southern at Central Florida | 8:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Milwaukee at Texas Christian University | 8:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Southern Mississippi at Texas State | 8:00 PM | YouTube |
| Alcorn State at Tarleton State | 8:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| College of Biblical Studies at Houston Christian | 8:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Texas Southern at Murray State | 8:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Midwestern State at Colorado State-Pueblo | 8:00 PM | Sports Illustrated |
| Wright State at Samford | 8:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Arizona at Auburn | 9:00 PM | ESPN2 |
| Mississippi State at Xavier | 9:00 PM | FOX Sports 1 |
| Stanford at UNLV | 9:00 PM | CBS Sports Network |
| Ball State at Southern Methodist | 9:00 PM | ACC Network |
| Corban at Eastern Washington | 9:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo at Idaho | 9:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Minot State at Black Hills State | 9:00 PM | Ryz Sports |
| Louisiana Monroe at Arizona State | 9:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Chicago State at San Diego | 9:30 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Mississippi Valley St. at Oregon State | 9:30 PM | YouTube |
| California-San Diego at Utah State | 10:00 PM | CW |
| Illinois-Chicago at Saint Mary’s | 10:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| East Texas A&M at Portland | 10:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Arkansas-Pine Bluff at California Baptist | 10:30 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
Women’s College Basketball Games on Today
| Game | Time | Channels |
|---|---|---|
| American University at Delaware State | 11:00 AM | YouTube |
| Towson University at Loyola-Maryland | 11:00 AM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Valparaiso at Purdue Fort Wayne | 11:00 AM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Oral Roberts at Oklahoma | 11:30 AM | SECN+ |
| Troy State at Belmont | 12:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Stephens College at Lindenwood | 12:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Texas A&M Corpus Cristi at Texas State | 12:30 PM | YouTube |
| Bethune Cookman at Utah State | 1:00 PM | YouTube |
| Walla Walla at Eastern Washington | 3:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Canisius at Cornell | 5:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Northwestern at West Virginia | 5:30 PM | CBS Sports Network |
| Morgan State at Maryland-BC | 6:30 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Fisk University at North Alabama | 7:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Wright State at Indiana State | 7:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Auburn at Texas Tech | 7:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Oregon at Maine | 7:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Denver at Louisiana State | 7:00 PM | SECN+ |
| College of Biblical Studies at McNeese State | 7:30 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Marquette at Missouri State | 7:30 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| University of the Pacific at California Baptist | 8:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Gonzaga at Grand Canyon University | 8:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Wyoming at Colorado State | 8:30 PM | YouTube |
| Utah at Boise State | 8:30 PM | YouTube |
| Princeton at Pepperdine | 9:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Southern Utah at Washington State | 9:00 PM | YouTube |
| Stanford at Santa Clara | 10:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
Saturday, November 14
Men’s College Basketball Games on Today
| Game | Time | Channels |
|---|---|---|
| UNC Greensboro at Cornell | 11:00 AM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Tulane at Akron | 12:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Plattsburgh State at Vermont | 1:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Bradley at George Mason | 1:00 PM | YouTube |
| St. Thomas (MN) at Army West Point | 1:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Drexel at Maine | 1:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Northwest University at Washington State | 1:00 PM | YouTube |
| Loyola Chicago at Colorado State | 1:30 PM | USA Network |
| Coppin State at South Florida | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Gardner-Webb at South Carolina | 2:00 PM | SECN+ |
| Rice at Stephen F. Austin State | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Northern Illinois University at Bellarmine | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Miami Univ. (Ohio) at Evansville | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| The Citadel at North Florida | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Wofford at Queens University | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| College of Coastal Georgia at Florida Atlantic | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Jackson State at Winthrop | 2:30 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Shenandoah at Radford | 2:30 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Wyoming at Denver | 3:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Louisiana State at Gonzaga | 3:30 PM | USA Network |
| Central Michigan at Northern Kentucky | 3:30 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Southern Utah at Wake Forest | 4:00 PM | ACC Network Extra |
| UNC-Ashville at Georgia Tech | 4:00 PM | ACC Network Extra |
| Longwood at Old Dominion | 4:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Hampton at Navy | 4:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Air Force at University of the Pacific | 4:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Toledo at Detroit Mercy | 4:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Lafayette College at St. Bonaventure | 4:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Delaware State at East Carolina | 4:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Dixie State at California | 5:00 PM | ACC Network Extra |
| Northern Iowa at Oakland | 5:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Colorado at Providence | 6:00 PM | Peacock |
| Marshall at Youngstown State | 6:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Southern-New Orleans at New Orleans | 6:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Lincoln (CA) at Weber State | 6:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Cal Riverside at Fresno State | 6:00 PM | YouTube |
| Pennsylvania at Saint Joseph’s | 6:30 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Portland State at University of San Francisco | 7:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| NJ Institute of Technology at Fairfield | 7:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Washington at Utah | 7:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Austin Peay State at Wichita State | 7:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Rider at Villanova | 7:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| UAB at Jacksonville State | 7:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Brown at Siena | 7:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Texas Rio Grande Valley at Texas Arlington | 7:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Lipscomb at Western Carolina | 7:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| West Georgia at Charleston Southern | 7:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Howard at Davidson | 7:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Cincinnati at Dayton | 7:30 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Binghamton at Duquesne | 7:30 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Indiana-Purdue at Morehead State | 7:30 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Northwestern State at Arkansas-Little Rock | 8:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| TBD at TBD | 8:00 PM | Ryz Sports |
| Dillard at Arkansas State | 8:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Louisiana Tech at Nicholls State | 8:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| UC Davis at Sacramento State | 8:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Furman at Belmont | 8:30 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Dallas Baptist University at Colorado Mesa | 9:00 PM | Ryz Sports |
| New Mexico at Santa Clara | 10:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Idaho State at Seattle | 10:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
Women’s College Basketball Games on Today
| Game | Time | Channels |
|---|---|---|
| Rider at Yale | 11:00 AM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Wofford at Georgia Southern | 11:00 AM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Clinton at Winthrop | 12:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Providence at Boston College | 12:00 PM | ACC Network Extra |
| Mississippi Valley St. at Tennessee State | 12:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Charleston Southern at Pittsburgh | 12:00 PM | ACC Network Extra |
| Mississippi State at Buffalo | 12:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Central Connecticut St. at Massachusetts | 1:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| DePaul at Notre Dame | 1:00 PM | NBC |
| Sacramento State at Niagara | 1:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| South Carolina Upstate at UNC Greensboro | 1:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| NJ Institute of Technology at Dartmouth | 1:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Georgia at Ohio | 1:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Air Force at Navy | 1:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Tarleton State at Texas | 1:00 PM | SECN+ |
| North Dakota at Detroit Mercy | 1:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Duquesne at Kent State | 1:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Binghamton at St. Bonaventure | 1:30 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Rhode Island at St. John’s | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Warner University at Jacksonville | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Boston University at Quinnipiac | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Queens University at Gardner-Webb | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Milwaukee at Loyola Chicago | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Wisconsin at Wisconsin Green Bay | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Evansville at Eastern Illinois | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| North Florida at Central Arkansas | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Eureka at Southern Illinois Edwardsville | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| South Carolina State at High Point | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Illinois State at St. Louis | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Florida Atlantic at Florida Gulf Coast | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Bucknell at Mt. St. Mary’s | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Northern Arizona at Fresno State | 3:00 PM | YouTube |
| Youngstown State at Colorado | 3:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Houston Christian at Weber State | 3:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| The Incarnate Word at North Texas | 3:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Cal Riverside at Wichita State | 3:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| California at UC Santa Barbara | 3:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| North Carolina Central at George Mason | 3:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| St. Thomas (MN) at Army West Point | 3:30 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| North Carolina at Pennsylvania | 4:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Nevada at Utah Valley | 4:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| LSU-Shreveport at Texas Arlington | 4:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Bradley at Bellarmine | 5:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Cal State Northridge at San Diego | 5:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| LIU-Brooklyn at George Washington | 5:30 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Sam Houston St. at Northern Colorado | 8:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| New Mexico at Brigham Young | 9:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
Sunday, November 15
Men’s College Basketball Games on Today
| Game | Time | Channels |
|---|---|---|
| Louisville at Memphis | 1:00 PM | ESPN |
| Harvard at American University | 1:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Dartmouth at Boston University | 1:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Niagara at Iowa State | 1:00 PM | ESPN2 |
| Norfolk State at Georgia State | 1:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Colgate at Delaware | 1:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| New Hampshire at Boston College | 1:30 PM | ACC Network Extra |
| Princeton at Rhode Island | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Emmanuel College at Yale | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Albany at Holy Cross | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Temple at La Salle | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Capital at Robert Morris | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Missouri at Marquette | 2:30 PM | Peacock |
| Baylor at Texas | 3:00 PM | ESPN |
| Creighton at Iowa | 3:00 PM | FOX Sports 1 |
| High Point at St. Louis | 3:00 PM | ESPN2 |
| Purdue Fort Wayne at Eastern Illinois | 3:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| New Mexico State at San Diego State | 4:00 PM | CW |
| Chicago State at Loyola-Marymount | 4:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Mercyhurst at James Madison | 4:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| California Merced at UC Santa Barbara | 4:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| New Haven at Penn State | 4:30 PM | Peacock |
| Western Michigan at Southern Indiana | 4:30 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Canisius at Buffalo | 5:30 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Ecclesia at Tennessee Martin | 5:30 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo at Montana State | 6:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Syracuse at St. John’s | 7:00 PM | Peacock, NBC Sports 1 |
| Texas State at Texas San Antonio | 8:00 PM | ESPN2 |
Women’s College Basketball Games on Today
| Game | Time | Channels |
|---|---|---|
| West Georgia at Massachusetts Lowell | 12:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Hofstra at Iona | 1:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| North Carolina State at Seton Hall | 1:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Vanderbilt at Iowa | 1:00 PM | FOX Sports 1 |
| Brown at Maine | 1:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| East Carolina at James Madison | 1:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Oakland at Miami Univ. (Ohio) | 1:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Siena at New Haven | 1:00 PM | NESN |
| USC at South Carolina | 1:00 PM | ABC |
| Western Michigan at Dayton | 1:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Michigan State at Harvard | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Villanova at Fairfield | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Lehigh at Vermont | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Lafayette College at Marist | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Fordham at Manhattan | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| South Alabama at Kennesaw State | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| William & Mary at Richmond | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Southern at Oklahoma | 2:00 PM | SECN+ |
| La Salle at Virginia Tech | 2:00 PM | ACC Network Extra |
| Oklahoma State at South Dakota State | 2:00 PM | CBS Sports Network |
| Valparaiso at Toledo | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Florida A & M at West Florida | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Florida at Florida State | 2:00 PM | ACC Network Extra |
| Virginia-Lynchburg at Western Carolina | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Howard at Georgetown | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Virginia at Old Dominion | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Georgia State at Georgia Tech | 2:00 PM | ACC Network Extra |
| Lipscomb at Tennessee-Chattanooga | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Coastal Carolina at East Tennessee St. | 2:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Mercer at Alabama | 3:00 PM | SECN+ |
| Lindenwood at Missouri | 3:00 PM | SECN+ |
| Louisiana Tech at Mississippi | 3:00 PM | SECN+ |
| Marshall at Duke | 3:00 PM | ACC Network |
| Dixie State at Boise State | 3:00 PM | YouTube |
| East Texas A&M at Baylor | 3:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Butler at Tennessee Martin | 3:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Elon at Wake Forest | 3:00 PM | ACC Network Extra |
| Creighton at Northern Iowa | 3:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Florida International at South Florida | 3:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Abilene Christian University at Texas Christian University | 3:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Southeastern Louisiana at Texas Tech | 3:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| University of San Francisco at California-San Diego | 4:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| American University at Delaware | 4:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Penn State at Arizona State | 4:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Texas Southern at Tulsa | 4:30 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| UC Irvine at Eastern Washington | 5:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Stetson at Clemson | 5:00 PM | ACC Network |
| Gonzaga at Stanford | 5:00 PM | ACC Network Extra |
| University of the Pacific at Cal State Fullerton | 5:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Walla Walla at Idaho | 5:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Connecticut at Louisville | 5:30 PM | ESPN |
| Illinois-Chicago at Iowa State | 6:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
| Nicholls State at Southern Methodist | 7:00 PM | ACC Network Extra |
| Canisius at Syracuse | 7:00 PM | ACC Network |
| Oregon State at Arizona | 9:00 PM | ESPN Unlimited |
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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