West Coast Bias: All times reported are PACIFIC!. Add +3 for Eastern Standard Time (EST).
Look at the date: Friday October 13! But instead of watching a horror B-movie marathon, you can instead visit your local university for Midnight Madness or watch some of the festivities on TV and on the Net!
Midnight Madness stories
Kieran Darcy nano-essay on ESPN Page 2
Highly touted 2007 forward JJ Hickson will be celebrating his verbal commitment tonight. Find out where he committed!
Shoe Madness! ESPN's Outside the Lines: First Report had a segment on Starbury's $15 shoe and discussion on how it will affect the market and the Shoe Wars.
ESPN's Feature Story heading into Midnight Madness, The Impact 25.
Andy Katz disects the Schedules of various teams. He gives props to Dave Odom and Lute Olson for their touigh scheduling. He sugar-coats UConn's staying at home and eating cupcakes for the whole of 2006 (the local team you see). Karl Hobbs gets the "Mark Gottfriend" award for trying to improve on his cupcake schedule of last year. Bob Huggins takes him team to (!) North Dakota State. Oregon has a shaky schedule, mirroring Ernie Kent's situation. The 11-wins watch - that's how many Bob Knight needs to pass Dean Smith. Andy Katz awards the best 10 schedules to.... LSU, North Carolina, Gonzaga, ..., ... read his story to find out the other seven :-)
Sidney Lowe, according to Andy Katz, says that Andrew Brackman hasn't actually made up his mind. Get your story straight NC State :-)
Midnight Madness on TV
ESPNU starts at 7pm Pacific (10pm EST) with a 30-minute preview show, then North Carolina, Indiana and George Mason getting one hour each. ESPNU Midnight Madness Schedule. No word yet if any of this will be shown on any of the other ESPN properties such as ESPN2, or ESPN News or ESPN Classic (last year they showed highlights on ESPN2, but the TV listings did not reflect that).
Fox College Sports will cover the Florida Gators midnight madness festivities, with one rerun later in the night/morning. There is conflicting information on the actual start time. FCS will also show Kentucky's midnight madness tape-delayed on Sunday at 2pm pacific (5pm EST)
CSTV will have a special 60 or 90-minute version of Crystal Ball previewing the season and visiting some campuses (not known which ones yet). The show will start either at 8pm or 9pm pacific, and repeat about half a dozen times over the next 48 hours.
A 30-minute women's preview special (Crystal Ball special edition) will be shown on Sunday on CSTV, with multiple replays.
No indication whether Fox Sports and Best Damn Sports Show Period will have any Midnight Madness coverage.
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