The national TV college basketball schedule is printed in the USA Today Weekly, Special edition College Basketball preview, in the last two pages. Available where USA Today is sold, for $4.99 list price (a quick review of this is coming up in a few hours). This includes the TV schedule for both men and women. Action begins November 7 on ESPNU and coverage is printed all through the conference tourneys in March.
A quick overview of November shows the usual stuff: Coaches versus Cancer (2K Sports Classic), pre-season NIT (NIT Season Tip-Off), CBE (Guardians Classic), Maui, Alaska, Jimmy V Classic, ACC-Big11 challenge, Wooden Challenge and Tradition, etc, etc.
One surprise is the addition (!) of a new full-size tourney on Feast Week (the week of Thanksgiving which includes Maui, Alaska, NIT, and Guardians). This new tourney lasts for three days of games (over a four day period), with four games each day, all broadcast on ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU, starting Thursday November 23. The bigger names of the eight teams are: Arkansas, Southern Illinois, Virginia Tech, West Virginia and Minnneessssoooota. The name of the tourney is Old Spice Classic in Orlando.
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