College Basketball TV Listings: Saturday and Sunday February 17-18, 2007

*** all times pacific; add +3 for eastern; adjust for other time zones ***
*** predictions are not the most likely outcomes ***
*** predictions attempt to catch the randomness of each game ***
*** FSN/FoxCollegeSports games may be regionally aligned. YMMV ***
*** by the law of averages, I am bound to have some incorrect listings ***
*** please double-check with your local listings ***


Bracket Buster SATURDAY FEBRUARY 17, 2007

730am, Basketball Weekly, CSTV

8am, College Gameday, AM edition, ESPN

8am, Three point club, CSTV

830am, Courtside with Rick Pitino, CSTV. (breakdown of Big East teams on a general Xs and Os level)

9am, Georgetown at Villanova, ESPN. Prediction: Georgetown!

10am, UCLA at Arizona on Florida at Vandy or Army at Navy, regional coverage at CBS. Prediction: UCLA completes an LA sweep of Lute Olson (how the mighty Lute has fallen!), Florida in overtime, and Navy on a buzzbeater

11am, Washington at Pitt, ESPN. Upset Alert Special!. Conventional wisdom says Pitt, however Brockman is Pitt-tough, and Washington has the raw talent to win if they can remain focused for 40 minutes. Washington wins!

1230pm, Texas A&M at Oklahoma or UConn at Syracuse or Tennessee at South Carolina on ABC. Prediction: All three road teams win, despite conventional wisdom. The games are followed at 3pm (or later) by a new episode of "Free Ticket Inside College Basketball" presented by the Chase Freedom credit card. The longest name in basketball show history?

1pm, Indiana at Michigan on CBS. Theme song/album: The Who/Tommy (ouch!!!). Prediction: The Indiana "Sooners" deliver a Kelvin Sampson physical beat-down

1pm, Southern Illinois at Butler, ESPN2. Bracket Buster Must See TV!. Prediction: Butler wins 40-39. Digger Phelps laughs at the low scoring game and predicts Notre Dame gets a 4 seed in the NCAA tourney ;-)

1pm, 1230am, Division 2: Clark of Atlanta vs Morehouse, CSTV

3pm, Memphis at Gonzaga, ESPN. Informal bracket buster. Heytvelt or no Heytvelt, it will be hard for Zags to beat the AASAA Tigers in the Spokane arena (not the Kennel). Memphis wins.

3pm, Northern Iowa at Nevada, ESPN2. The Valley of Darkness is killing off the chances of MVC teams. Nevada is hard to beat at home. Nevada wins.

3pm, oregon state at california, FSN/FoxCollegeSports. Prediction: Cal as they beef up their NIT resume, which may be harder to get an at-large bid than the NCAA tourney :-)

3pm, 4pm, unlv at utah, Versus and VersusGolfHD. Prediction: unlv steals one in triple overtime

3pm, iowa state at kansas state on CSN. Prediction: Huggins!

3pm, 730pm, uab at houston, CSTV. Prediction: Turnaround Tom wins!

330pm, Hardwood Havens: Rupp Arena, INHD

5pm, Bradley at VCU ESPN2. A matchup between the Colonial and the Valley of Darkness. Prediction: Bradley road win!

5pm, 8pm, Oregon at Stanford, FSN/FoxCollegeSports. Prediction: The Oregon Lilliputians outfox the Stanford Goliaths!

5pm, College Gameday, pregame edition. ESPN

6pm, North Carolina at Boston College, ESPN. Prediction: Carolina takes out all their frustrations on BC and wins by 22.

6pm, Louisiana Lafayette at Denver, FoxCollegeSports

7pm, Drexel at Creighton, ESPN2. A sub-theme of the bracket-buster, the CAA-MVC challenge. Prediction: Drexel wins!

8pm, Pistol Pete diaries, episode 1, featuring author Mark Kriegel. FoxCollegeSports

9pm, Ohio at New Mexico State, ESPN2. Prediction: Not even close. TV coach wins by 20.

9pm, Midnight MadnesS, ESPN, with Tom Brennan and Doug Gottlieb

midnight, repeat of the 2006 college basketball skills, jams and three pointers, ESPN

midnight, 230am, repeat of episode 3 of Seth Davis Generation Next, CSTV

that's all for Saturday. Check the ESPN website for FullCourt pay per view listings


SUNDAY FEBRUARY 18, 2007

6am, Game of the Week Repeat on ESPN Classic. The game choice will be announced at the end of Midnight Madness on Saturday late night.

10am, Georgia Tech at Duke, or Oden State at Molinari State, regional coverage on CBS. Prediction: Duke and Ohio State. But I want Georgia Tech to win! Beat the Dookies Paul Hewitt! Please!!!!!! :-)

12pm, Binghmampton at Vermont, FoxCollegeSports. Prediction: Vermont wins!

3pm, st marys vs st dominics, high school game, FoxCollegeSports. Not sure if any major d1 prospects or signees are playing

5pm, USC at Arizona State, FSN/FoxCollegeSports. Prediction: arIzONA state gets its first conference win in triple overtime with a buzzer beater and three controversial calls by the zebras.

1030pm, college gamenight, ESPN

No ACC Sunday Night Hoops???

11am Monday, from 1991, Big East quarterfinals, Pitt vs Seton Hall, ESPN Classic


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