Friday, February 09, 2007

TV Hoops: Weekend Hoops - Rivarly Week!

*** 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 ***


SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2007

  • lots of games and a handful of preview shows as well! Warm up your VCRs, empty your TiVos!
  • 730am, Basketball weekly, weekend preview show on CSTV
  • 8am, College Gameday from Lexington, Kentucky, ESPN
  • 830am, Three Point Club, an SEC preview show, CSTV
  • 830am, Courtside with Rick Pitino, CSTV. Usually he breaks down Big East teams in basketball terms. Might be of interest to hardcore fans, current or aspiring coaches
  • 9am, Marquette at Georgetown on ESPN. Now this game is as good as it looked at the start of the season. Both teams have matured and advanced enough to make this a high level game (at least on paper). Prediction: Georgetown wins, unless Dominic James hits four impossible three pointers in the 2nd half.
  • 9am, Southern at Arkansas Pine Bluff, ESPN2
  • 9am, 3am, Division 2 action, Stone Hill at Bentley, CSTV
  • 10am, UCLA at West Virginia or Illinois at Indiana, the Eric Gordon Chronicles - Volume II, on CBS. Prediction: UCLA (although as Digger Phelps likes to point out the 1-3-1 zone may confuse UCLA) and shock! Illinois wins and Bruce Weber goes wild.
  • 10am, 7pm, 3am, Valpo at Oakland, FoxCollegeSports
  • 10am, from the 1992 WAC conference tourney, BYU vs UTEP, on BYU-TV (a religious channel), commercial free game!
  • 11am, Iowa at Wisconsin on ESPN. Prediction: Wisconsin by 19
  • 11am, Middle TN St at Western Kentucky, ESPN2. Western by 12
  • 1130am, Penn State at Northwestern, on CSN/FullCourt. Prediction: A 0-0 soccer draw.
  • 1230pm, Arizona at Oregon or Kansas at Missouri on ABC and ESPN Full Court. Prediction: Arizona and Kansas. It's all about the road teams on network TV this weekend :)
  • 1pm, Hofstra at George Mason on ESPN. After dissing George Mason and sending them to ESPN360 for next week's Bracket Buster, ESPN tried to make up for it by symbolically upgrading this game from ESPN2 to ESPN and sends the Knights vs Suttons to ESPN2. Prediction: Hofstra beats them once again!
  • 1pm, Texas Tech vs Oklahoma State, the Fathers & Sons game, on ESPN2, as the Knights battle the Suttons on the bench. Prediction: OK State wins and Doug Gottlieb storms the court ;-)
  • 1pm, 730pm, Navy at Lafayette, CSTV
  • 1pm, Quinn at Central Conn St, FoxCollegeSports
  • 3pm, Providence at Pitt on ESPN. UPSET ALERT SPECIAL!: Providence wins!
  • 3pm, Creighton at Southern Illinois, ESPN2. Digger Phelps is perhaps anxiously anticipating a low scoring game so he can diss the MVC once again?
  • 3pm, Colorado at Kansas State on CSN/ESPN+/FullCourt. Huggins wins!
  • 3pm, 7am, Arizona State at Oregon State, FSN/FoxCollegeSports, ASU's last best hope for a conference win, Oregon State's last best hope for a doubling their conference wins. Prediction: Oregon State in quadruple overtime
  • 3pm, 930pm, UTEP at UAB, CSTV. Prediction: UAB
  • 3pm, Free Ticket Inside College Basketball presented by Chase Free rewards or something like that on ABC (it repeats a few days later on ESPN2)
  • 5pm, Xavier at George Washington, ESPN2. Prediction: Xavier in overtime
  • 5pm, Saint Mary's at Gonzaga, FSN/FoxCollegeSports. Gonzaga actually needs to win this week if they want to beef up their at-large resume. Although I would like to point out that this Gonzaga team may have a better chance of March Madness success as an underdog, just like they did before they became a Designer Cinderella.
  • 5pm, College Gameday, the pre-game edition, from Lexington, KY. Prediction: Bilas gets dunked on by Randolph Morris
  • 6pm, Florida at Kentucky, primetime action on ESPN
  • 7pm, LB State at UCSB, FoxCollegeSports
  • 9pm, Midnight Madness on ESPN. A recap of the day's action with a fresh perspective: Tom Brennan and Doug Gottlieb



    SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2007
    LIVE GAMES
  • 6am, Game of the week rerun, selected by ESPN Classic. I do not know which game it will be, they may announce it during Midnight Madness on Saturday night. This depends on what happens on Saturday. A few candidates off the top of my head: the Duke vs Carolina men and women games, Texas at Texas A&M.
  • 930am, Outside the Lines, former Penn State center John Amaechi comes out
  • 10am, UConn at Georgia Tech on CBS. I am predicting 5 for 5 on the road teams on network TV (CBS and ABC games). UConn wins. This prediction is as shocking to me as it is to you. Why on earth did CBS select this game for national broadcast? Rewind the clock back three years, the 2004 final was Georgia Tech vs UConn and before that they met in a great game in the pre-season NIT which Georgia Tech won.
  • 1130am, ACC Sunday Night Hoops triple-header Tip-Off Show on FSN/FoxCollegeSports
  • 12pm, Boston Collage at Florida State, FSN/FoxCollegeSports. Both teams need the win but FSU has to win, and they will win! Al Thornton vs Jared Dudley matchup!
  • 1pm, Fairfield at Loyola Maryland, FoxCollegeSports. Mid-major action!
  • 2pm, 1am, 3am, Duke at Maryland, FSN/FoxCollegeSports. Once upon a time CBS and ESPN were fighting for this game. Now it's been relegated to FSN's Sunday Night Hoops. Go Gary! Go Gary! Beat the Dookies once again! Prediction: Maryland wins by 20!.
  • 4pm, 1am, Stanford at Washington, FSN/FoxCollegeSports. A must win for Washington, nice to win for Stanford. Lopez Twins vs Spencer Hawes matchup!. Every game Washington loses from here on, it is potentially a "Hello NIT" game for them. Prediction: double-overtime, but I can't see a winner. Too close to call
  • 9pm, College Gamenight, ESPN


    repeats
  • 430am, 830am, 10am, 1030am, 11am, 1130am, Hardwood Heavens on INHD covering famous basketball arenas such as the Smith Center, Rupp, Assembly Hall and the Roy Williams Fieldhouse in Kansas :-)
  • 9am, St Marys at Gonzaga, FoxCollegeSports
  • 9am, UTEP at UAB, CSTV
  • 1pm, Globetrotters documentary on some PBS stations
  • 2pm, 5am, ASU at OSU, FoxCollegeSports
  • 830pm, 3am, USC at UCLA, FoxCollegeSports
  • 11pm, 7am, LB State at UCSB (Santa Barbara), FoxCollegeSports
  • 530am, StFrancis PA at R.Morris, FoxCollegeSports



    Sneak Peek at Next Week
  • Next week features the Bracket Buster weekend on the ESPN family of networks (Friday, Saturday, Sunday).
  • Monday: Louiville at Pitt, W.Virginia at Georgetown
  • Tuesday: Texas Tech at Texas A&M, Pistol Pete diaries (not sure what this is yet)
  • Wedn: Duke at Boston College, Utah at Air Force
  • Thur: USC at Arizona
  • Fri: Start of Bracket Buster weekend
  • Sat: UCLA at Arizona, Memphis at Gonzaga, Washington at Pitt, Carolina at BC, Southern Illinois at Butler, and more Bracket Buster games
  • Sunday: Binghampton at Vermont!


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