Men's Basketball Scottie Rodgers

Record Number of Basketball Games Set for Live Coverage on ESPN for 2019-20 Season

2019-20 Schedules: Men | Women

NEW ORLEANS – The Sun Belt Conference is once again setting records with its most expansive broadcast schedule for men’s and women’s basketball on the ESPN family of networks during the 2019-20 season.
 
The conference is slated to showcase a record 341 games – 327 regular-season home games (172 men and 151 women) and 18 Sun Belt Basketball Championship games (nine men and nine women). This year's ESPN broadcast schedule surpasses the league's previous high of 249 games (231 regular season and 18 championship) last year.
 
The highlights of this year's schedule includes two men's regular-season matchups on ESPN2 – South Alabama at Troy on Friday, Feb. 7 and Texas State at UTA on Friday, Feb. 28, both at 8 p.m. CT – and a tournament title game doubleheader on Sunday, March 15 with the men's championship game on ESPN2 at 1 p.m. CT and the women's championship game on ESPN3 at 6 p.m. CT.
 
The remaining home regular-season and tournament games that are a part of the conference's ESPN basketball schedule this season are set for live coverage on ESPN+.
 
The 2020 Sun Belt Men’s and Women’s Basketball Championships are both set to feature 10 teams vying for the conference's bids to the NCAA Division I Basketball Championships.
 
For the men, the tournament schedule opens with first-round games on Saturday, March 7, second-round games on Monday, March 9 and quarterfinal games on Wednesday, March 11 hosted by the higher seeds on campus sites. For the women, the tournament opens with first-round games on Tuesday, March 10 and quarterfinal games on Wednesday, March 11 hosted on campus sites.
 
The four men's and four women's teams that advance from the quarterfinals will then converge on New Orleans and the Smoothie King Center, home of the NBA's New Orleans Pelicans, for semifinals games on Saturday, March 14 and championship games on Sunday, March 15. For both tournaments, the No. 1 and No. 2 seeds will receive byes directly to the semifinals.
 
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