ESPN College Hoops Marathon on Nov. 18

[BillD1984]

A marathon of 14 college basketball games on Nov. 18 -- spread over 23 consecutive hours -- will help kick off the 2008-09 college basketball season on ESPN.
The games open at midnight ET with national championship game runner-up Memphis hosting Massachusetts, where Tigers head coach John Calipari once coached. It wraps up with the two winningest programs in college hoops history -- Kentucky and North Carolina -- meeting in Chapel Hill at 9 p.m. ET.
There are games featuring teams in 14 conferences and one women's game (Iowa at Kansas, 2 p.m. ET on ESPN). It also includes four NIT semifinals and two games in the CBE Classic, including defending national champion Kansas hosting Florida Gulf Coast (9 p.m. ET, ESPN U).
Every game on ESPN and ESPN2 will be simulcast on ESPN360.com.
There will be two studio shows, including a four-hour special beginning at 6 a.m. ET. College GameDay will be in Chapel Hill at 8 p.m. ET.




• Midnight: UMass at Memphis (ESPN)
• 2 a.m.: Fresno St. at St. Mary's (ESPN)
• 4 a.m.: Idaho St. at Hawaii (ESPN)
• 6 a.m.: College Hoops Tip-Off Special (ESPN)
• 10 a.m.: Penn at Drexel (ESPN)
• Noon: Liberty at UNC-Asheville (ESPN)
• 2 p.m.: Iowa at Kansas (women) (ESPN)
• 4 p.m.: Centenary at Baylor (ESPN)
• 6 p.m.: Richmond at Syracuse (ESPN)
• 7 p.m.: NIT Regional Final-Purdue (ESPNU)
• 7:30 p.m.: NIT Regional Final-Boston College (ESPN2)
• 8 p.m.: College GameDay-Chapel Hill (ESPN)
• 9 p.m.: Kentucky at North Carolina (ESPN)
• 9 p.m.: Florida Gulf Coast at Kansas (ESPNU)
• 9:30 p.m.: NIT Regional Final-Oklahoma (ESPN2)
• 11:30 p.m.: NIT Regional Final-Arizona (ESPN2)

 

[anders5189]

Awesome! Can't wait for the season to start. Beating up on Kentucky, again, should be fun.

 

[SabresRule]

To paraphrase Ron Jaworski, "Now we're in anders' wheelhouse!"

Over/under: 1.5 losses for the Heels?

(I'll say under. This is a 'Title or Bust' year, ala the UNLV team of the early 90s)

 

[BillD1984]

BTW, this ESPN marathon gets underway immediately following the Browns-Bills MNF game.

 

[hancox]

To paraphrase Ron Jaworski, "Now we're in anders' wheelhouse!"

Over/under: 1.5 losses for the Heels?

(I'll say under. This is a 'Title or Bust' year, ala the UNLV team of the early 90s)

I think I can see one coming, to a certain team from the northeast We're going to be very very very good this year.

 

[Ramy]

Awesome! Can't wait for the season to start. Beating up on Kentucky, again, should be fun.

 

[jwfgeol]

With the way football is going, I'm sure people in Knoxville are now looking toward basketball.

Hey, we were #1 last year (for one week).

 

[toto]

Go Jayhawks. (BB & FB)

 

[risnuff]

I think I can see one coming, to a certain team from the northeast We're going to be very very very good this year.

So's another team to the south of you, of which you've had many great battles in the past, and may finally get out of the Sweet 16 this year.