''Fox College Hoops'' (also know as ''Fox CBB or

Fox Primetime Hoops ''Fox College Hoops'' (also know as ''Fox CBB or Fox Primetime Hoops for games airing in primetime hours'') is the branding used for Fox Sports (United States), Fox Sports broadcasts of college basketball for Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox, Fox Spo ...

for games airing in primetime hours'') is the branding used for Fox Sports broadcasts of college basketball for

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, FS1 and FS2. Formally college basketball telecasts have also been carried by the

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(FSN) and FX in the past (sometimes generically under the title ''College Hoops''), the ''Fox College Hoops'' branding was introduced in 1994. Games on Fox and FS1 include rights to the Big East, Big Ten,

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and

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as well as the early-season

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, Crossroads Classic and

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History

In 2013, Fox reached a 12-year deal to broadcast games from the Big East Conference (whose non-football schools had broken away from the conference under the Big East name, with the remainder becoming the American Athletic Conference). CBS Sports sub-licensed rights to additional Big East games, mostly airing on CBS Sports Network. Since 2014, as part of its contract with the conference, Fox holds rights to 22

basketball games per-season, and splits coverage of the Pac-12 men's basketball tournament with ESPN and

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. In 2014, the main Fox broadcast network first aired the early-season

and

events. The following year, Fox Sports bought both events outright. In 2017, Fox added coverage of selected Big Ten Conference games as part of a larger six-year contract, alongside ESPN and CBS, which had also given it rights to the conference's top football package. Fox Sports continues to operate

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, which has carried Big Ten games since its launch in 2007. Beginning in the 2020–21 season, Fox holds a share of the Mountain West Conference's basketball and football packages, split with CBS. To open the 2021–22 season, Fox aired six simultaneous Big East games on November 9, 2021, with all games streaming online, and "whiparound" coverage airing on FS1. The network planned an unconventional broadcast for a November 23 game featuring

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and Tate Frazier (of the Fox Sports-distributed podcast ''Titus & Tate'') commentating the game in the style of a podcast. On August 18, 2022, Fox renewed its rights to the Big Ten under a seven-year deal beginning in 2023–24, maintaining 45 men's basketball games per-season on Fox and FS1, as well as selected women's games. In October 2022, Fox also renewed its rights to the Big 12 Conference, adding rights to a package of basketball games for Fox and FS1. For the 2022–23 season, Fox added a package of Saturday primetime games branded as ''

'', and announced that six women's basketball games would air on the network—including the first Big Ten women's basketball games to air on Fox.

Coverage overview

(1998–2020) **

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(1998–2013) ** Big 12 Conference (1998–2020) **

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(2012, 2014–2016) ** Big East (2013–2020) **Battle of the USS Midway (2012) **

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(2012–2013) **MSG Holiday Festival (2013) **Orange Bowl Classic (2014–2015, 2018) *

(2007–present) ** Big Ten ***

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***

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* Fox Sports 1 (2013–present) ** Big East Conference (2013–present) *** Big East men's basketball tournament (All games, 2013–2016. All games except championship 2017–present.) **

(2013–present) *** Pac-12 Conference men's basketball tournament (1 Quarterfinal, 1 Semifinal, Championship, every other year, 2013–2020. 1 Quarterfinal, 1 Semifinal, every other year, 2022–present.) **

(2013–2014) ** Ivy League (2014–2015) ** Big Ten (2017–present) ** Mountain West Conference (2020–present) **

(2014–2019, 2021–present) **

(2014–2019) ** Crossroads Classic (2014) **Orange Bowl classic (one game only, 2014–2015, 2019) **Pearl Harbor Classic/Invitational (2015–2016) **MSG Holiday Festival/Classic (2016–2018) **Under Armour Reunion (2016–2017) **Brooklyn Hoops Winter Festival (One game only, 2016) **

(2018–present ** Hall of Fame Classic (One game only, 2018) **Gotham Classic (2021–present) * Fox Sports 2 (2013–present) ** Big East (2013–present) **Brooklyn Hoops Winter Festival (2013) **Orange Bowl Classic (2016–2019) **

(One game, 2017–2018) **

(One game, 2021–present) *

(2013–present) ** Big East (2013–present) *** Big East men's basketball tournament (Championship, 2016–present) **

(2014–present) *** Pac-12 Conference men's basketball tournament (Championship, every other year, 2022–present) ** Big Ten (2017–present) **

(Championship, 2017, 2018) **

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(2017, 2022) ** Crossroads Classic (2017, 2021) **

(2020)

Theme music

On December 7, 2018, it was announced that Fox would use John Tesh's "

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"—the theme music of the former '' NBA on NBC''—as its theme music for college basketball games beginning during the 2018–19 season.

Personalities

Play–by–play

* Gus Johnson (lead play-by-play) * Tim Brando *

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* Joe Davis * Brandon Gaudin * Kevin Kugler * Jason Benetti * John Fanta *

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Aaron Goldsmith Aaron Goldsmith (born August 29, 1983, in Wichita, Kansas) is an American sportscaster. Goldsmith does some of the lead play-by-play on selected games for Root Sports Northwest during the Mariners baseball season. Goldsmith also does selected ...

Alex Faust Alex Faust (born January 14, 1989) is an American television sportscaster who is currently the television play-by-play voice for the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League (NHL). He gained additional fame in 2018 when ''Jeopardy!'' hos ...

Lisa Byington Lisa Byington (born May 18, 1976) is a play-by-play announcer, studio host, and feature producer/reporter. She has broadcast games for Fox Sports (United States), Fox Sports, Fox Sports 1, FS1, Big Ten Network, CBS, Turner Sports, Pac-12 Networ ...

Color commentators

* Jim Jackson (lead analyst for Fox games) * Bill Raftery (lead analyst for FS1 games) * Nick Bahe *

Stephen Bardo Stephen Dean Bardo (born April 5, 1968) is an American retired professional basketball player who played 3 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is currently a college basketball analyst. Basketball career During his standout c ...

* Donny Marshall *

Jim Spanarkel James Gerard Spanarkel (born June 28, 1957) is an American television analyst for College Basketball on CBS and a former professional basketball player for the Philadelphia 76ers and the Dallas Mavericks. He played college basketball for Duke Un ...

* Casey Jacobsen

References

External links

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