Dan Hurley criticizes ESPN, FS1, praises TNT for college hoops coverage
"You can’t take 10 minutes away from talking about the backup quarterback on the Lions?"
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Players Era Festival ‘in discussions’ with ESPN, Fox, Netflix, TNT for media rights deal
The tournament is expanding to 32 teams next season.
ESPN hires former referee Dee Kantner as women’s college basketball rules analyst
Kantner officiated 26 Final Fours and 16 national championships.
ESPN, Big South reach six-year media rights extension
The Big South and ESPN will have 40 years together at the end of the agreement.
ESPN not required to pay extra for expanded women’s March Madness
A decision on NCAA Tournament expansion would need to be finalized "in the coming weeks" for 2026.
Dick Vitale ‘ecstatic’ about latest health update: ‘I am cancer-free’
"He said the four words you love to hear. You are cancer-free, baby!"
Women’s tournament posts second most-watched Sweet 16 on record
While down from last year, this year's Sweet 16 was up 39% versus 2023.
Women’s tournament starts strong, lags behind Clark-crazed 2024 viewership
The first round was down 22% versus last season, but up 43% versus 2023.
Former ESPN president tried to expand NCAA Tournament to 96 teams
"We proposed immediately taking the tournament to 96 teams."
NCAA Women’s Selection Show reaches second-largest audience in 20 years
The telecast averaged 1.7 million viewers, the second-largest audience since 2005.
ESPN reveals announcers for NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament
Only three of ESPN's first and second round teams remain the same as last year.
Emotional Dick Vitale signed off at end of ACC Championship Game, his last of the season
"It's been unbelievable. A tough three years, those four cancer battles that I don't wish on anybody. Cancer sucks."
Jay Williams: ‘I do not think Alabama can win National Championship’
"Florida is a team that can win a National Championship. I do not think Alabama can."
Popular Sue Bird/Diana Taurasi altcast returns for Women’s Final Four
For the fourth year in a row, there will be a Bird & Taurasi Show altcast for the Women's Final Four and title game.
Duke-UNC draws second-largest college hoops audience of season
Saturday's game averaged 3.0 million viewers on ESPN.
ESPN sees growth in women’s college basketball viewership
The network is up 3% versus last year and 44% versus two years ago.
Dan Shulman, Jay Bilas to call SEC Tournament after years as ACC Tournament voices
Dave O'Brien and Cory Alexander will call the ACC Tournament this year.
ESPN cancels Diamond Head Classic for 2025
The event's future beyond 2025 remains unknown.
ESPN UNC-FSU broadcast hilariously undercut Dave O’Brien’s point on Leonard Hamilton smiling
O'Brien's "He is smiling more than I've ever seen him smile" was quickly followed by a shot of Hamilton not smiling.
ESPN makes questionable choice to show unconscious Duke student get hauled from stands
"It’s absolutely sickening ESPN kept the camera on this poor girl."
Dick Vitale remains optimistic about potential return to broadcast booth this season
"I will have a better feel after the scoping of my vocal cords in early January."
Dick Vitale announces he is ‘clean of cancer’
"Yes I'm cutting the nets down baby it's my National Championship!"
Dick Vitale shares update on cancer battle
"I'm constantly thinking about Dec. 12 when I have a major scan to determine if I'm cancer free after my recent 30 radiation treatments. If I am it would be my NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP!"
Kansas-Duke earns largest college hoops audience of young season
ESPN now owns nine of the ten most-watched college basketball telecasts so far this year.
Dick Vitale is battling cancer again
A biopsy found cancer in Vitale's lymph nodes.