• 25 conference champs to be crowned exclusively on ESPN platforms March 3-12
• Full network coverage of AAC, ACC, Big 12 and SEC Tournaments
• Wall-to-wall surrounding studio coverage
• ESPN+ to exclusively stream 150+ Champ Week games

Champ Week Presented by Principal begins Friday, March 3 across ESPN platforms, featuring more than 250 men’s college basketball games and 29 conference tournaments through Sunday, March 12.

Before the reveal of the official 68-team bracket, 24 conference champions will punch their tickets to the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship. Champ Week will include more than 500 hours of men’s college basketball programming across ESPN platforms, concluding a memorable season in which ESPN presented an industry-leading 3,500 games.

Highlights

• From the opening tip to the falling confetti, full television coverage of the American Athletic Conference Men’s Basketball Championship, New York Life ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament, Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship and SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament
• Championship Saturday: day-long conference championship title games on March 11: America East (11 a.m. ET, ESPN2), MEAC (1 p.m., ESPN2), SWAC (5:30 p.m., ESPNU), Big 12 (6 p.m., ESPN), MAC (7:30 p.m., ESPN2), MAAC (7:30 p.m., ESPNU), ACC (8:30 p.m., ESPN), Big West (9:30 p.m., ESPN2), Pac-12 (10:30 p.m., ESPN) and WAC (11:30 p.m., ESPN2)
• ESPN+ will stream more than 150 tournament games from 20 conferences: America East, A10, ASUN, Big Sky, Big South, Big West, Conference USA, Horizon League, MAAC, MAC, MEAC, Missouri Valley, Ohio Valley, Patriot League, Summit League, Sun Belt, Southern, Southland, SWAC and WAC
• Alternate viewing experience, with ‘Above the Rim’ feeds available on the ESPN App for the New York Life ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament
• Trophy presentations at the ACC and SEC Tournaments will be available on the ESPN App; Big 12 and American slated for ESPN+

Conference Networks Coverage

• SECN: SEC Network will close out the 2022-23 regular season with first round, second round and quarterfinal round SEC Tournament games airing on the network, accompanied by SEC Nowon site providing live pre-game, halftime and post-game coverage on SECN throughout the tournament. Additionally, The Paul Finebaum Show will be live from Nashville on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Details
• ACCN: ACC Network is set for dedicated coverage of the New York Life ACC Men’s Tournament with first round games airing exclusively on the network along with Nothing But Net, ACCN’s signature basketball program, providing expansive surrounding coverage from the first tip to the final buzzer. Details
• Big 12 Now on ESPN+: Highlights of all games throughout the week; trophy presentation for the conference champions will be available following the championship game

Studio

Hosts Kevin Connors, Jordan Cornette, Michael Eaves, Zubin Mehenti and Kevin Negandhi, and analysts Tom Crean, Dalen Cuff, LaPhonso Ellis, Seth Greenberg and Steve Wojciechowski will discuss the matchups and latest news throughout Champ Week presented by Principal.

The College GameDay Covered by State Farm crew of Rece Davis, Jay Bilas, Ellis and Greenberg will also be live from the New York Life ACC Men’s Tournament at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, N.C., for coverage of all the tournaments, beginning Thursday, March 9. Special editions of the show will air prior to the ACC title game on Saturday, March 11 (noon, 5:30 p.m. & 8 p.m., ESPN).

ESPN.com

ESPN.com will provide regular updates to both Joe Lunardi’s Bracketology and John Gasaway’s Bubble Watch, while also providing a home for updated brackets for all 32 Division I conference tournaments as results occur. As automatic bids come off the board starting Saturday, March 4, ESPN.com will offer a real-time “tickets punched” feature, which provides details on the teams that have won their way into the field.

ESPN Tournament Challenge Games Now Open

Both the Men’s and Women’s ESPN Tournament Challenge games are now open for fans to create entries and to join or create groups. This year, both games will award Grand Prizes of $5,000 each to 10 winners, randomly drawn from among those fans who pick the National Champion.

Selection Sunday – March 12


College Basketball Live begins at noon on ESPN, with College GameDay’s Davis, Bilas, Ellis and Greenberg, as day-long programming ahead of the bracket reveal. The show leads into the final three conference championship games on ESPN and ESPN2, with the Ivy League (noon, ESPN2) SEC (1 p.m., ESPN) and American (3:15 p.m., ESPN). Additional details surrounding Selection Sunday will be announced next week.

Additionally, the 32-team bracket for the 2023 National Invitation Tournament will be unveiled on Sunday at 10 p.m., on ESPNU. All 31 games are expected to be televised on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU or ESPN+.

2023 Men’s College Basketball Champ Week Presented by Principal