• 19 Division I Champions to be Crowned
• More than 120 Matchups Available Across ESPN Platforms

ESPN’s Champ Week Presented by Principal begins across ESPN platforms on Monday, March 11, featuring more than 120 men’s college basketball games covering 21 conference tournaments through Sunday, March 17.

Before the reveal of the official 68-team bracket, 19 conference champions will punch their tickets to the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship. Champ Week will include more than 250 hours of men’s college basketball programming across ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, SEC Network, ACC Network and ESPN+, concluding a memorable season on ESPN.

Conference Coverage:

• SEC Network is posting up for the postseason in Music City with first round, second round and quarterfinal round SEC Tournament games airing on SECN. Karl Ravechwill handle afternoon play-by-play responsibilities through the quarterfinals, and Tom Hart will call the evening matchups. Analysts for the weekday games are Jimmy Dykes, Dane Bradshaw and Daymeon Fishback. Marty Smith and Alyssa Lang will share sideline duties throughout the tournament.
  • SEC Now hosts Dari Nowkhah and Peter Burns and analysts Pat Bradley, Dane Bradshaw, Daymeon Fishback and Ron Slay will team up for 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. Full details.
• The first round of the ACC Men’s Tournament presented by T. Rowe Price from Washington, D.C. will air on ACCN Tuesday, March 12. Dave O’Brien and Jay Bilas will call the first game at 2 p.m., while Wes Durham, Cory Alexander and Jim Boeheim will team up to call the 4:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. games. Dan Shulman and Bilas will call the ACC Championship game on Saturday, March 16 (8:30 p.m., ESPN).
  • Additionally, Nothing But Net will be live from the nation’s capital. Kelsey Riggs will host alongside analysts Joel Berry, Boeheim, Carlos Boozer and Luke Hancock. The team will provide pregame, halftime and postgame analysis during the first day of competition and will wrap up action from the day with an hour-long show at 11:30 p.m. Wednesday-Friday. On Saturday, Nothing But Net will air a 90-minute pre-Championship game show (7 p.m., ACCN) and an hour-long postgame show once a champion is crowned (10:30 p.m., ACCN).
• The entire Phillips 66 Big 12 Men’s Basketball Championship will stream on Big 12 Now on ESPN+, with the second round available on ESPN2 and ESPN+, the quarterfinals semifinals airing on ESPN2 and the and championship game airing on ESPN, with an ESPN+ simulcast. Jon Sciambi, Fran Fraschilla and Kris Budden are on the call for the title game.

 College GameDay

ESPN’s College GameDay Covered by State Farm® heads to Washington, D.C., this week for a special edition show ahead of the ACC Men’s Basketball Championship. The one-hour show will air from noon – 1 p.m. on ESPN live from Capital One Arena.

Host Rece Davis is joined by analysts Jay Bilas, Seth Greenberg, Andraya Carter and Jay Williams.

ESPN.com
ESPN.com will provide regular updates to 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 16, 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 ESPN Tournament Challenge presented by Allstate, Molson Coors, Chick-Fil-A and Grammarly and the Women’s ESPN Tournament Challenge presented by Capital One, Nissan and Allstate are now open for fans to create entries and to either join or create groups.

Selection Sunday
A full day-long programming slate will surround the bracket reveal on Sunday, March 17. Full details surrounding Selection Sunday coverage will be announced this week.

Additionally, the 32-team bracket for the 2024 National Invitation Tournament will be unveiled on Sunday at 9:30 p.m., on ESPN2. All 31 games are expected to be televised on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU or ESPN+.

2024 Men’s College Basketball Champ Week Presented by Principal

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Media Contact:
Julie McKay, Men’s College Basketball and College GameDay – [email protected], @McKay_Julie
Colin Bradley, Men’s College Basketball and ACC Network – [email protected], @CR7bradley