Where To Watch -- Complete Coverage of the BIG EAST Men’s Basketball Tournament
NEW YORK – The 2017 BIG EAST Men’s Basketball Tournament Presented by Jeep tips off Wednesday night for the 35th time at Madison Square Garden, the World’s Most Famous Arena. The first-round doubleheader starts at 7 p.m. ET.
In addition to live games on FOX Sports, the BIG EAST Tournament features wall-to-wall coverage on all different mediums, spanning all audiences and geography. See below for a comprehensive coverage outlook.
Where To Watch
• Saturday’s championship game will air on
FOX broadcast network at 5:30 p.m., for the second straight year. All other contests will air on
FS1. All games can be found on the BIG EAST Channel on the
FOX Sports GO app. Champcast?
• After the winner has been crowned, the BIG EAST and FOX will have
championship coverage from the
final buzzer to the press conferences.
FOX will have live postgame interviews with the winning coach and players.
FS1 will carry the postgame show and awards ceremony, highlighted by the tournament’s most outstanding player, the Dave Gavitt Trophy winner. After the celebration, the
cutting of the nets will be on
FOX Sports GO through the BIG EAST’s Facebook page. All
press conferences throughout the tournament will also be on
FSGO.
• FOX Sports’ game coverage also includes the network’s first use of ‘
Rail Cam,’ a robotic camera that runs on a track alongside the sideline, bringing viewers closer to the action. The 2017 BIG EAST Tournament is the first time outside of a NCAA Final Four telecast that this technology has been used in a college basketball game.
• FOX Sports, through its FOX Sports Lab initiative, is teaming with New York-based live VR broadcasting company LiveLike to deliver the BIG EAST Men’s Basketball Tournament
in virtual reality through the
FOX Sports VR app, beginning with four quarterfinal games on Thursday, March 9. With presenting sponsorship from Jeep, the immersive, four-camera VR effort includes user-selected views, with two basket and two foul line cameras as well as original 360-degree tournament content, all managed from the FOX Sports VR app’s “Virtual Suite.” There also will be a live “director’s cut” which automatically moves viewer’s vantage points around the court to keep them on top of the action. After the game, viewers can tune in and watch a tournament highlight package where users can choose replays from multiple vantage points. For more info, click
here.
• The band, dance and cheer teams from Marquette, Seton Hall, Butler and the winners of the St. John’s-Georgetown game will be live nationally from FOX Plaza on FOX & Friends morning show from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m.
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FOX 5 NY WNYW will have live hits on their morning show, Good Day New York on Thursday with an onsite “battle of the bands” from the Madison Square Garden floor featuring Butler and Creighton. From the Good Day studio, the cheer and dance teams of Butler, Creighton, Providence and the winner of the Xavier/DePaul match up will showcase their BIG EAST Tournament spirit.
On the Airwaves
•
Sirius/XM radio will air the BIG EAST Tournament semifinals and finals with the
Westwood One broadcast.
• The
This Week In The BIG EAST radio show with Kevin McNamara and John Rooke will hit the iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher and Westwood One airwaves on semifinal Friday. Tweet at #TWITBE for questions for McNamara and Rooke. Download past episodes on iTunes.
On Social
• The BIG EAST Digital Network crew with correspondents Jay Alter, John Fanta, Matt Schumacker, Megan O’Brien will host the
#BEtourney In A Minute Presented by Jeep with highlights, recaps and postgame press conference coverage across all BIG EAST Social Media accounts on the
BIG EAST’s You Tube channel. Videos will be posted nightly from the
BIG EAST Social Hub Presented by Sunkist. New this year, the Social Hub will be live on
Facebook Live. Also on Facebook live will be the Wednesday’s awards press conference.
• The BIG EAST will also produce 360 Video content for Facebook from a number of vantage points around the tournament at Madison Square Garden. GIPHY will also feature BIG EAST content in the main carousel on their sports page and create exclusive GIF content for all social platforms.
• On Thursday of the tournament, the BIG EAST will be taking over the
NCAA March Madness Snapchat and Instagram accounts. The BIG EAST will be the first conference to take over the NCAA accounts for a full day of basketball action.
• Follow the stories from the 2017 edition of the Men’s Basketball BIG EAST Tournament by following the hashtag
#BEtourney. On Snapchat, the conference will use a specialized tournament branded
geofilter at Madison Square Garden.
• The official BIG EAST social accounts are: Twitter (@BIGEASTmbb, @BIGEAST), Facebook (/bigeastconference), Snapchat and Instagram (@bigeastconf).
On the Web
• BIGEAST.com will have stats, features and recaps from all the games played at Madison Square Garden. StatBroadcast will have live stats of all the games.
Tournament Game Schedule:
Wednesday, March 8 – First Round (FS1)
7 p.m. No. 8 St. John’s vs. No. 9 Georgetown
9:30 p.m. No. 7 Xavier vs. No. 10 DePaul
Thursday, March 9 – Quarterfinals (FS1)
Noon No. 1 Villanova vs. St. John’s/Georgetown
2:30 No. 4 Marquette vs. No. 5 Seton Hall
7:00 No. 2 Butler vs. Xavier/DePaul
9:30 No. 3 Providence vs. No. 6 Creighton
Friday, March 10 – Semifinals (FS1)
6:30 Thursday afternoon winners
9:00 Thursday evening winners
Saturday, March 11 – Championship (FOX)
5:30 Semifinal winners