Thanks to the start of college football bowl season, ESPN Prime’s broadcasting space is all taken up today. That’s why there are only 23 college basketball games on national television today, and all 23 are men’s games to boot.
With that said, there are some pretty notable games on the rundown today. There are FIVE games between two ranked opponents on deck. The only downside to this is that three of them are starting hourly at 11am Central, Noon, and 1pm today. The good part is we can just keep moving from game to game if one of them turns out to be not a thrill ride, and worst case scenario, we get to just skip from the end of #14 Indiana at #8 Kansas to the second half of #4 Alabama/#15 Gonzaga on a neutral-ish floor in Birmingham to the second half of #5 Houston visiting #2 Virginia, and that gets us all the way past 3pm.