MAC Pronounces 2025-26 Nationwide TV Basketball Schedule

CLEVELAND – In conjunction with its TV companions, ESPN and CBS Sports Network, the Mid-American Conference introduced its nationwide basketball tv schedule for the 2025-26 season on Thursday. The in depth package deal options protection of MAC males’s and ladies’s basketball contests that will probably be televised nationally on the next linear platforms — ESPN2, ESPNU and CBS Sports Network.

The first wave of nationwide tv choices have been additionally introduced on Thursday, with the rest of ESPN and CBS Sports Network’s picks being 21-day wildcard choices, with video games on January 25, January 27, February 1, February 8, February 13, February 20, February 27, March 6 and March 7 to be introduced by these networks 21 days prematurely.

The MAC Men’s Basketball Tournament Quarterfinals will probably be accessible on ESPN+. For the tenth consecutive yr, the MAC Men’s Tournament Semifinals will probably be televised nationally on CBS Sports Network, whereas the Championship Game is slated to air on ESPN2 on Saturday, March 14. The MAC Women’s Tournament Quarterfinals and Semifinals will probably be on ESPN+, with CBS Sports Network set to air the MAC Women’s Tournament Championship Game on Saturday, March 14.

 

In addition to its nationwide tv package deal, all 13 MAC establishments will probably be collaborating within the league’s college content material manufacturing program with ESPN. Each establishment will present a minimal of 35 athletic occasions as a part of the settlement. Those video games will seem completely on ESPN+.

The WMU males’s basketball staff can also be slated to be featured on nationwide tv twice throughout its non-conference schedule. The Bronco males head to Ohio State on November 20 and Iowa on December 14, with each video games set to air on the Big Ten Network.

 

Basketball season is just some weeks away, with each the boys’s and ladies’s groups gearing up for his or her common season openers the week of November 3. The Western Michigan males’s staff begins its 2025-26 marketing campaign on Monday, November 3 at University Arena towards Coastal Carolina. After opening the season on the highway, the Bronco ladies’s staff has its residence opener on Sunday, November 9, towards Duquesne. Season and single-game tickets for the 2025-26 WMU males’s and ladies’s basketball seasons are on sale now at wmubroncos.com/tickets.