MAC Finalizes 2019 Basketball Tournament Television Schedule
CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Mid-American Conference has finalized its television schedule for the 2019 MAC Basketball Tournament. All 14 men's and women's games will air live during the March 13-16 event in Cleveland, Ohio at Quicken Loans Arena. The package will include games on ESPN+, ESPN2, CBS Sports Network (CBSSN) and FOX College Sports (FCS).
ESPN+ will air all four women’s quarterfinal games on Wednesday, all four men’s quarterfinal games on Thursday and Friday’s women’s semifinals.
Friday’s first men’s semifinal game will be televised on CBS Sports Network at 6:30 p.m. ET, while the following game will air approximately 30 minutes after at 9 PM ET on FOX College Sports and streamed on the FOX Sports app.
The Women’s Basketball Tournament Championship Game will be nationally televised on CBS Sports Network on Saturday, March 16
th at 11 a.m. ET, while the Men’s Basketball Championship game will air live on Saturday, March 16th at 7:30 p.m. on ESPN2.
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Wednesday, March 13
MAC Women’s Basketball Tournament Quarterfinal #1, 12 PM ET/11 AM CT (ESPN+)
MAC Women’s Basketball Tournament Quarterfinal #2, 30 min following* (ESPN+)
MAC Women’s Basketball Tournament Quarterfinal #3, 30 min following* (ESPN+)
MAC Women’s Basketball Tournament Quarterfinal #4, 30 min following* (ESPN+)
Thursday, March 14
MAC Men’s Basketball Tournament Quarterfinal #1, 12 PM ET/11 AM CT (ESPN+)
MAC Men’s Basketball Tournament Quarterfinal #2, 30 min following* (ESPN+)
MAC Men’s Basketball Tournament Quarterfinal #3, 6:30 PM ET/5:30 PM CT (ESPN+)
MAC Men’s Basketball Tournament Quarterfinal #4, 30 min following* (ESPN+)
Friday, March 15
MAC Women’s Basketball Semifinal #1, 11 AM ET/10 AM CT (ESPN+)
MAC Women’s Basketball Semifinal #2, Approx. 1:30 PM ET/12:30 PM CT (ESPN+)
MAC Men’s Basketball Semifinal #1, 6:30 PM ET/ 5:30 PM CT (CBS Sports Network)
MAC Men’s Basketball Semifinal #2, Approx. 9 PM ET/8 PM CT (FOX College Sports)
Saturday, March 16
MAC Women’s Basketball Championship Game, 11 AM ET/10 AM ET (CBS Sports Network)
MAC Men’s Basketball Championship Game, 7:30 PM ET/6:30 PM CT (ESPN2)
Mid-American Conference
Founded in 1946, the Mid-American Conference is an NCAA Division I, 12-member conference that sponsors 23 championships and is one of ten members of the Football Bowl Subdivison (FBS). With total enrollment of nearly 300,000 students, the league represents institutions of higher learning in five (5) states - Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New York, and Ohio.
Current MAC schools that hold full membership and the year they joined are -- East Division: University of Akron (1992), Bowling Green State University (1952), University at Buffalo (1998), Kent State University (1951), Miami University (1947), Ohio University (1946). West Division: Ball State University (1973), Central Michigan University (1971), Eastern Michigan University (1971), Northern Illinois University (1975-86, rejoined in 1997), University of Toledo (1950), Western Michigan University (1947). The conference office is based in Cleveland, Ohio.
About CBS Sports Network
CBS Sports Network, the 24-hour home of CBS Sports, is widely available through all major cable, satellite and telco distributors as well as via OTT streaming service providers YouTube TV, fuboTV, PlayStation Vue, DirecTV and Hulu. Additionally, a live CBS Sports Network stream is available through CBSSports.com and the CBS Sports App by authenticating with select providers. For more information, including a full programming schedule, go to
www.cbssportsnetwork.com
About FOX College Sports
FOX College Sports (FCS) is a set of three nationally distributed channels – FCS Pacific, FCS Central and FCS Atlantic. With more than 1,000 NCAA and high school events per year, FCS leaves no rivalry left uncovered with programming from premiere conferences such as the Pac-12, Big 12, Big Ten and BIG EAST, including a variety of football, men’s and women’s basketball, baseball, softball, volleyball, lacrosse, ice hockey and more. FCS is home to exclusive BIG EAST men’s basketball and Big 12 men’s and women’s basketball, plus an extensive lineup of collegiate coaches and magazine shows from around the country. FCS is seen by viewers in the nation’s 25 largest markets, including New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas and Atlanta, Houston, Seattle, Minneapolis and Tampa. Key distribution partners include Charter Spectrum, Cox Communications, Frontier, Mediacom Communications, Altice, Cable One, fuboTV and PlayStation Vue. FOX College Sports, where college never ends.
