Rejoice, college hoops fans: Today is opening day of the 2024-25 NCAA Men’s Basketball season
There is wall to wall action all day and night, from IUPUI to Rider
If you are a fan of NCAA Men’s college basketball, today might be one of your favorite days on the calendar. With the excitement of the season in full swing, fans across the country are gearing up for thrilling matchups that promise to deliver edge-of-your-seat action. Whether it’s a heated rivalry game or a matchup between top-ranked teams, the atmosphere is electric as fans don their team colors and rally behind their schools.
This is more than just a game; it’s a celebration of passion, tradition, and the unpredictable nature of college sports.
Today, 19 of the top 25 teams are in action. The highlight of the day is undoubtedly the highly anticipated rematch between No. 8 Baylor and No. 6 Gonzaga.
This clash not only features two elite programs but also rekindles memories of their thrilling battle in the 2021 National Championship game, which saw Baylor win its first national championship with an 86-70 victory over the Bulldogs.
Here is a look at the entire NCAA Men’s TV slate for today.
NCAA MEN’S BASKETBALL 2024-25 OPENING DAY TV SCHEDULE
| Time | Game / TV |
|---|---|
| 11:00 am |
IU Columbus vs IUPUI
ESPN+
|
| 12:00 pm |
UNT Dallas vs UT Arlington
ESPN+
|
| 12:00 pm |
Oglethorpe vs Middle Tennessee
ESPN+
|
| 12:30 pm |
LaGrange vs Jacksonville State
ESPN+
|
| 1:00 pm |
Denver vs Stanford
ACCNX, ESPN+
|
| 4:00 pm |
Penn State York vs UMBC
ESPN+
|
| 5:00 pm |
Erskine vs Wofford
ESPN+
|
| 5:00 pm |
Marist vs Harvard
ESPN+
|
| 5:30 pm |
Sacred Heart vs Temple
ESPN+
|
| 6:00 pm |
TAMU-Corpus Christi vs Purdue
BTN
|
| 6:00 pm |
Washington College vs VMI
ESPN+
|
| 6:00 pm |
Rivier vs UMass Lowell
ESPN+
|
| 6:30 pm |
Houghton vs Niagara
ESPN+
|
| 6:30 pm |
Miami (OH) vs Appalachian State
ESPN+
|
| 6:30 pm |
Piedmont University vs Winthrop
ESPN+
|
| 7:00 pm |
Monmouth vs Michigan State
B1G+
|
| 7:00 pm |
Manhattan vs Maryland
B1G+
|
| 7:00 pm |
Wright State vs Kentucky
ESPNU
|
| 7:00 pm |
Maine vs Duke
ACCN
|
| 7:00 pm |
Buffalo vs Old Dominion
ESPN+
|
| 7:00 pm |
North Carolina Wesleyan vs East Carolina
ESPN+
|
| 7:00 pm |
Western Michigan vs Coastal Carolina
ESPN+
|
| 7:00 pm |
Ball State vs Georgia State
ESPN+
|
| 7:00 pm |
Ohio vs James Madison
ESPN+
|
| 7:00 pm |
tbd vs Sun Belt tbd
ESPN+
|
| 7:00 pm |
Northern Illinois vs Georgia Southern
ESPN+
|
| 7:00 pm |
Toledo vs Troy
ESPN+
|
| 7:00 pm |
Northern Kentucky vs Florida State
ACCNX, ESPN+
|
| 7:00 pm |
Charleston Southern vs Clemson
ACCNX, ESPN+
|
| 7:00 pm |
South Carolina Upstate vs NC State
ACCNX, ESPN+
|
| 7:00 pm |
Gardner-Webb vs Tennessee
SECN+, ESPN+
|
| 7:00 pm |
American University vs La Salle
ESPN+
|
| 7:00 pm |
New Hampshire vs UMass
ESPN+
|
| 7:00 pm |
North Florida vs South Carolina
SECN+, ESPN+
|
| 7:00 pm |
Florida Gulf Coast vs UNC Greensboro
ESPN+
|
| 7:00 pm |
Columbia International vs Furman
ESPN+
|
| 7:00 pm |
Brown vs Siena
ESPN+
|
| 7:00 pm |
Newberry vs East Tennessee State
ESPN+
|
| 7:00 pm |
Notre Dame of Maryland vs Mount St. Mary’s
ESPN+
|
| 7:00 pm |
Le Moyne vs Syracuse
ACCNX, ESPN+
|
| 7:00 pm |
Columbia vs Loyola Maryland
ESPN+
|
| 7:00 pm |
Bluffton vs Purdue Fort Wayne
ESPN+
|
| 7:00 pm |
Lakeland University vs Milwaukee
ESPN+
|
| 7:00 pm |
Defiance vs Oakland
ESPN+
|
| 7:00 pm |
Cleary University vs Detroit Mercy
ESPN+
|
| 7:00 pm |
Radford vs Pittsburgh
ACCNX, ESPN+
|
| 7:00 pm |
Trinity Baptist vs Jacksonville
ESPN+
|
| 7:00 pm |
New College of Florida vs Stetson
ESPN+
|
| 7:00 pm |
Alice Lloyd vs Eastern Kentucky
ESPN+
|
| 7:00 pm |
Lynchburg vs Queens (NC)
ESPN+
|
| 7:00 pm |
Bellarmine vs VCU
ESPN+
|
| 7:00 pm |
Navy vs Saint Joseph’s
ESPN+
|
| 7:00 pm |
Cal State Northridge vs St. Bonaventure
ESPN+
|
| 7:00 pm |
North Carolina Central vs George Mason
ESPN+
|
| 7:00 pm |
Farleigh Dickinson vs Miami
ACCNX, ESPN+
|
| 7:00 pm |
Saint Francis (PA) vs Dayton
ESPN+
|
| 7:00 pm |
William Peace vs Davidson
ESPN+
|
| 7:00 pm |
Iona vs Princeton
ESPN+
|
| 7:00 pm |
Vermont State (Lyndon) vs Dartmouth
ESPN+
|
| 7:00 pm |
Pennsylvania vs NJIT
ESPN+
|
| 7:00 pm |
Marywood vs Cornell
ESPN+
|
| 7:00 pm |
Arkansas-Pine Bluff vs Cincinnati
ESPN+
|
| 7:00 pm |
Texas A&M vs UCF
ESPN+
|
| 7:00 pm |
Robert Morris vs West Virginia
ESPN+
|
| 7:00 pm |
Morehead State vs Louisville
ACCNX, ESPN+
|
| 7:30 pm |
Binghamton vs Penn State
B1G+
|
| 7:30 pm |
Vermont vs UAB
ESPN+
|
| 7:30 pm |
tbd vs AAC tbd
ESPN+
|
| 7:30 pm |
Tennessee Tech vs Georgia
SECN+, ESPN+
|
| 7:30 pm |
West Georgia vs Mississippi State
SECN+, ESPN+
|
| 7:30 pm |
Dallas Christian vs Northwestern State
ESPN+
|
| 7:30 pm |
Bob Jones vs Western Carolina
ESPN+
|
| 7:30 pm |
LSU Alexandria vs Louisiana Tech
ESPN+
|
| 7:30 pm |
Northeastern vs Boston University
ESPN+
|
| 7:30 pm |
Randolph vs Longwood
ESPN+
|
| 7:30 pm |
York College vs Drake
ESPN+
|
| 7:30 pm |
Maryville vs Belmont
ESPN+
|
| 7:30 pm |
Mississippi College vs Samford
ESPN+
|
| 8:00 pm |
Lehigh vs Northwestern
Peacock
|
| 8:00 pm |
Holy Cross vs Wisconsin
B1G+
|
| 8:00 pm |
Cleveland State vs Michigan
BTN
|
| 8:00 pm |
Texas-Rio Grande Valley vs Nebraska
B1G+
|
| 8:00 pm |
Texas A&M-Commerce vs Iowa
B1G+
|
| 8:00 pm |
Eastern Illinois vs Illinois
B1G+
|
| 8:00 pm |
Presbyterian vs Charlotte
ESPN+
|
| 8:00 pm |
Missouri vs Memphis
ESPN+
|
| 8:00 pm |
Akron vs Arkansas State
ESPN+
|
| 8:00 pm |
Kent State vs Louisiana
ESPN+
|
| 8:00 pm |
Eastern Michigan vs Texas State
ESPN+
|
| 8:00 pm |
Bowling Green vs Southern Miss
ESPN+
|
| 8:00 pm |
Central Michigan vs South Alabama
ESPN+
|
| 8:00 pm |
Trinity vs UTSA
ESPN+
|
| 8:00 pm |
Northeastern State vs Tulsa
ESPN+
|
| 8:00 pm |
Delaware State vs Virginia Tech
ACCNX, ESPN+
|
| 8:00 pm |
Howard vs Kansas
ESPN+
|
| 8:00 pm |
Maryland-Eastern Shore vs Vanderbilt
SECN+, ESPN+
|
| 8:00 pm |
Western Colorado vs Utah Valley
ESPN+
|
| 8:00 pm |
Florida A&M vs TCU
ESPN+
|
| 8:00 pm |
Jackson State vs Houston
ESPN+
|
| 8:00 pm |
Colorado College vs Northern Colorado
ESPN+
|
| 8:00 pm |
Albany vs Army
ESPN+
|
| 8:00 pm |
tbd vs tbd
ESPN+
|
| 8:00 pm |
Westminster vs Youngstown State
ESPN+
|
| 8:00 pm |
Coppin State vs Wake Forest
ACCNX, ESPN+
|
| 8:00 pm |
Union vs Austin Peay
ESPN+
|
| 8:00 pm |
Mercyhurst vs George Washington
ESPN+
|
| 8:00 pm |
Fairfield vs Rhode Island
ESPN+
|
| 8:00 pm |
Lipscomb vs Duquesne
ESPN+
|
| 8:00 pm |
The Citadel vs Boston College
ACCNX, ESPN+
|
| 8:00 pm |
Arkansas Baptist vs Little Rock
ESPN+
|
| 8:00 pm |
Quinnipiac vs Yale
ESPN+
|
| 8:00 pm |
Mississippi Valley State vs Iowa State
ESPN+
|
| 8:00 pm |
UT Martin vs Illinois State
ESPN+
|
| 8:00 pm |
St. Francis (Ill.) vs UIC
ESPN+
|
| 8:00 pm |
Dubuque vs Northern Iowa
ESPN+
|
| 8:00 pm |
Bethel (TN) vs Murray State
ESPN+
|
| 8:00 pm |
Paul Quinn vs Lamar
ESPN+
|
| 8:00 pm |
Dean College vs Bryant
ESPN+
|
| 8:30 pm |
Florida vs South Florida
SECN
|
| 8:30 pm |
South Florida vs Florida
SECN
|
| 8:30 pm |
Tarleton vs SMU
ACCNX, ESPN+
|
| 8:30 pm |
Long Island vs Ole Miss
SECN+, ESPN+
|
| 8:30 pm |
Western New Mexico vs Southern Utah
ESPN+
|
| 8:30 pm |
Howard Payne vs Abilene Christian
ESPN+
|
| 8:30 pm |
tbd vs tbd
ESPN+
|
| 8:30 pm |
William Carey University (MS) vs SE Louisiana
ESPN+
|
| 8:30 pm |
Chicago State vs Loyola Chicago
ESPN+
|
| 8:30 pm |
Fisk vs Tennessee State
ESPN+
|
| 8:30 pm |
Westminster vs SIU Edwardsville
ESPN+
|
| 9:00 pm |
UNC Asheville vs Alabama
ESPNU
|
| 9:00 pm |
Elon vs North Carolina
ACCN
|
| 9:00 pm |
Green Bay vs Oklahoma State
ESPN+
|
| 9:00 pm |
Lindenwood vs Oklahoma
SECN+, ESPN+
|
| 9:00 pm |
Cal State Fullerton vs Grand Canyon
ESPN+
|
| 9:00 pm |
Northwest Indian vs Weber State
ESPN+
|
| 9:00 pm |
Northwest University vs Idaho
ESPN+
|
| 9:00 pm |
Hawai’i (Hilo) vs Montana
ESPN+
|
| 9:00 pm |
Park University (AZ) vs Northern Arizona
ESPN+
|
| 9:00 pm |
Sul Ross State vs UTEP
ESPN+
|
| 9:00 pm |
Western New Mexico vs New Mexico State
ESPN+
|
| 9:00 pm |
Alcorn State vs Utah
ESPN+
|
| 9:00 pm |
Eastern Washington vs Colorado
ESPN+
|
| 9:00 pm |
Nicholls vs New Mexico
Mountain West Network
|
| 9:30 pm |
North Alabama vs Air Force
Mountain West Network
|
| 9:30 pm |
North Dakota vs Colorado State
Mountain West Network
|
| 9:30 pm |
Concordia – St. Paul vs Wyoming
Mountain West Network
|
| 10:00 pm |
UT Chattanooga vs USC
BTN
|
| 10:00 pm |
Texas vs Ohio State
TNT
|
| 10:00 pm |
tbd vs WCC tbd
ESPN+
|
| 10:00 pm |
William Jessup vs Pacific
ESPN+
|
| 10:00 pm |
Towson vs Saint Mary’s
ESPN+
|
| 10:00 pm |
Utah Tech vs Oregon State
ESPN+
|
| 10:00 pm |
Life Pacific vs Loyola Marymount
ESPN+
|
| 10:00 pm |
Incarnate Word vs California Baptist
ESPN+
|
| 10:00 pm |
San Francisco State vs UC Santa Barbara
ESPN+
|
| 10:00 pm |
La Verne vs Long Beach State
ESPN+
|
| 10:00 pm |
Canisius vs Arizona
ESPN+
|
| 10:00 pm |
Western Illinois vs San Jose State
Mountain West Network
|
| 10:00 pm |
Sam Houston State vs Nevada
Nevada Sports Net, Mountain West Network
|
| 10:30 pm |
Rider vs UCLA
FS1
|
| 10:30 pm |
UC-Riverside vs Oregon
B1G+
|
| 11:00 pm |
Portland State vs Washington State
ESPN+
|
| 11:30 pm |
Baylor vs Gonzaga
ESPN2
|
| 11:30 pm |
Cal State Bakersfield vs California
ACCNX, ESPN+
|
| 11:30 pm |
Alabama State vs UNLV
Mountain West Network
|
