| Fox College Hoops | |
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| Also known as | Fox Primetime Hoops (Saturday Primetime games) CBB on Fox Fox College Basketball Friday (Friday primetime games) |
| Genre | College basketball game telecasts |
| Presented by | |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 6 |
| Production | |
| Production locations | Various NCAA arenas(game telecasts) Fox Network Center,Los Angeles, California(studio segments, pregame and postgame shows) |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 120 minutes or until game ends |
| Production company | Fox Sports |
| Original release | |
| Network | |
| Release | January 1, 1995 (1995-01-01) – present |
| Related | |
| Fox Primetime Hoops | |
Fox College Hoops (also known asFox CBB, orFox Primetime Hoops for Saturday primetime games andFox College Basketball Friday for Friday primetime games[1]) is the branding used forFox Sports broadcasts ofcollege basketball forFox,FS1 andFS2. Formally college basketball telecasts have also been carried by theFox Sports Networks (FSN) andFX in the past (sometimes generically under the titleCollege Hoops), theFox College Hoops branding was introduced in 1994.
Games on Fox and FS1 include rights to theBig East,Big Ten,Big 12 andMountain West as well as the early-seasonFort Myers Tip-Off,Las Vegas Invitational,Crossroads Classic andLas Vegas Classic.
In 2013, Fox reached a 12-year deal to broadcast games from theBig East Conference (whose non-football schools had broken away from the conference under the Big East name, with the remainder becoming theAmerican Athletic Conference).[2][3]CBS Sports sub-licensed rights to additional Big East games, mostly airing onCBS Sports Network.[4]
Since 2014, as part of its contract with the conference, Fox holds rights to 22Pac-12 basketball games per-season, and splits coverage of thePac-12 men's basketball tournament withESPN andPac-12 Network.[5]
In 2014, the main Fox broadcast network first aired the early-seasonLas Vegas Invitational andLas Vegas Classic events. The following year, Fox Sports bought both events outright.[6][7]
In 2017, Fox added coverage of selectedBig Ten Conference games as part of a larger six-year contract, alongside ESPN andCBS, which had also given it rights to the conference's top football package. Fox Sports continues to operateBig Ten Network, which has carried Big Ten games since its launch in 2007.[8]
Beginning in the 2020–21 season, Fox holds a share of theMountain West Conference's basketball and football packages, split with CBS.[9] To open the 2021–22 season, Fox aired six simultaneous Big East games on November 9, 2021, with all games streaming online, and "whiparound" coverage airing on FS1.[10][11] The network planned an unconventional broadcast for a November 23 game featuringMark Titus and Tate Frazier (of the Fox Sports-distributedpodcastTitus & Tate) commentating the game in the style of a podcast.[12]
On August 18, 2022, Fox renewed its rights to the Big Ten under a seven-year deal beginning in 2023–24, maintaining 45 men's basketball games per-season on Fox and FS1, as well as selected women's games.[13][14] In October 2022, Fox also renewed its rights to theBig 12 Conference, adding rights to a package of basketball games for Fox and FS1.[15]
For the2022–23 season, Fox added a package of Saturday primetime games branded asFox Primetime Hoops, and announced that six women's basketball games would air on the network—including the first Big Ten women's basketball games to air on Fox.[16][17]
In April 2024, Fox Sports announced a partnership withAEG to begin hosting a new postseason tournament—theCollege Basketball Crown—in Las Vegas beginning in 2025. This 16-team tournament will primarily feature teams from the Big East, Big Ten, and Big 12 conferences who did not qualify for the NCAA tournament.[18]
For the2024–25 season, as part of a strategy to dedicate Friday nights to Fox Sports programming following the move ofWWE SmackDown toUSA Network,[19] Fox added regular Friday primetime games.[20][21]
On December 7, 2018, it was announced that Fox would useJohn Tesh's "Roundball Rock"—the theme music of the formerNBA on NBC—as its theme music for college basketball games beginning during the 2018–19 season. Beginning with 2025-26 season Fox will introduce a new theme after the NBA announced it would take the Roundball Rock theme back to NBC as part of the NBA’s new media rights deal.[22]
