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| image = Fox College Hoops TV program logo.jpg

| image_size = 150

| alt_name = Fox Primetime Hoops (Saturday Primetime games)
CBB on Fox
Fox College Basketball Friday (Friday primetime games)

| genre = College basketball game telecasts

| presenter = {{Plainlist|

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| country = United States

| language = English

| num_seasons = 6

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| executive_producer =

| producer =

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| location = Various NCAA arenas {{small|(game telecasts)}}
Fox Network Center, Los Angeles, California {{small|(studio segments, pregame and postgame shows)}}

| cinematography =

| camera = Multi-camera

| runtime = 120 minutes or until game ends

| company = Fox Sports

| network = {{Plainlist|

  • Fox (1995–present)
  • FS1 (2013–present)
  • FS2 (2013–present)

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| first_aired = {{start date|1995|1|1}}

| last_aired = present

| related = Fox Primetime Hoops

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Fox College Hoops (also known as Fox CBB, or Fox Primetime Hoops for Saturday primetime games and Fox College Basketball Friday for Friday primetime games{{Cite web |title=FOX Sports Feasts On College Hoops Throughout Holiday Season And Beyond |url=https://www.foxsports.com/presspass/blog/2024/11/20/fox-sports-feasts-on-college-hoops-throughout-holiday-season-and-beyond/ |access-date=November 21, 2024 |website=Fox Sports|date=20 November 2024 }}) is the branding used for Fox Sports broadcasts of college basketball for Fox, FS1 and FS2. Formally college basketball telecasts have also been carried by the Fox Sports Networks (FSN) and FX in the past (sometimes generically under the title College Hoops), the Fox College Hoops branding was introduced in 1994.

Games on Fox and FS1 include rights to the Big East, Big Ten, Big 12 and Mountain West as well as the early-season Fort Myers Tip-Off, Las Vegas Invitational, Crossroads Classic and Las Vegas Classic.

History

In 2013, Fox reached a 12-year deal to broadcast games from the Big East Conference (whose non-football schools had broken away from the conference under the Big East name, with the remainder becoming the American Athletic Conference).{{cite news|last=Rovell|first=Darren|title=Sources: Catholic 7 works on lucrative TV deal|url=http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/8817624|website=ESPN.com|language=en|date=March 1, 2013|access-date=March 11, 2019}}{{cite press release|title=New Big East, Fox Sports Formally Ink 12-Year, $500M Deal; ESPN Signs Mountain West|url=https://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com:443/en/Daily/Issues/2013/03/21/Media/Big%20East%20MWC.aspx|publisher=Advance Publications|website=SportsBusinessDaily.com|language=en|date=March 21, 2013|access-date=March 11, 2019}} CBS Sports sub-licensed rights to additional Big East games, mostly airing on CBS Sports Network.{{cite web|url=https://awfulannouncing.com/cbs/cbs-big-east-fox-2024-25.html|title=CBS will sublicense Big East basketball games from Fox through 2024-25|date=2019-05-09|website=Awful Announcing|language=en-US|access-date=2019-05-10}}

Since 2014, as part of its contract with the conference, Fox holds rights to 22 Pac-12 basketball games per-season, and splits coverage of the Pac-12 men's basketball tournament with ESPN and Pac-12 Network.{{cite news|last=Rosenblatt|first=Ryan|title=Breaking Down The Pac-12's New TV Deal With ESPN/Fox & Pac-12 Network|url=https://www.bruinsnation.com/2011/5/4/2153940/breaking-down-the-pac-12s-new-tv-deal-with-espn-fox-pac-12-network|work=Bruins Nation (SB Nation)|publisher=Vox Media|date=May 4, 2011|access-date=March 11, 2019}}

In 2014, the main Fox broadcast network first aired the early-season Las Vegas Invitational and Las Vegas Classic events. The following year, Fox Sports bought both events outright.{{cite news|last1=Ourand|first1=John|last2=Smith|first2=Michael|title=Fox takes over Vegas hoops tourneys|url=https://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com:443/en/Journal/Issues/2015/03/16/Events%20and%20Attractions/Fox%20Sports%20tournaments.aspx|publisher=Advance Publications|website=SportsBusinessDaily.com|language=en|date=March 16, 2015|access-date=March 11, 2019}}{{cite news|last=Snel|first=Alan|title=Fox Sports buys two Las Vegas college basketball tournaments|url=https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/basketball/fox-sports-buys-two-las-vegas-college-basketball-tournaments/|newspaper=Las Vegas Review-Journal|language=en-US|date=November 17, 2015|access-date=March 11, 2019}}

In 2017, Fox added coverage of selected Big Ten Conference games as part of a larger six-year contract, alongside ESPN and CBS, which had also given it rights to the conference's top football package. Fox Sports continues to operate Big Ten Network, which has carried Big Ten games since its launch in 2007.{{cite news|last=Greenstein|first=Teddy|title=Big Ten announces six-year deal with ESPN, Fox Sports worth $2.64 billion|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/college/ct-big-ten-espn-fox-sports-20170724-story.html|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|language=en-US|date=July 24, 2017|access-date=March 11, 2019}}

Beginning in the 2020–21 season, Fox holds a share of the Mountain West Conference's basketball and football packages, split with CBS.{{cite web|url=https://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/SB-Blogs/Newsletter-Media/2019/12/16.aspx|title=SBJ Media: PGA Tour, Mountain West Get New Rights Deals|website=Sports Business Daily|access-date=2019-12-17}} 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.{{cite news |last=Bucholtz|first=Andrew|date=November 9, 2021|title=Fox debuts a taller college basketball scorebug, takes criticism|url=https://awfulannouncing.com/ncaa/fox-taller-cbb-scorebug-criticism.html|work=Awful Announcing|location= |access-date=}}{{cite news |last=Kerschbaumer|first=Ken|date=November 10, 2021|title=College Hoops 2021 Tip-Off: Fox Sports Goes Big for Big East Opening Night; Intros New Graphics Look|url=https://www.sportsvideo.org/2021/11/10/college-hoops-2021-tip-off-fox-sports-goes-big-for-big-east-opening-night-intros-new-graphics-look/|work=Sports Video Group|location= |access-date=}} The network planned an unconventional broadcast for a November 23 game featuring Mark Titus and Tate Frazier (of the Fox Sports-distributed podcast Titus & Tate) commentating the game in the style of a podcast.{{cite web|last=Kerschbaumer|first=Ken|date=2021-11-10|title=College Hoops 2021 Tip-Off: Fox Sports Goes Big for Big East Opening Night; Intros New Graphics Look|url=https://www.sportsvideo.org/2021/11/10/college-hoops-2021-tip-off-fox-sports-goes-big-for-big-east-opening-night-intros-new-graphics-look/|access-date=2021-11-12|website=Sports Video Group|language=en}}

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.{{Cite web |last=Bucholtz |first=Andrew |date=2022-08-18 |title=Big Ten announces deals with Fox, CBS, NBC, including championship game splits |url=https://awfulannouncing.com/ncaa/big-ten-announces-deals-with-fox-cbs-nbc-through-2029-30.html |access-date=2022-08-18 |website=Awful Announcing |language=en-US}}{{Cite news |date=2022-08-18 |title=Big Ten lands multibillion-dollar TV deal, the richest in college sports |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/08/18/big-ten-tv-rights/ |access-date=2022-08-18 |newspaper=Washington Post}} In October 2022, Fox also renewed its rights to the Big 12 Conference, adding rights to a package of basketball games for Fox and FS1.{{Cite web |title=Big 12 reaches new media deals with ESPN, Fox |url=https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/SB-Blogs/Breaking-News/2022/10/Big-12-renews-media-deal-ESPN-Fox.aspx |access-date=2023-02-23 |website=www.sportsbusinessjournal.com}}

For the 2022–23 season, Fox added a package of Saturday primetime games branded as Fox 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.{{Cite web |date=2022-11-07 |title='FOX Primetime Hoops' Debuts December 10th |url=https://barrettsportsmedia.com/2022/11/07/fox-primetime-hoops-debuts-december-10th/ |access-date=2023-02-23 |website=Barrett Media |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Big Ten Weekly Women's Basketball Central - Feb. 21-26 |url=http://bigten.org/news/2023/2/21/general-big-ten-weekly-womens-basketball-central-feb-21-26.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230222043159/https://bigten.org/news/2023/2/21/general-big-ten-weekly-womens-basketball-central-feb-21-26.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 22, 2023 |access-date=2023-02-23 |website=Big Ten Conference |language=en}}

In April 2024, Fox Sports announced a partnership with AEG to begin hosting a new postseason tournament—the College 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.{{Cite web |last=Steinberg |first=Brian |date=2024-04-03 |title=Fox, AEG to Compete With March Madness by Launching New Post-Season Hoops Tourney 'College Basketball Crown' |url=https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/fox-college-basketball-crown-2025-post-season-tournament-march-madness-1235959326/ |access-date=2024-04-30 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}

For the 2024–25 season, as part of a strategy to dedicate Friday nights to Fox Sports programming following the move of WWE SmackDown to USA Network,{{Cite web |last=Crupi |first=Anthony |date=2024-06-14 |title=Friday Night Lights: Fox Primed for New College Football Window |url=https://www.sportico.com/business/media/2024/fox-friday-college-football-window-replaces-wwe-1234784120/ |access-date=2024-08-12 |website=Sportico.com |language=en-US}} Fox will add regular Friday primetime games.{{Cite web |date=2024-09-12 |title=BIG EAST ANNOUNCES 2024-25 MEN'S BASKETBALL SCHEDULE |url=https://www.bigeast.com/news/2024/9/12/big-east-announces-2024-25-mens-basketball-schedule.aspx#:~:text=Connecticut,%20the%20reigning%20two-time,five%20games%20on%20March%208. |access-date=2024-11-03 |website=www.bigeast.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Big Ten Unveils 2024-25 Men's Basketball Broadcast Schedule (100924) |url=https://bigten.org/mbb/article/bltb0a9f0c132c7da8e/ |access-date=2024-11-03 |website=Big Ten Conference}}

Coverage overview

Theme music

On December 7, 2018, it was announced that Fox would use John Tesh's "Roundball Rock"—the theme music of the former NBA on NBC—as its theme music for college basketball games beginning during the 2018–19 season. Beginning with 2024-25 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.{{cite news|last=Curtis|first=Charles|title=Fox Sports is bringing John Tesh's iconic 'Roundball Rock' back to basketball broadcasts|url=https://ftw.usatoday.com/2018/12/fox-sports-roundball-rock-nba-on-nbc-theme-john-tesh-video|publisher=Gannett Company|newspaper=USA Today|language=en|date=December 7, 2018|access-date=March 11, 2019}}

Personalities

= Play–by–play =

= Color commentators =

= Sideline reporters (select games) =

See also

References

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External links

  • {{Official website|http://www.foxsports.com/college-basketball}}

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