One of the coolest things ESPN does every year is its 24 hour college basketball Tip-Off Marathon. For college basketball fanatics, it's a unique way to start the season with 24 straight hours of basketball on ESPN networks starting at midnight tonight and running through Tuesday. For insomniacs, at least it gives you some variety of programming options at 4 AM to go along with infomercials and House reruns. This year's slate kicks off with West Virginia at Gonzaga and ends with a doubleheader from the Champions Classic – Michigan State vs Kansas and Duke vs Kentucky. It'll also be our first chance to hear Bob Knight call a Kentucky game as he joins Dan Shulman and Dick Vitale on the call…
Tue, Nov 13 |
Midnight |
Tip-Off Marathon: Old Spice Classic: West Virginia at No. 21 Gonzaga Dave Pasch & Sean Farnham |
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2 a.m. |
Tip-Off Marathon: Davidson at New Mexico Dave Flemming & Miles Simon |
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4 a.m. |
Tip-Off Marathon: Houston Baptist at Hawaii Kanoa Leahy & Bob Valvano |
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6 a.m. |
Tip-Off Marathon: Stony Brook at Rider Bob Picozzi & Fran Fraschilla |
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8 a.m. |
Tip-Off Marathon: Northern Illinois at Valparaiso Beth Mowins& LaPhonso Ellis |
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10 a.m. |
Tip-Off Marathon: Harvard at Massachusetts Sean McDonough & Bill Raftery |
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Noon |
Tip-Off Marathon: Temple at Kent State Carter Blackburn & Mark Adams |
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2 p.m. |
Tip-Off Marathon: Detroit at St. John’s John Saunders, Fran Fraschilla & Chris Mullin |
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4 p.m. |
Tip-Off Marathon: Butler at Xavier Bob Wischusen & Dan Dakich |
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7 p.m. |
Tip-Off Marathon: State Farm Champions Classic: No. 14 Michigan State vs. No. 7 Kansas (from Atlanta) Dan Shulman, Jay Bilas, Bob Knight & Andy Katz |
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7 p.m. |
Tip-Off Marathon: Wichita State at Virginia Commonwealth Clay Matvick & Len Elmore |
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7 p.m. |
NIT Season Tip-Off: TBD (from Charlottesville, Va.) John Sadak & Cory Alexander |
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7 p.m. |
Mississippi Valley State at No. 24 Cincinnati Tom Gelehrter & Darrin Horn |
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7 p.m. |
Vermont at Connecticut Eamon McAnaney & Ron Perry |
ESPN3 & BIG EAST Network |
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8 p.m. |
Tip-Off Marathon: NIT Season Tip-Off: TBD (from Ann Arbor, Mich.) Jon Sciambi & Bruce Pearl |
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9 p.m. |
Tip-Off Marathon: State Farm Champions Classic: No. 8 Duke vs. No. 3 Kentucky (from Atlanta) Dan Shulman, Dick Vitale, Bob Knight & Andy Katz |
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9 p.m. |
Tip-Off Marathon: NIT Season Tip-Off: TBD (from Pittsburgh) Rich Hollenberg & Tim Welsh |
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10 p.m. |
Tip-Off Marathon: NIT Season Tip-Off: TBD (from Manhattan, Kan.) Mark Neely & Stephen Bardo |
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Thanks to ESPN PR for the schedule of games.