Viewing Picks for December 30, 2015

All Times Eastern

College Basketball
Men’s
West Virginia at Virginia Tech — ESPNU, noon
Indiana at Rutgers — ESPN2, 1 p.m.
Houston at South Florida — ESPNU,  2 p.m.
Michigan at Illinois — ESPN2, 3 p.m.
Long Beach State at Duke — ACC Regional/Fox Sports Net, 4 p.m.
Northwestern at Nebraska — ESPNU, 4 p.m.
Penn State at Maryland — ESPN2, 5 p.m.
Oakland at Virginia — ESPNU, 6 p.m.
Minnesota at Ohio State — Big Ten Network, 7 p.m.
Clemson at North Carolina — ESPN2, 7 p.m.
Seton Hall at Marquette — FS1, 7 p.m.
Francis Marion at South Carolina — SEC Network Plus, 7 p.m.
Arkansas at Dayton — CBS Sports Network, 8 p.m.
Syracuse at Pittsburgh — ESPN2, 9 p.m.
Georgetown at DePaul — FS1, 9 p.m.
Cal-Davis at Boise State — Mountain West Network, 9 p.m.
Western Michigan at Vanderbilt — SEC Network, 9 p.m.
Wyoming at San Diego State — CBS Sports Network, 10 p.m.
Utah State at San Jose State — Mountain West Network, 10 p.m.
Fresno State at UNLV — ESPNU, 11 p.m.

Women’s
South Florida at Mississippi State — SEC Network, 4:30 p.m.
Central Florida at Florida — SEC Network, 7 p.m.
Kansas at Oklahoma — Fox College Sports Central, 8 p.m.
Baylor at Oklahoma State — Fox College Sports Pacific, 8 p.m.
USC at UCLA — Pac-12 Network/Pac-12 Los Angeles, 10 p.m.

College Football
Birmingham Bowl, Legion Field, Birmingham, AL
Memphis vs. Auburn — ESPN, noon

Belk Bowl, Bank of America Stadium, Charlotte, NC
Mississippi State at North Carolina State — ESPN, 3:30 p.m.

Music City Bowl, Nissan Stadium, Nashville, TN
Louisville vs. Texas A&M — ESPN, 7 p.m.

Holiday Bowl, Stadium Formerly Known as San Diego Jack Murphy, San Diego, CA
USC vs. Wisconsin — ESPN, 10:30 p.m.

Inside College Football — CBS Sports Network, 7 p.m.
Inside Pac-12 Football — Pac-12 Network, 9 p.m.
Inside Pac-12 Football — Pac-12 Network, 2 a.m. (Thursday)

College Hockey
Men’s
Great Lakes Invitational, Joe Louis Arena, Detroit, MI
3rd Place Game
Michigan State vs. Northern Michigan — Fox College Sports Atlantic, 3:30 p.m.

Maine at New Hampshire — Fox College Sports Atlantic, 7:30 p.m.

English Premier League
Sunderland vs. Liverpool — NBCSN, 3 p.m.

Premier League Live — NBCSN, 2 p.m.
Goal Zone — NBCSN, 5 p.m.

Golf
Golf Central Special: Tiger Turns 40 — Golf Channel, 6 p.m.

Hockey
IIHF 2016 World Junior Hockey Championship
Group B, Hartwall Arena, Helsinki, Finland
Czech Republic vs. Belarus — NHL Network, 7 a.m.
Slovakia vs. Finland — NHL Network, 4 p.m. (same day coverage)

Group A, Helsinki Ice Hall, Helsinki, Finland
Sweden vs. Denmark — NHL Network, 9:30 a.m.
United States vs. Switzerland — NHL Network, 1 p.m.

La Liga
Real Madrid vs. Real Sociedad — beIN Sports, 9:55 a.m.
Rayo Vallecano vs. Club Atlético de Madrid — beIN Sports, 12:10 p.m.
Barcelona vs. Real Betis — beIN Sports, 2:25 p.m.
Las Palmas vs. Granada — beIN Sports, 4:25 p.m. (joined in progress)

MLB
Hot Stove — MLB Network, 9 a.m.
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 6 p.m.

NBA
Los Angeles Lakers at Boston — NBA TV, 7:30 p.m.
Denver at Portland — NBA TV, 10 p.m.

The Starters — NBA TV, 6 p.m.
Fantasy Tip-Off — NBA TV, 6:30 p.m.
NBA TV Pregame — NBA TV, 7 p.m.
NBA TV Postgame — NBA TV, 12:30 a.m. (Thursday)

NFL
NFL HQ — NFL Network, 8 a.m.
NFL Network News: Up to the Minute — NFL Network, 4 p.m.
NFL Fantasy Live — NFL Network, 5 p.m.
Around the NFL — NFL Network, 6 p.m.
Ken Stabler: A Football Life — NFL Network, 8 p.m.
Inside the NFL: 2015 Week 16 — NFL Network, 9 p.m.
Sound FX: 2015 Week 16 — NFL Network, 10:30 p.m.

NHL
Wednesday Night Rivalry
New York Rangers at Tampa Bay — NBCSN, 8 p.m.
Philadelphia at San Jose — NBCSN, 10:30 p.m.

Hockey Central @ noon –/NHL Network, noon
NHL Live — NHL Network, 5 p.m.
NHL Live — NBCSN, 7 p.m.
NHL Tonight — NHL Network, 7 p.m.
Road to the NHL Winter Classic: Episode 3 — Epix, 10 p.m.
On the Fly — NHL Network, 10:30 p.m.
NHL Overtime — NBCSN, 1 a.m. (Thursday)

Scottish Premier League
Dundee vs. Celtic — Fox Soccer Plus, 2:40 p.m.

Soccer
The Express Xtra — beIN Sports, 5 p.m.
Real Madrid: All the Goals — beIN Sports, 6 p.m.
Barcelona: All the Goals — beIN Sports, 6:30 p.m.
ESPN FC — ESPNews, 11:30 p.m.

Sports Talk
Sport Today — BBC World News, 5:45 a.m.
Boomer & Carton — CBS Sports Network, 6 a.m.
Morning Drive: Top Golf Trips — Golf Channel, 7 a.m.
The Dan Patrick Show with guest hosts Paul Burmeister and Ross Tucker — Audience Network (AT&T U-Verse/DirecTV)/NBCSN, 9 a.m.
Sport Today — BBC World News, 9:45 a.m.
The Best of the Rich Eisen Show — Audience Network (AT&T U-Verse/DirecTV)/Root Sports (Northwest/Pittsburgh/Rocky Mountain), noon
BYU Sports Nation — BYUtv, noon
His & Hers — ESPN2, noon
Sport Today — BBC World News, 1:45 p.m.
The Doug Gottlieb Show — CBS Sports Network, 3 p.m.
The Paul Finebaum Show — SEC Network, 3 p.m.
BTN Live — Big Ten Network, 6 p.m.
Time to Schein — CBS Sports Network, 6 p.m.
SportsCenter at Night — ESPN2, 11 p.m.
Fox Sports Live — FS1, 11 p.m.
Garbage Time With Katie Nolan — FS1, midnight
Contacto Deportivo — Univision/Univision Deportes, midnight
TMZ Sports — FS1, 12:30 a.m. (Thursday)