Baseball: Ranked Teams Showcased
This week’s ESPNU Thursday Night SEC Baseball Game of the Week will showcase No. 5 Florida at No. 6 Kentucky at 7:30 p.m. It will mark the first game between the top six programs this year. ESPNU will also feature No. 1 Florida State hosting Maryland in its weekly ACC Monday telecast at 7 p.m. ESPNU, ESPN2 and ESPN3 will also offer two games from two different series over the weekend.
No. 3 South Carolina at No. 13 Arkansas
(Friday at 8 p.m., ESPNU; Saturday, May 5 at 1 p.m., ESPN2 & ESPN3)
Boston College at No. 10 North Carolina
(Friday at 6 p.m., ESPN3; Sunday, May 6 at noon, ESPN3)
Men’s Lacrosse: Conference Championships
The regular season for men’s college lacrosse winds down this weekend as the BIG EAST, Ivy League and America East hold their conference championships. Action begins on ESPNU with the semifinals of the first-ever BIG EAST Men’s Lacrosse Championship on Thursday, May 3, with No. 2 Notre Dame facing St. John’s at 4:30 p.m. and No. 19 Villanova hosting No. 18 Syracuse at 7 p.m. The BIG EAST Championship final will air Sunday, May 5, at noon, on ESPNU. Full Schedule
ESPNU will unveil the 16-team bracket during the hour-long 2012 NCAA Division I Men’s Lacrosse Championship Selection Show Presented by Enterprise Rent-A-Car Sunday, May 6, at 9 p.m. ET. Additional details will follow this week.
BIG EAST Championship Semifinals
(Thursday, ESPNU & ESPN3)
No. 2 Notre Dame vs. St. John’s (4:30 p.m.)
No. 19 Villanova vs. No. 18 Syracuse (7 p.m.)
BIG EAST Championship Final
(Saturday at noon, ESPNU & ESPN3)
Eamon McAnaney, Quint Kessenich & Paul Carcaterra
Ivy League Championship Semifinals
(Friday, ESPN3)
No. 13 Cornell vs. No. 15 Yale (5 p.m.)
Brown vs. No. 10 Princeton (8 p.m.)
Joe Beninati & Matt Ward
Ivy League Championship Final
(Sunday at noon, ESPNU)
Joe Beninati & Ryan Boyle
ECAC Championship Final
(Friday at 6 p.m., ESPNU & ESPN3)
Army at No. 8 Johns Hopkins
(Saturday at 2 p.m., ESPNU)
Mike Corey & Matt Ward
America East Championship Final
(Saturday at 3 p.m., ESPN3)
Booker Corrigan & Mark Dixon
Softball: Top-10 Matchups
Softball stretches coast-to-coast this weekend across ESPN networks with six games, including three top-10 matchups.
Bethune-Cookman at Florida A&M
(Friday at 3 p.m., ESPNU)
Adam Amin & Amanda Scarborough
No. 4 Florida at No. 3 Alabama
(Saturday at 4 p.m., ESPN2)
Beth Mowins & Jessica Mendoza
Long Beach State at Cal State Fullerton (doubleheader)
(Saturday at 5:30 p.m. & 8 p.m., ESPNU)
Holly Rowe & Garland Cooper
No. 8 Texas at No. 5 Oklahoma
(Sunday at 1 p.m., ESPN)
Pam Ward & Michele Smith
No. 4 Florida at No. 3 Alabama
(Sunday at 3 p.m., ESPNU)
Beth Mowins & Jessica Mendoza
College Football Live Roundtable Counts Down the Preseason Top 20
ESPN analysts Todd Blackledge, Kirk Herbstreit, Desmond Howard, Jesse Palmer, David Pollack and Robert Smith along with college football reporter Mark Schlabach will be featured roundtable-style to provide analysis and discussion of the team’s schedule, key returning players and losses, and chances for success.
ESPN’s College Football Live preseason Top 20 poll results:
- 1. USC
- 2. LSU
- 3. Alabama
- 4. Oregon
- 5. Oklahoma
- 6. Georgia
- 7. Florida State
- 8. South Carolina
- 9. Arkansas
- 10. Michigan
- 11. West Virginia
- 12. Michigan State
- 13.Kansas State
- 14. TCU
- 15. Stanford
- 16. Wisconsin
- 17. Nebraska
- 18. Clemson
- 19. Virginia Tech
- 20. Ohio State
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