ESPN’s annual Holiday Hoops Presented by Kay Jewelers – celebrating all of the games around the holidays – will tip off with 14 games Saturday, Dec. 15, highlighted by No. 5 Florida at No. 8 Arizona. The showdown between two of the remaining 14 unbeaten teams starts at 10 p.m. on ESPN. Additional highlights:
- ESPN3 and ESPNU will combine to televise two games recognizing the 50th anniversary of a game that changed college basketball. In March 1963, Mississippi State – with an entirely white roster – went up against the state’s “unwritten law” barring schools from competing in racially integrated events. MSU played Loyola (Ill.) Ramblers at Jenison Field House in East Lansing, Mich. On Saturday, ESPN3 will offer Mississippi State at Loyola at 8 p.m. (re-aired on ESPNU at 11 p.m.) while ESPNU will televise Tuskegee at Michigan State from Jenison Field House at 9 p.m. The Governor of Illinois, Pat Quinn, will be in attendance at Loyola and will proclaim it “The Day of Change” in his state. The ceremony will include most of the players from the 1963 game.
- ESPN will televise No. 3 Michigan against West Virginia in the Brooklyn Hoops Winter Festival Presented by Honda in Brooklyn, N.Y., at 8 p.m.
ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN3 and Longhorn Network schedule through December 16
| Sat, Dec 15 | Noon | East Carolina at No. 21 North Carolina Adam Amin & Jay Williams |
ESPNU |
| 2 p.m. | Texas A&M vs. Oklahoma (Oklahoma City) Dave Armstrong & Reid Gettys |
ESPNU | |
| 2 p.m. | Georgia Southern at Virginia Tech Byron Kerr & Cory Alexander |
ESPN3 | |
| 4:30 p.m. | Purdue vs. No. 22 Notre Dame (Indianapolis) Dave O’Brien & Dan Dakich |
ESPN2 | |
| 7 p.m. | Belmont at No. 9 Kansas Carter Blackburn & Seth Greenberg |
ESPNU | |
| 7 p.m. | Bethune-Cookman at Pittsburgh Tim Neverett & Darrin Horn |
ESPN3 | |
| 7 p.m. | Norfolk at NC State Mike Gleason & Stan Lewter |
ESPN3 | |
| 7 p.m. | Florida A&M at Clemson | ESPN3 | |
| 8 p.m. | Brooklyn Hoops Winter Festival Presented by Honda: West Virginia vs. No. 3 Michigan (Brooklyn, N.Y.) Jon Sciambi & Bill Raftery |
ESPN | |
| 8 p.m. | Mississippi State at Loyola (Ill.) Jim Barbar, Stephen Bardo & Brooke Weisbrod |
ESPN3 ** | |
| 8 p.m. | Texas State at Texas | Longhorn Network | |
| 9 p.m. | Kansas State vs. No. 14 Gonzaga (Seattle) Dave Flemming & Fran Fraschilla |
ESPN2 | |
| 9 p.m. | Tuskegee at No. 19 Michigan State (in Jenison Field House) Clay Matvick, Tim McCormick & George Smith |
ESPNU | |
| 10 p.m. | No. 5 Florida at No. 8 Arizona Dave Pasch & Miles Simon |
ESPN | |
| Sun, Dec 16 | 4 p.m. | Delaware at Villanova Mike Corey & Tim Welsh |
ESPNU |
| 6 p.m. | Eastern Kentucky at No. 10 Illinois Jim Barbar & Stephen Bardo |
ESPNU |
** Available on ESPNU at 11 p.m. ET
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