Oct. 4, 2005

More than 30 nationally-televised games are scheduled to feature Conference USA men's basketball teams during the 2005-06 season, C-USA Commissioner Britton Banowsky announced today. Non-conference match-ups against teams from the Big East, Big 12, Pac-10 and Mountain West combine with great conference duels featuring all 12 member institutions to highlight C-USA's national package on ESPN, ESPN2, CSTV and CBS.

ESPN and ESPN2 will combine to broadcast seven men's basketball games, beginning with a doubleheader on Saturday, Dec. 3. ESPN will feature a highly-touted Memphis team squaring off against former C-USA foe Cincinnati at 3 p.m. EST, followed by a 7 p.m. EST tip-off on ESPN2 between Arizona, a 2005 NCAA Elite Eight performer, and Houston.

New television partner CSTV will showcase 21 regular season games to a national audience, including three games in December being billed as the C-USA/Mountain West Challenge. Beginning Jan. 4, 2006, CSTV will feature a national game each Wednesday and Saturday. Memphis and East Carolina open the conference action with a game on Jan. 11 from Greenville, N.C., at 7 p.m. EST. CSTV will also offer a regional package including all 12 schools that will be announced at a later date.

CSTV will also carry early rounds of the 2006 Conference USA Men's Basketball Tournament from the FedExForum in Memphis, showing all four quarterfinal games live on Thursday, March 9, and the semifinals on March 10. CBS will once again air the championship game on Saturday, March 11 at 11:45 a.m. EST.

Additional national telecasts for men's and women's basketball remain a possibility, as well as a complete regional schedule, and will be released at a later date. A current list of C-USA men's televised basketball games scheduled thus far to follow:

2005-06 Conference USA Men's Basketball Television Schedule
All times listed are Eastern (EST)

ESPN
Saturday, December 3 - Memphis at Cincinnati - 3:00 p.m.
Monday, January 2 - Texas at Memphis - 2:30 p.m.

ESPN 2
Saturday, December 3 - Arizona at Houston - 7:00 p.m.
Tuesday, December 27 - Gonzaga at Memphis - 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday, December 28 - Oklahoma State at UAB - 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, February 22 - UTEP at Memphis - 10:00 p.m.
Thursday, March 2 - Memphis at UAB - 9:30 p.m.

CSTV
Saturday, December 3 - Utah at Rice - 1:00 p.m.
Wednesday, December 7 - TCU at Tulane - 8:00 p.m.
Friday, December 30 - TCU at SMU - 9:30 p.m.
Wednesday, January 4 - Oklahoma at SMU - 9:00 p.m.
Saturday, January 7 - George Washington at Marshall - 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday, January 11 - Memphis at East Carolina - 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, January 14 - Southern Miss at Tulsa - 5:30 p.m.
Wednesday, January 18 - Tennessee at Memphis - 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, January 21 - Houston at UAB - 6:00 p.m.
Thursday, January 26 - UAB at Memphis - 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, January 28 - UCF at Memphis - 1:00 p.m.
Wednesday, February 1 - UTEP at Houston - 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, February 4 - UAB at UCF - 3:00 p.m.
Wednesday, February 8 - UAB at UTEP - 10:00 p.m.
Saturday, February 11 - Memphis at Marshall - 4:00 p.m.
Wednesday, February 15 - East Carolina at Rice - 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, February 18 - UAB at Southern Miss - 3:00 p.m.
Wednesday, February 22 - SMU at Tulsa - 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, February 25 - Houston at UTEP - 9:00 p.m.
Wednesday, March 1 - Rice at Houston - 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, March 4 - Houston at Memphis - 9:00 p.m.
Thursday, March 9 - C-USA Men's Basketball Quarterfinal - 1:00 p.m.
Thursday, March 9 - C-USA Men's Basketball Quarterfinal - 3:30 p.m.
Thursday, March 9 - C-USA Men's Basketball Quarterfinal - 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, March 9 - C-USA Men's Basketball Quarterfinal - 9:30 p.m.
Friday, March 10 - C-USA Men's Basketball Semifinals - TBA

CBS
Saturday, March 11 - C-USA Men's Basketball Championship - 11:45 a.m.