MT Basketball: Men to play 19 broadcast games in 18-19 regular season

Oct 17, 2018 at 08:00 am by Voice Wire

MTSU Blue Raiders

Middle Tennessee men's basketball's 2018-19 schedule currently boasts 19 broadcast games across multiple networks with seven of the Blue Raiders' 12 home contests being shown on either CBS Sports Network on Facebook, ESPN+ or Stadium.

"It's great to be able to continue putting our program in front of basketball fans across the nation," Head Men's Basketball Coach Nick McDevitt said. "We look forward to expanding the Middle Tennessee basketball brand."

Four MT contests in 2018-19 will be nationally televised on the ESPN family of networks including all three games in the Bad Boy Mowers Battle 4 Atlantis. The Blue Raiders will also play on SEC Network at Vanderbilt on Dec. 5.

MT will play live on the CBS Sports Network on Facebook Watch three times in 2018-19. Those three games include the neutral site game against Ole Miss at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville on December 21.

Stadium will televise the February 9 home contest against Old Dominion. The remaining games will be broadcast on ESPN+, including home games against Murray State (December 8), FIU (January 3), FAU (January 5), UTSA (January 17), UAB (January 30), and Charlotte (February 7).

ESPN+ will also broadcast the first round of the Conference USA Championship while Stadium will show all four Conference USA Championship Quarterfinal games on Mar. 8.CBS Sports Network has the rights to the C-USA Semifinals (Mar. 9) and Finals (Mar. 10).

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About Facebook Watch
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