Big East Announces Television Assignments for 2025-26 Men’s Basketball Season

Let’s just jump straight into the breakdown of how you’re going to watch Marquette men’s basketball season, shall we? Here’s the list of networks MU is appearing on in the regular season, sorted by total number of appearances:

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FS1: 8
Peacock: 7
TNT: 5 (4 simulcast with truTV)
ESPN+: 4
NBC: 2 (both simulcast with Peacock)
truTV: 2
ESPN: 1
Fox: 1

That’s 11 games exclusive to a streaming platform — 7 on Peacock and 4 on ESPN+ — which isn’t a majority of the 31 game schedule, but it is an awful lot of it. This was the likely end result of the new television deal which expanded NBC/Peacock’s coverage of the Big East as well as brought in ESPN+ as the provider for the Big East Digital Network as well as a chunk of the non-conference schedule for men’s basketball. Those two had to get their games one way or another, and this is how it went for Marquette.

If you’re not a completist or if you’re a season ticket holder, you’ll get through this season without ESPN+. Those four are Albany, Southern, Little Rock, and Valparaiso. All home games, all buy games. If you are a season ticket holder, you’re going to need Peacock. Six of the seven games exclusive to NBC’s streaming platform are road games, and five of them are in Big East play: at Creighton, at St. John’s, at Seton Hall, at Georgetown, and at Providence. The only home game on Peacock is Maryland, and the other one is at Purdue.

I can’t help but notice that Marquette’s weeknight home game against Dayton is exclusive to truTV, aka the channel that we all make fun of for needing to figure out where it is in the channel lineup on your cable provider when the First Four games of the NCAA tournament are starting. Making that funnier? MU’s other truTV exclusive is a Saturday afternoon contest against Central Michigan. Dayton on a Wednesday night is, in the eyes of the Big East’s TV partners, roughly equivalent in value to Central Michigan on a Saturday afternoon. You can’t make these things up.

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What else is interesting here? Oh, National Marquette Day. We knew it was the Saturday, February 7th game against Butler, but now we know it’s at 1pm and on FS1. I can’t say for certain exactly how much parts of the university outside the athletic department may have had their thumb on the scale for that assignment, but I think we can safely assume that they’re a big fan of the Fiserv Forum doors opening up at noon for that game.

Oh, the Oklahoma game. That one was still a mystery, and since it was a neutral site game, it was unclear exactly who was going to handle the television responsibilities for it. After last year’s fiasco with Georgia on FloSports, it’s nice to see that 1) the OU game is on TV and 2) It’s going to be on broadcast television with NBC picking it up. That’s good news relative to the fact that, at least as of the morning of October 1st, tickets are not exactly flying off the shelves for this game on a holiday weekend that only just now has an assigned start time.

Did I miss anything of note? Here’s the full schedule, and if something jumps out at you, shout it out in the comments.

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