Are you ready for college basketball to start again as much as we are here at Aerys NCAA? Well now you have something to plan ahead for. ESPN has announced their locations for their Saturday roadtrip games. The schedule looks like this:
| Jan 19 | Indianapolis, Ind. | 10 a.m. & 8 p.m. | No. 20 Gonzaga at Butler | 9 p.m. |
| Jan 26 | Raleigh, N.C. | 10 a.m. & 6 p.m.* | No. 13 North Carolina at No. 6 NC State | 7 p.m. |
| Feb 2 | Bloomington, Ind. | 10 a.m. & 8 p.m. | No. 5 Michigan at No. 1 Indiana | 9 p.m. |
| Feb 9 | South Bend, Ind.or Cincinnati, Ohio^ | 10 a.m. & 8 p.m. | No. 2 Louisville at No. 19 Notre Dame or Pittsburgh at Cincinnati | 9 p.m.# |
| Feb 16 | Lawrence, Kan. | 10 a.m. & 8 p.m. | No. 21 Texas at No. 4 Kansas | 9 p.m. |
| Feb 23 | Lexington, Ky. | 10 a.m. & 8 p.m. | No. 24 Missouri at No. 3 Kentucky | 9 p.m. |
| Mar 2 | Westwood, Calif. | 10 a.m. & 8 p.m. | No. 17 Arizona at No. 7 UCLA | 9 p.m. |
| Mar 9 | Washington, D.C.& Chapel Hill, N.C. | 10 a.m. & 8 p.m. | No. 10 Syracuse at Georgetown & No. 15 Duke at No. 13 North Carolina |
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* – ESPN will televise the evening edition each week at 8 p.m., except Jan. 26 when the evening show will begin at 6 p.m.
^ – Site for Feb. 9 will be announced closer to the game
# – Game not selected will air at 6 p.m. on ESPN or ESPN2
Highlights from ESPN’s media zone:
- Four of the eight sites GameDay visits in 2013 will be first-time hosts: Butler, NC State, Georgetown and Cincinnati (possible flex pick)
- Fifteen schools on the Saturday Primetime schedule are top 25 picks in ESPN.com’s men’s preseason top 25 poll: No. 1 Indiana, No. 2 Louisville, No. 3 Kentucky, No. 4 Kansas, No. 5 Michigan, No. 6 NC State, No. 7 UCLA, No. 10 Syracuse, No. 13 North Carolina, No. 15 Duke, No. 17 Arizona, No. 19 Notre Dame, No. 20 Gonzaga, No. 21 Texas and No. 24 Missouri, plus the addition of sleeper teams Butler, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati
- GameDay returns to Rupp Arena on Feb. 23, home to the show’s largest crowd at 22,144 fans on Feb. 10, 2010, for a showdown between SEC foes – No. 3 Kentucky and No. 24 Missouri
- GameDay will be making a record fifth stop on the campus of Kansas on Feb. 16 and North Carolina will be playing in a game at a GameDay site for a record 10th time with its two appearances in 2013 – Jan. 26 and March 9
- Indiana (Feb. 2) and UCLA (March 2) will both be hosting GameDay for only the second time and the first since 2008
Now if they will only leak some of the college football gameday locations….
