College_GameDay_(basketball)

<i>College GameDay</i> (basketball TV program)

College GameDay (basketball TV program)

American TV series or program


College GameDay (branded as ESPN College GameDay covered by State Farm for sponsorship reasons) is an ESPN program that covers college basketball and is a spin-off of the successful college football version. Since debuting on January 22, 2005, it airs on ESPN Saturdays in the conference play section of the college basketball season at 11 A.M. ET at a different game site each week. Before 2015, the college basketball version always appeared at the ESPN Saturday Primetime game location. Since the 2014–2015 season, the show has appeared at a top game of the week, similar to the college football version. The program has also appeared at the site of the Final Four.

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In 2005, the host of the show the first four weeks was Rece Davis, but then the last four weeks Chris Fowler hosted the show. Since 2006, Davis has been the exclusive host of the show. Since the show debuted, Davis has been joined by Digger Phelps, Jalen Rose, Jay Bilas, Hubert Davis, Seth Greenberg, Jay Williams, LaPhonso Ellis and Andraya Carter as analysts. In 2008 during Championship Week, Bob Knight joined the cast, where he remained until 2012. Andy Katz has also served as a feature reporter giving up to the minute news and reports.

When College GameDay tipped off its 7th season on January 15, 2011, the show expanded to two hours, with the first hour airing on ESPNU, followed by the second hour on ESPN. The first game of the 2011 schedule marked the first time the show has originated from a site that has featured a men's and women's game played in the same day.

Duke – North Carolina is the most featured matchup, appearing 20 times on College Gameday. The next closest is Florida – Kentucky with 8 appearances. Arizona – UCLA, Kansas – Kentucky and Kansas – Texas currently sit at 4.

History

The program has appeared in many different spots throughout each basketball arena. At Kansas, they were in the program's museum; at Kentucky, they were at the entrance of the arena; at UConn, they were on the concourse; at Gonzaga, Florida, and Marquette, they were on the court; and at Duke, they were in Krzyzewskiville, the tent village outside Cameron Indoor Stadium. It is also worth noting that in recent years (except for the Final Four), the morning airings of this program have taken place on the court.

Through the 2022–2023 basketball & football seasons, 41 schools (Arizona, Arkansas, Auburn, Baylor, Boston College, Clemson, Colorado, Duke, Florida, Florida State, Houston, Indiana, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Kentucky, Louisville, LSU, Memphis, Michigan, Michigan State, Missouri, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Oregon, Pittsburgh, Purdue, Tennessee, Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, UCLA, Vanderbilt, Virginia Tech, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin) have hosted College GameDay for both basketball and football events. With the addition of Women’s teams also hosting College GameDay, only 4 schools: LSU, Tennessee, UConn And Virginia Tech have hosted both Men and Women’s programs.

Starting with the fourth season (2008), the basketball version of GameDay is broadcast in high-definition on ESPN HD.

On January 16, 2010, the 6th-season premiere of College GameDay, the show was broadcast live from the site of a women's college basketball game for the first time ever as it made an appearance at Gampel Pavilion in Storrs, Connecticut. The show covered the women's college basketball game between Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the Connecticut Huskies.

On March 9, 2013, College GameDay had a men's doubleheader from 2 different sites (Washington, D.C., and Chapel Hill, North Carolina) for the first time in the show's history. On January 18, 2014, College GameDay opened its tenth season with another men's doubleheader, this time, at The Palestra in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and at Gampel Pavilion in Storrs, Connecticut.

For the 2013 and 2014 seasons, the intro for College GameDay was Macklemore's 2013 hit, Can't Hold Us.

On April 7, 2014, longtime analyst Digger Phelps announced his retirement and would not return for the 2015 season.[1] That summer, Jalen Rose announced he would not return due to his priorities with NBA Countdown. As a result of the two departures, ESPN announced that Seth Greenberg and Jay Williams would be analysts for 2015 and beyond.[2]

On September 30, 2014, ESPN announced that College GameDay would no longer have a set schedule, just like the football version of the show. Instead, the location will be chosen the week before to give the network a better opportunity to pick games with ranked teams and interesting story lines.[3]

On October 8, 2019, Jay Williams replaced Paul Pierce as an analyst on NBA Countdown, and left College Gameday.[4] LaPhonso Ellis was announced as his replacement.

On January 10, 2023, ESPN announced it would be adding three women's college basketball shows in one season, equaling the total number of women's games they had done in the shows history, bringing the overall total for women's games to six.[5] Also since the first time since 2008, ESPN returned to the Final Four in Houston for both the Semifinal & Championship game.[6]

LaPhonso Ellis was part of significant ESPN layoffs, ending his three year run on the show. It was also announced the Jay Williams would be returning to the show.[7]

In the UK, College GameDay was shown in full during BT Sport's decade on air (2013-2023), unless live sport was being aired on all of its channels. In July 2023, BT Sport was relaunched as TNT Sports following the sale of BT Sport to Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA.[8] This saw the cessation of ESPN studio programming and therefore College Gameday is no longer shown in the UK. The football version of the show returned in November following an agreement between Sky Sports and ESPN which sees Sky Sports broadcasting three NCAA basketball games each week plus March Madness.[9] However, Gameday has not been seen on Sky Sports since the deal came into effect.

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Locations

2005

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2006

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2007

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2008

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2009

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2010

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2011

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2012

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2013

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2014

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2015

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2016

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2017

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2018

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2019

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2020

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2021

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2022

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2023

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2024

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Notes
  1. Attendance of 8,159 set a GameDay show record.
  2. GameDay attendance record was broken with a crowd of 22,144.
  3. GameDay attendance record was broken again with a crowd of 34,616. This remains the largest crowd in GameDay history.
  4. Men's & women's doubleheader.
  5. GameDay aired from Washington, D.C., on ESPNU from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. and then on ESPN from 11 a.m. to noon. The crew then traveled to Chapel Hill, NC, for the evening show at 8 p.m. on ESPN.
  6. Largest college basketball on-campus crowd in history, 35,446 [97]
  7. The February 23, 2019, show, which was supposed to be Duke vs Syracuse, was moved from Syracuse University in light of Jim Boeheim's involvement in a fatal car accident earlier that week.

Winners are listed in bold.
Home team listed in italics for neutral-site or off-campus games.
All rankings displayed for Division I teams are from the AP Poll.
Rankings displayed in parentheses refer to seeding in the NCAA Tournament.

Appearances by school

Announced and visited locations as of the March 9, 2024. All schools are listed with their current athletic brand names and conference affiliations, which do not necessarily match those of a given school during its last GameDay appearance.

The North Carolina Tar Heels and Duke Blue Devils both have been featured on GameDay a record 30 times each, with Duke and North Carolina hosting the most games at 14. The Carolina–Duke rivalry has been the most frequent matchup featured 20 times, with North Carolina leading the series 11–9 record over its rival.
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Frequent Matchups

College Gameday has attended several particular matchups with regularity.

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See also


References

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