''Fox College Hoops'' (also known as ''Fox CBB'', or ''Fox Primetime Hoops'' for Saturday primetime games and ''Fox College Basketball Friday'' for Friday primetime games) is the branding used for

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broadcasts of

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for Fox, FS1 and FS2. Formally college basketball telecasts have also been carried by the

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(FSN) and FX in the past (sometimes generically under the title ''College Hoops''), the ''Fox College Hoops'' branding was introduced in 1994. Games on Fox and FS1 include rights to the Big East, Big Ten, Big 12 and Mountain West as well as the early-season Fort Myers Tip-Off, Las Vegas Invitational, Crossroads Classic and Las Vegas Classic.

History

In 2013, Fox reached a 12-year deal to broadcast games from the

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(whose non-football schools had broken away from the conference under the Big East name, with the remainder becoming the

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sub-licensed rights to additional Big East games, mostly airing on

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. Since 2014, as part of its contract with the conference, Fox holds rights to 22 Pac-12 basketball games per-season, and splits coverage of the Pac-12 men's basketball tournament with

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and Pac-12 Network. In 2014, the main Fox broadcast network first aired the early-season Las Vegas Invitational and Las Vegas Classic events. The following year, Fox Sports bought both events outright. In 2017, Fox added coverage of selected

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games as part of a larger six-year contract, alongside ESPN and CBS, which had also given it rights to the conference's top football package. Fox Sports continues to operate

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, which has carried Big Ten games since its launch in 2007. Beginning in the 2020–21 season, Fox holds a share of the

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's basketball and football packages, split with CBS. To open the 2021–22 season, Fox aired six simultaneous Big East games on November 9, 2021, with all games streaming online, and "whiparound" coverage airing on FS1. The network planned an unconventional broadcast for a November 23 game featuring Mark Titus and Tate Frazier (of the Fox Sports-distributed

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''Titus & Tate'') commentating the game in the style of a podcast. On August 18, 2022, Fox renewed its rights to the Big Ten under a seven-year deal beginning in 2023–24, maintaining 45 men's basketball games per-season on Fox and FS1, as well as selected women's games. In October 2022, Fox also renewed its rights to the

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, adding rights to a package of basketball games for Fox and FS1. For the 2022–23 season, Fox added a package of Saturday primetime games branded as ''Fox Primetime Hoops'', and announced that six women's basketball games would air on the network—including the first Big Ten women's basketball games to air on Fox. In April 2024, Fox Sports announced a partnership with

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to begin hosting a new postseason tournament—the College Basketball Crown—in Las Vegas beginning in 2025. This 16-team tournament will primarily feature teams from the Big East, Big Ten, and Big 12 conferences who did not qualify for the NCAA tournament. For the 2024–25 season, as part of a strategy to dedicate Friday nights to Fox Sports programming following the move of ''

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'' to

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, Fox will add regular Friday primetime games.

Coverage overview

(1998–2020) **

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(1998–2013) **

(1998–2020) **

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(2001–2021) **

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(2012, 2014–2016) ** Big East (2013–2020) **Battle of the USS Midway (2012) ** BB&T Classic (2012–2013) **MSG Holiday Festival (2013) **Orange Bowl Classic (2014–2015, 2018) *

(2007–present) ** Big Ten *** Big Ten men's basketball tournament *** Big Ten women's basketball tournament *

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(2013–present) **

(2013–present) ***

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****Opening round (2013–2024) ****Quarterfinals (All games, 2013–2024; Two games, 2025–present) ****Semifinals (All games, 2013–2023; One game, 2024) ****Championship (2013–2016) **

(2013–2024) *** Pac-12 Conference men's basketball tournament ****1 Quarterfinal (Every other year, 2013–2024) ****1 Semifinal (Every other year, 2013–2024) ****Championship (Every other year, 2013–2020) **

(2013–2014) **

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(2014–2015) ** Big Ten (2017–present) **

(2020–present) ** Las Vegas Invitational (2014–2019, 2021–present) ** Las Vegas Classic (2014–2019) ** Crossroads Classic (2014) **Orange Bowl classic (one game only, 2014–2015, 2019) **Pearl Harbor Classic/Invitational (2015–2016) **MSG Holiday Festival/Classic (2016–2018) **Under Armour Reunion (2016–2017) **Brooklyn Hoops Winter Festival (One game only, 2016) ** Fort Myers Tip-Off (2018–present) ** Hall of Fame Classic (One game only, 2018) **Gotham Classic (2021–present) ** College Basketball Crown (2025–present) ** Big 12 (2025–present) * Fox Sports 2 (2013–present) ** Big East (2013–present) **Brooklyn Hoops Winter Festival (2013) **Orange Bowl Classic (2016–2019) ** Las Vegas Classic (One game, 2017–2018) ** Las Vegas Invitational (One game, 2021–present) * Fox (2013–present) ** Big East (2013–present) ***

****Semifinals (1 game, 2024; Both games 2025–present) ****Championship (2016–present) **

(2014–2024) *** Pac-12 Conference men's basketball tournament ****Championship (Every other year, 2022–2024) ** Big Ten (2017–present) ** Las Vegas Invitational (Championship, 2017, 2018) ** Never Forget Tribute Classic (2017, 2022) ** Crossroads Classic (2017, 2021) ** Fort Myers Tip-Off (2020) ** College Basketball Crown (Beginning 2025) ** Big 12 (Beginning 2025)

Theme music

On December 7, 2018, it was announced that Fox would use John Tesh's " Roundball Rock"—the theme music of the former ''

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''—as its theme music for college basketball games beginning during the 2018–19 season. Beginning with 2024-25 season Fox will introduce a new theme after the NBA announced it would take the Roundball Rock theme back to NBC as part of the NBA’s new media rights deal.