Fox College Hoops
Fox College Hoops is Fox Sports’ brand for college basketball on Fox, FS1, and FS2. It includes Fox Primetime Hoops on Saturday nights and Fox College Basketball Friday on Fridays. The broadcasts feature a rotation of play-by-play announcers and analysts, with studio segments from Fox’s Los Angeles offices.
What Fox covers
- Major conferences: Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, and Mountain West, plus early-season events like the Fort Myers Tip-Off and Las Vegas events.
- Key events: Las Vegas Invitational/Las Vegas Classic, Crossroads Classic, and other tournaments.
- Women’s games: In recent years Fox has added women’s college basketball to its lineup, including Big Ten women’s games.
Rights and deals (highlights)
- 2013: Fox signed a 12-year deal to broadcast Big East games; some Big East games also aired on CBS platforms.
- Since 2014: Fox airs about 22 Pac-12 games per season and shares the Pac-12 men’s tournament with ESPN and Pac-12 Network.
- 2017: Fox added selected Big Ten games as part of a larger six-year contract and now operates part of the Big Ten Network.
- 2020–21: Fox began sharing Mountain West basketball and football rights with CBS.
- 2021: Fox experimented with a six-game simultaneous Big East broadcast online and a whiparound on FS1, plus a podcast-style broadcast by Titus and Frazier.
- 2022: Fox renewed its Big Ten rights for seven years starting in 2023–24 (about 45 men’s games per season on Fox/FS1) and added Big 12 rights, along with expanded women’s coverage.
- 2024: Fox announced the College Basketball Crown, a 16-team postseason tournament in Las Vegas beginning in 2025 (featuring many Big East/Big Ten/Big 12 non-NCAA teams).
- 2024–25: Fox added regular Friday primetime games to focus Friday nights on Fox programming.
Theme and branding
- Since 2018–19, Fox uses John Tesh’s Roundball Rock as its theme music. In 2025, NBC began a new NBA rights deal and had to sublicense Roundball Rock from Fox due to licensing.
This page was last edited on 3 February 2026, at 14:43 (CET).