2025-26 College Basketball Season: Notable Games To Watch on FOX, FS1, More
March isn't here yet, but the madness officially tips off Monday.
Monday marked the start of the men's and women's college basketball regular seasons. On FS1, fifth-ranked St. John's took care of business against Quinnipiac, and No. 7 Michigan dominated Oakland from start to finish.
Those two games mark the beginning of a loaded college basketball slate on FOX, FS1 and the rest of the FOX family of networks this season. In addition to airing some of the top matchups in the Big East and Big Ten, FOX Sports will also broadcast Big 12 hoops for the first time this season, bolstering FOX Sports' hoops slate to 274 games.
Here are some of the must-watch men's and women's games to watch across the FOX family of networks.
FOX's college hoops primetime schedule begins this weekend, with Michigan State hosting Arkansas on Saturday (7 p.m. ET). Here are some of the other notable primetime men's games:
The FOX College Basketball Friday slate officially begins on Nov. 21, when UConn and Michigan battle in the Hall of Fame Women's Showcase. Here are some of the notable men's games that are a part of the FOX hoops Friday slate:
The aforementioned UConn-Michigan game is just one of 15 women's college basketball games scheduled to air on FOX this season. A week prior, South Carolina will battle USC as part of FOX's primetime slate on Saturday, Nov. 15. There will also be a tripleheader of women's college basketball games on Martin Luther King Day (Jan. 19), highlighted by a pair of matchups in the Coretta Scott King Classic (TCU-Ohio State, Vanderbilt-Michigan). A battle between Notre Dame and UConn rounds out the tripleheader. Here are some of FOX's other notable women's games:
There are also some other can't-miss non-primetime


