The good news:
Every Big 12 conference game will be streamed by ESPN+, home and away. And UCF will now play 30 conference games (up from 24 in the AAC), so conference action gets started much sooner (March 8 at Oklahoma).
The bad news:
UCF is scaling back on the non-conference broadcasts (there are 19 OOC games at home in total).
Of those 19, UCF will broadcast 7:
-Opening Knight vs. Bryant
-Friday & Sunday vs. usf
-Midweek vs. Stetson
-Midweek vs. FAU
-Friday & Sunday vs. Central Michigan
12 games will not be broadcast:
-Final 2 vs. Bryant
-Entire Samford series
-Saturday vs. usf
-2 midweek vs. UNF
-Saturday doubleheader vs. CMU
-Midweek vs. FGCU
-Midweek vs. BCU
I believe last year UCF broadcast every OOC game except three, and I think those had direct conflicts with Sunday afternoon MBB ESPN+ home games.
It sounds like this is part of the rumored budget crunch, possibly due to the PAC additions (TMo has told shareholders they are getting $4M less than anticipated). I've heard they hope to maintain a full ESPN+ next year.
Every Big 12 conference game will be streamed by ESPN+, home and away. And UCF will now play 30 conference games (up from 24 in the AAC), so conference action gets started much sooner (March 8 at Oklahoma).
The bad news:
UCF is scaling back on the non-conference broadcasts (there are 19 OOC games at home in total).
Of those 19, UCF will broadcast 7:
-Opening Knight vs. Bryant
-Friday & Sunday vs. usf
-Midweek vs. Stetson
-Midweek vs. FAU
-Friday & Sunday vs. Central Michigan
12 games will not be broadcast:
-Final 2 vs. Bryant
-Entire Samford series
-Saturday vs. usf
-2 midweek vs. UNF
-Saturday doubleheader vs. CMU
-Midweek vs. FGCU
-Midweek vs. BCU
I believe last year UCF broadcast every OOC game except three, and I think those had direct conflicts with Sunday afternoon MBB ESPN+ home games.
It sounds like this is part of the rumored budget crunch, possibly due to the PAC additions (TMo has told shareholders they are getting $4M less than anticipated). I've heard they hope to maintain a full ESPN+ next year.
