WASHINGTON – The 2025-26 Atlantic 10 Conference men’s basketball schedule will have 148 national media appearances for the league’s 14 members across 77 nationally televised games during the league’s 50^th Anniversary celebration season. The A-10 announced the 126-game conference schedule and TV selections for the upcoming season Thursday. All games not available on linear platforms will again stream exclusively on ESPN+.
 
Including the 64 regular season games, the 2025-26 season will mark the eighth straight year that every home game will be available to A-10 fans across the league’s three media partners: ESPN, CBS Sports, and USA Network, either on television or through streaming platforms. The schedule marks the second year of new five-year agreements with all three partners, announced last December.
 
“I want to thank our three television partners, CBS Sports, ESPN and USA Network for their work in creating a schedule that showcases key matchups and historic rivalries this season,” stated Atlantic 10 Commissioner Bernadette V. McGlade. “As the Atlantic 10 celebrate its 50^th Anniversary, basketball fans and alumni throughout the country will enjoy one of the most robust, Division I television packages in college basketball.”    
 
The schedule concludes with the A-10 Men's Basketball Championship Final on the CBS Television Network for the 17^th straight year as a part of CBS Sports’ overall Selection Sunday coverage. The game will also stream live on Paramount+. CBS Sports Network will again provide coverage of semifinal Saturday. USA Network will carry the first and second rounds and the quarterfinals on USA Network and CNBC, providing tip to buzzer coverage of all 13 games of the 2026 Championship on linear television. Every championship game will be played at PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh, Pa.
 
The 2025-26 conference season begins on December 30 with Duquesne playing at Davidson. The remaining 12 teams begin league play on New Year’s Eve (Dec. 31). Through the course of the season, there will be 58 televised conference games and six televised non-conference games as part of the A-10 package. Each of the league’s 14 teams will make at least three appearances on national TV.
 
CBS Sports Network will carry 30 games, including 26 league contests and two non-conference matchups for 28 total regular season games, plus the two championship semifinals. CBSSN will carry a trio of A-10 Friday Night Showcase games: Dayton at Saint Louis (Jan. 30), Loyola Chicago at Davidson (Feb. 6) and George Mason at George Washington (Feb. 13). CBSSN also returns its coverage of the Atlantic 10’s Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day games, with a doubleheader featuring Saint Joseph’s at VCU and George Washington at George Mason.
 
Additionally, CBS Sports Network will again produce and air four episodes of its popular college basketball show, “Inside College Basketball,” dedicated exclusively to Atlantic 10 coverage for the 10^th straight year. Branded “Inside College Basketball: A-10 Tip-Off,” the show will air prior to selected conference games. CBS Sports Network, the 24-hour home of CBS Sports, is widely available through all major cable, satellite and telco distributors as well as via OTT streaming service providers YouTube TV, fuboTV, DirecTV and Hulu. Additionally, a live CBS Sports Network stream is available through CBSSports.com and the CBS Sports App by authenticating with select providers. For more information, including a full programming schedule, go to www.cbssportsnetwork.com.
 
ESPN will also continue its A-10 Friday Night Showcase coverage for the 11th straight year, with eight Friday primetime conference games. The eight games begin Jan. 16 with Loyola Chicago at Dayton, tipping off a run of eight straight Friday night games into March, concluding with VCU at Dayton on Friday, March 6. ESPN will carry a total of 11 games across its networks, all conference matchups. There will be two Saturday games on Jan. 10 (VCU at George Mason) and Feb. 21 (Loyola Chicago at Saint Joseph’s) and a single Sunday game on Feb. 15 (Davidson at Dayton) on non-Friday linear television games. All games not carried as part of the A-10’s national television packages will stream live on ESPN+, and all A-10 games across linear ESPN networks will also be available via the ESPN App, accessible on computers, smartphones, tablets and connected devices via ESPN DTC or to fans who receive their Pay TV subscription from an affiliated provider.
 
USA Network’s A-10 schedule will again feature 35 total games on USA Network and its affiliated channels, of which 21 are regular season conference matchups, 10 are A-10 Championship games and four are non-conference matchups. USA will carry four A-10 tripleheaders, tipping off their conference play coverage on Jan. 3 with three games. There will also be tripleheaders on Jan. 10, Jan. 13 and March 7. All of USA’s games will be weekend matchups, with heavy coverage in January (seven dates, 15 games). Following a break of Olympic coverage, USA will return to A-10 broadcasts on Feb. 28 with five games over the final week of the regular season.
Atlantic 10 institutions are located in states that comprise 39.9 million television households, 33 percent of the total national market. The A-10 is in seven of the top 30 media markets, including New York (1), Chicago (3), Philadelphia (5), Washington (8), Charlotte (21), St. Louis (24) and Pittsburgh (27). All 14 institutions are within the top 65 media markets.
Additional regional and local television coverage will be announced at a later date.