
Big East Unveils Shocking TV Lineup for 2025-26 Men’s Basketball Season—You Won’t Believe Which Games Made the Cut!
Alright, listen up — if you thought catching every Marquette men’s basketball game was gonna be straightforward this season, think again. The broadcast lineup’s a wild beast, sprawling across a slew of platforms and channels like a sprawling tournament bracket gone rogue. And that lone travel game at Madison? Yeah, the Big Ten’s got Wisconsin’s digs locked down tight, throwing a real curveball in the mix. We’re talking FS1, Peacock, TNT, ESPN+, NBC — you name it, and Marquette’s probably popping up there somewhere, sometimes simulcast, sometimes exclusive, sometimes downright quirky (cue the truTV oddities). And while season ticket holders might breathe easier skipping ESPN+, you’ll want Peacock on speed dial for a bunch of those Big East road duels. Don’t even get me started on that midweek Dayton game relegated to truTV — a channel that everyone forgets where to find until March Madness rolls around. Plus, the Oklahoma neutral-site showdown is finally landing on broadcast TV via NBC, which is a relief after last year’s streaming snafu. The schedule’s packed, the channels scattered, and your binge-watching game? You’d better be sharp. Ready to dive into all the nitty-gritty, so you don’t miss a single buzzer-beater? Let’s get to it! LEARN MORE

The lone hold out? The game at Madison, as the Big Ten’s in charge of Wisconsin’s home games.
Let’s just jump straight into the breakdown of how you’re going to watch Marquette men’s basketball season, shall we? Here’s the list of networks MU is appearing on in the regular season, sorted by total number of appearances:
FS1: 8
Peacock: 7
TNT: 5 (4 simulcast with truTV)
ESPN+: 4
NBC: 2 (both simulcast with Peacock)
truTV: 2
ESPN: 1
Fox: 1
If you’re not a completist or if you’re a season ticket holder, you’ll get through this season without ESPN+. Those four are Albany, Southern, Little Rock, and Valparaiso. All home games, all buy games. If you are a season ticket holder, you’re going to need Peacock. Six of the seven games exclusive to NBC’s streaming platform are road games, and five of them are in Big East play: at Creighton, at St. John’s, at Seton Hall, at Georgetown, and at Providence. The only home game on Peacock is Maryland, and the other one is at Purdue.
I can’t help but notice that Marquette’s weeknight home game against Dayton is exclusive to truTV, aka the channel that we all make fun of for needing to figure out where it is in the channel lineup on your cable provider when the First Four games of the NCAA tournament are starting. Making that funnier? MU’s other truTV exclusive is a Saturday afternoon contest against Central Michigan. Dayton on a Wednesday night is, in the eyes of the Big East’s TV partners, roughly equivalent in value to Central Michigan on a Saturday afternoon. You can’t make these things up.
Oh, the Oklahoma game. That one was still a mystery, and since it was a neutral site game, it was unclear exactly who was going to handle the television responsibilities for it. After last year’s fiasco with Georgia on FloSports, it’s nice to see that 1) the OU game is on TV and 2) It’s going to be on broadcast television with NBC picking it up. That’s good news relative to the fact that, at least as of the morning of October 1st, tickets are not exactly flying off the shelves for this game on a holiday weekend that only just now has an assigned start time.
Did I miss anything of note? Here’s the full schedule, and if something jumps out at you, shout it out in the comments.
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