2010 ESPN College Basketball Announcers

Amazing to think about, but college basketball begins next week. ESPN will once again host their annual 24-hours marathon on November 16th and the Maui Invitational and other tournaments are right around the corner. ESPN will once again provide non-stop college basketball coverage throughout the year. ESPN though has made some changes to their announcing teams. Here are some of the changes via Satellite TV News.

- Dickie V returns for another year of college basketball. Dickie V will call his normal Wednesday Duke ACC game with Mike Patrick or Dan Shulman. Dickie V. will also call the Saturday Night game of the week with Shulman and Erin Andrews that will proceed College Gameday.

- Bob Knight will once again join Brent Musberger for the Big XII Monday night game. Knight will also be a part of the College Gameday crew.

- Sean McDonough, Bill Raftery, and Jay Bilas will once again form the best ESPN team to call the Big East Monday night game. Send it in Jerome!

- Changes have been made to the college basketball version of Gameday. College Basketball Gameday will now be two hours with the first hour on ESPNU and the 2nd hour on ESPN beginning at 10 AM. Rece Davis will host with Digger Phelps, Jay Bilas, Bobby Knight, and Hubert Davis.


- Three new analysts join the network:
 - Dan Dakich joins ESPN to replace Steve Lavin on the Tuesday night Big Ten games along with Dave O'Brien.
- Sean Franham also joins the network to call West Coast Conference and Western Athletic Conference games with Dave Flemming. Franham will also call Big XII Saturday games with Dan McLaughlin.
- Dereck Whittenburg, who is famous for this play, joins ESPN to call Metro Atlantic game along with Doug Sherman on Friday nights on ESPNU.

- Dave Flemming has been added to ESPN full-time. Flemming called a couple of games for ESPN last season. Giants and Stanford fans are familiar with Flemming's work. Flemming will call WCC and WAC games on Wednesday and Thursday nights. The majority of the country will probably not stay up for those games, but I'm interested in how Flemming will fair calling college basketball. Truthfully, I haven't heard Flemming call much else than baseball (which he does a fine job with) so I'm interested to hear Flemming call college basketball.

Commentators appearing in regular weekly ESPN and ESPN2 time slots — Big Monday, Super Tuesday, Wednesday Night Hoops and Thursday Night Showcase– plus Saturdays throughout the season (conference assignments can vary):

Saturday Primetime:
Jan. 15 – March 5 (ESPN: Dan Shulman, Dick Vitale, SR: Erin Andrews)

Various Days:
Select Games (ESPN: Dan Shulman, Dick Vitale)

Big Monday:
Big East (ESPN: Sean McDonough, Jay Bilas, Bill Raftery)
Big XII (ESPN: Brent Musberger, Bobby Knight, SR: Holly Rowe)

Super Tuesday:
Big Ten (ESPN: Brent Musberger or Dave O'Brien, Dan Dakich)
SEC (ESPN: Brad Nessler, Jimmy Dykes)
Various Conferences (ESPN2: Jon Sciambi, Doug Gottlieb)

Wednesday Night Hoops
ACC (ESPN: Mike Patrick or Dan Shulman, Dick Vitale, SR: Jeannine Edwards)
Big XII (ESPN: Ron Frankin, Hubert Davis or Bill Raftery)
Big East (ESPN: John Saunders, Fran Fraschilla)
WAC (ESPN: Dave Flemming, Sean Farnham)

Thursday Night Showcase:
Big East (ESPN: Dave Pasch, Doris Burke)
Big Ten (ESPN: Bob Wischusen, Stephen Bardo)
West Coast (ESPN: Dave Flemming, Sean Farnham)
SEC (ESPN: Brad Nessler, Mark Gottfried)

Saturday:
Big East (Dave Pasch, Doris Burke)
Big Ten (Dave O'Brien, Dan Dakich)
Big XII (Ron Franklin, Fran Fraschilla)
Atlantic-10 (Jon Sciambi, LaPhonso Ellis)
ACC (Mike Patrick, Len Elmore)
SEC (Brad Nessler, Jimmy Dykes)
Conference USA (Bob Wischusen, Stephen Bardo)

There is also a slate of ESPNU broadcasters that will broadcast a variety of games. There's also Big XII, Big East, and SEC Network games that will be on select broadcasts.

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