Big Monday

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Big Monday

Genre	college basketball
Running time	2 hours
Starring	Various personalities (see below)
Country of origin	United States
Original channel	ESPN (1987-)
Original run	January 5, 1987–Present

Big Monday is a presentation of Division 1 college basketball on ESPN. The official name is Big Monday presented by Bud Light. It now shows three games every Monday at 7pm ET and 9pm ET on ESPN and at 10pm ET on ESPN2 from the beginning of January till early March. Big Monday also features a halftime report from College GameNight personalities from ESPN headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut. Big Monday also has a simucast on ESPN HD and ESPN2 HD repectively.

Since debuting on January 5, 1987, it has broadcast games from numerous conferences including: the Big East, which has been on Big Monday from 1987 and is expected to be on there till at least 2013, the Big Ten (1987-1991), the Big Eight (1992-1996), Big 12 (1997-present) and either the Mountain West Conference or the Western Athletic Conference. The Big East game is primarily at 7pm ET and the Big 12 game is primarily at 9pm ET, both on ESPN. The Mountain West or WAC game is almost always on ESPN2 at 10pm ET or later. Originally, the Big Ten Conference games were aired in the 9pm slot, before the Big 8/Big 12 games joined Big Monday in 1992. Big Monday was the first weekly presentation of college basketball on ESPN. Since then ESPN has debuted Super Tuesday, ACC Wednesday, Throwdown Thursday and Saturday Primetime.

1 Personalities
- 1.1 Current
- 1.2 Former
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Personalities

[edit] Current

Stephen Bardo: (analyst, 2007-present) Mountain West or WAC
Jay Bilas: (analyst, 2005-present) Big East
Stacey Dales: (sideline reporter, 2005 and analyst 2007-present) College GameNight
Ron Franklin: (play-by-play, 2005-present) Big 12
Fran Fraschilla: (analyst, 2005-present) Big 12
Terry Gannon: (play-by-play, 2007-present) Mountain West or WAC
Sean McDonough: (play-by-play, 2005-present) Big East
Digger Phelps: (analyst, 2005-present) College GameNight
Bill Raftery: (analyst, 2005-present) Big East
Dave Revsine: (host, 2005-present) College GameNight
Holly Rowe: (sideline reporter, 2006-present) Big 12

[edit] Former

Hubert Davis: (analyst, 2006) Mountain West or WAC
Jimmy Dykes: (analyst, 2005) Mountain West or WAC
Len Elmore: (analyst, 2006) College GameNight
Mike Jarvis: (analyst, 2005) College GameNight
Dave Pasch: (play-by-play, 2005-2006) Mountain West or WAC

[edit] See also

[edit] References

Press Release: ABC SPORTS, ESPN, ESPN2 AND ESPNU MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL TELECASTS TO FEATURE NEW AND RETURNING COMMENTATORS

[edit] External links

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