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MSC Sports announces April NBA Schedule and Coverage Plans

MSC Sports revealed today its schedule and coverage plans for the NBA in April. As part of this announcement, MSC Sports revealed 3 "wild card" selections: Hawks at Nuggets on 4/6, Suns at Kings at on 4/12 and Bulls at Knicks on 4/14. Monday, April 1st:  Celtics at Hornets, 7PM, MSC+ (Rouco/Webber and Pierce/Villa) Friday, April 5th: Timberwolves at Suns, 10PM, MSC+2 (Quickly/Filborn) Saturday, April 6th:  Hawks at Nuggets, 8:30PM, MSC  (Tirico/Jackson and Van Gundy/Wright) Friday, April 12th: Suns at Kings, 10:30PM, MSC+ (Rouco/Webber) Sunday, April 14th:  Bulls at Knicks, 1PM, MSC  (Tirico/Jackson and Van Gundy/Wright) Nets at 76ers, 1PM, MSC+2 (Quickly/Filborn)

MSC Sports announces 2024 MLB Coverage Plans and full April schedule

MSC Sports announced today its full coverage plans and April schedule for the 2024 MLB season.  Joe Davis, David Ortiz and Sara Smith return as MSC Sports's lead MLB broadcasting team. Calling marquee Game of the Month and Thursday Night Baseball games all season long. Ryan Rouco and Frank Thomas return as the primary broadcast crew for Tuesday Night Baseball games on MSC+. Play-by-play announcers Jason Benetti and Frank Zaun, color commentators Devin White and Sam Scotty, and field reporter Rodrigo Williams will also be on the call for select games on MSC+. David Shappel and Ryan Rindwhistle return as the primary commentary team for games on MSC+2.  In the studio, Sara Lauding, Pedro Martinez and Dontrelle Willis return as the team for The Ultimate MLB Show presented by Geico on MSC. The show will air at 7PM ET before every Thursday Night Baseball game on MSC and before select Game of the Month games on MSC. MSC will continue to air The Ultimate MLB Show presented by Degre...

MSC Sports reveals exclusive coverage plans for 2024 Division 1 Men's Hockey Tournament

MSC Sports revealed today its exclusive coverage plans for the 2024 NCAA Division 1 Men's Hockey Tournament, across MSC Sports Extra, MSDN, MSC+2 and MSC+.  Commentary pairings include: Tom Caron and Steve Ryerzon in Maryland, with Sara Wilson joining them as a rink-side reporter for their call of the Frozen Four and National Championship, Dave Turnip and Mike Wilson in Providence, Sara Wilson and Steve Budgeon in Sioux Falls, and Lucus Micker and Deshawn Wilson in Springfield.  In the studio, Phillip Ryan-Jones and Ellis Stevenson will be featured on The Ultimate College Hockey Show in Long Island throughout the first four days. During the Frozen Four and national championship in Saint Paul, Dave Turnip, Mike Wilson and Ellis Stevenson will be live on-site to provide studio coverage. Thursday, March 28th: #1 Denver vs #4 UMass, 2PM, MSDN/MSC Sports Extra #1 Boston U vs #4 RIT, 5PM, MSDN/MSC Sports Extra #2 Maine vs #3 Cornell, 5:30PM, MSC+2 #2 Minnesota vs #3 Omaha, 8:30PM, M...

MSC Sports announces coverage plans for the Women's Frozen Four

MSC Sports revealed today its coverage plans for the 2024 Women's Division 1 Ice Hockey Tournament ("Frozen Four"). MSC Sports Extra will exlusively air the semifinals between Ohio State and Clarkson, at 4PM ET, and between Colgate and Wisconsin at 7:30PM ET on Friday, March 22nd. The championship will air at 8PM ET on MSC+2 on Sunday, March 24th.  Sara Wilson and Steve Budgeon will call all three games. Phillip Ryan-Jones and Ellis Stevenson will provide studio coverage for the championship on Sunday.

MSC Sports annouces coverage plan for 2024 Miami Open

MSC revealed today its comprehensive coverage plans for the 2024 Miami Open. MSC+ and MSC+2 will provide a record number of linear coverage hours for the tournament which will feature top Tennis stars.  On-site in Miami, hit-by-hit announcers Bill MaCatee and Brett Haber, joined by analysts Mary Carillo and Jim Courier, will be featured on MSC Sports's comprehensive coverage. Luke Warner (in Sydney, Australia) and Mike DeBeau (in Toronto, Canada) will also provide hit-by-hit commentary, joined by analysts Sara Wright (Australia) and Tabor DeGood (Canada).  MSC Sports's studio coverage will originiate from MSC's rooftop studios in Los Angeles. Host Dave Turnip will be joined by analyst Mike David to provide a secondary look and whiparound coverage, as needed.  Live From the Miami Open, presented by Allstate, will be MSC's branding for afternoon coverage throughout the tournamemt. Primetime at the Miami Open , presented by IBM, will be the primetime branding. MSC Sports A...

MSC Sports announces More NCAA Division 1 Men's Basketball Postseason Coverage Plans

MSC Sports revealed today its coverage plans for three other Men's Basketball postseason tournament's over the next several weeks.  For the NIT, Justin Kutcher and Jay Williams will call South Florida at UCF, Kevin Kugler and Seth Greenburg will call San Francisco and Cincinnati and Bradley and Cincinnati, Dave Revshine and Stephen Akromada will call App State at Wake Forest, David Johnson and Will Mitterfield will call UNLV at Princeton. Sara Kurtfield and Mary Murphey will call Virginia Tech and Ohio State. For the CBI, Will Lillington and Lamar Cooding will call first, second and third round games. Ted Robinson and Len Elmore will call the semifinals and finals.  For the NCAA Division 2 semifinals, Rich Waltz and Robbie Hummel will provide commentary. Curt Nicholson and William Turner will do studio coverage for all games on MSC+2 and MSC+, along with the NCAA Division 2 semifinals. NIT: First Round: Tuesday, March 19th: South Florida at UCF, 7PM, MSC+2 Wednesday, March 20t...

MSC Sports announces full coverage plans of the 2024 Women's March Madness Tournament

MSC Sports and ESPN revealed today its coverage plans of the 2024 NCAA Divison 1 Women's March Madness Tournament. MSC Sports Extra will be the exclusive home of the entire tourament (except games on ABC). MSC Sports and ESPN will debut a new graphic packages with its own unique look for the tournament, which is produced exclusively by MSC Sports. Select first and second round games airing on ESPN networks will use some production elements from ESPN. For the first time, every Elite 8 game will air over-the-air on MSC Sports. All-in-all, 14 Women's March Madness games will air over-the-air (13 on MSC, 1 on ABC), the most ever. MSC Sports's coverage of the Women's National Championship remains in primetime and over-the-air, at 8PM ET Sunday, April 7th on MSC. Noah Eagle, making his debut at the lead women's play-by-play commentator, Carolyn Peck, making her Women's March Madness debut for MSC Sports, and Sara Strong, will be the lead commentary team for the tourna...

MSC Sports announces Schedule, Commentators and Shoulder Programming for 2024 March Madness

MSC Sports revealed today its full schedule, commentator and shoulder programming coverage for the 2024 March Madness tournament through the first round.  Throughout the tournament, MSC Sports will produce select editions of the AT&T March Madness Tip Off and  Inside March Madness presented by Buick. Listings of these studio programs with commentators are also listed below. MSC+2 will also present The Ultimate March Madness Show presented by AT&T, which will provide live look-ins with limited commercial interuption throughout the tournament.  MSC Sports's full March Maddness schedule is as follows: Tuesday, March 19th: AT&T March Madness Tip Off, 6PM, MSC+ First Four: #16 Wagner vs #16 Howard, 6:30PM, MSC+ Inside March Madness, 8:30PM, MSC+ First Four: #10 Colorado State vs #10 Virginia, 9PM, MSC+ Inside March Madness, 11:30PM, MSC+ Commentators: Kevin Calabro, Stephen Bardo, Lauren McNight Studio: Steve Willhops, John Rothstein, Wally Szczerbiak Wednesda...

MSC Sports, TNT Sports and CBS Sports announce 2024 March Madness Schedule and Coverage Plans

MSC Sports, CBS Sports and TNT Sports will provide live coverage of all 67 games from the 2024 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship across six national television networks – MSC, MSC+, TBS, CBS, TNT and truTV – with all games streamed on NCAA March Madness Live. Games airing on TBS, TNT and truTV will also stream live on Max’s B/R Sports Add-On. Games airing on CBS will also stream live on Paramount+. Games airing on MSC and MSC+ will also stream live on MSC Sports Extra. Schedule  This season, Men's Sweet 16 games will begin on CBS at 7 p.m. and TBS/MSC at 7:30 p.m. on both Thursday, March 28 and Friday, March 29. MSC will air its first ever Sweet 16 game on Friday, March 29th at 7:30PM.  MSC Sports will air an expanded slate of second round coverage for the first time. MSC will air two games, up from one, on Sunday, March 24th, at 6PM ET and 8:30PM ET.  MSC Sports will also air an expanded slate of first round games, 10 games up from 8. MSC will air first round...

MSC Sports announces BNP Paribas Open (Indian Wells) Tennis Coverage

For the second consecutive year, MSC Sports will provide coverage of the Sunshine Double United States Tennis tournaments. Coverage begins with the BNP Paribas Open (Indian Wells). MSC Sports coverage will be based from its rooftop studio in Los Angeles.  Brett Haber and Mary Carillo, with Jimmy Arias courtside, will be the commentary team for the tournament. Bill MaCatee and Mike David will provide studio coverage all tournament long and be featured on MSC Sports's Indian Wells Highlight shows.  MSC Sports's full linear coverage is as follows: Wednesday, March 6th: Live From Indian Wells: 9PM-1AM, MSC+2 Saturday, March 9th: Live From Indian Wells: 11PM-1AM, MSC+2 Sunday, March 10th: Live From Indian Wells: 11PM-1AM, MSC+ Monday, March 11th: Live From Indian Wells: 10:30PM-1AM, MSC+ Wednesday, March 13th: Live From Indian Wells: 11PM-1AM, MSC+ Friday, March 15th: Live From Indian Wells: 3:30PM-7PM, MSC+2 Live From Indian Wells: 7PM-11PM, MSC2 Saturday, March 16th: Li...

Week 18 College Basketball Announcers

Monday, March 4th:  Weber State at Montana State, 9PM, MSC+2 (LaMont/Braun) Tuesday, March 5th: #3 Purdue at #12 Illinois, 7PM, MSC+ (Calabro/Bardo/Strong) Syracuse at Clemson, 7PM, MSC+2 (Revshine/Akromada) Virginia Tech at Louisville, 7PM, MSDN/MSC Sports Extra (Johnson/O'Neil) #25 Dayton at Saint Louis, 9PM, MSC+ (Anderson/Lappas/McNight) Florida State at Pitt, 9PM, MSC+2 (Robinson/Elmore) #21 San Diego State at UNLV, 11PM, MSC+ (Eagle/VanLangen/Mittifield) Nevada at Boise State, 11PM, MSC+2 (Jones/Jackson) Sun Belt First Round: Coastal Carolina vs. ULM, 6PM, MSC Sports Extra (Brando/Gottlieb) Tulane at #24 South Florida, 7PM, MSC Sports Extra (Celway/Culdrip) Duquesne at VCU, 7PM, MSC Sports Extra/MSC Sports Distribution Cincinnati at Oklahoma, 8PM, MSC Sports Extra (Smith/Tuuling) Air Force at Wyoming, 8:30PM, MSC Sports Extra (Phillips/White) Sun Belt First Round: Old Dominion vs. Texas State, 8:30PM, MSC Sports Extra  (Brando/Gottlieb) Wednesday, March 6th: Kent State v...

MSC Sports announces 2024 NCAA Division 1 Men's and Women's Conference Championship Schedule and Coverage Plans

MSC Sports revealed today its extensive coverage and commentary plans for 2024 NCAA Division 1 Men's and Women's Basketball Tournaments from The ACC, American, Atlantic 10, Big Sky, Big Ten, MAC, Missouri Valley Conference, Mountain West, Patriot League, Southland Conference, Sun Belt and West Coast Conference. Games from these tournaments will air across MSC, MSC+, MSC+2, MSDN and MSC Sports Extra.  MSC's coverage will feature 6 championship games avaliable over-the-air on MSC. MSC will air the championship game from The ACC in both men's and women's hoops over-the-air for the first time. MSC will also air the Big Ten women's championship game for the first time in any form. MSC will also air the Men's Championships of the American Athletic Conference, Mountain West Conference and Atlantic 10 Conference. 1 Semifinal each from the Atlantic 10 and American will also air on MSC.  Throughout the next two weeks, MSC will feature extensive studio coverage paired ...

March 2024 NASCAR Coverage Plan

Friday, March 1st: Truck Las Vegas Practice, 4:30PM, MSC+2 (Welch/Waltrip/Bagley) Truck Las Vegas Qualifying, 5PM, MSC+2 (Welch/Waltrip/Bagley) Truck Las Vegas, 9PM, MSC+ (Welch/Waltrip/Bagley/Clinchfille) Friday, March 8th: Arca Phoenix, 8PM, MSC Sports Extra (Welch/Waltrip/Clinchfille) Saturday, March 16th: Truck Bristol Practice, 3PM, MSDN/MSC Sports Extra (Welch/Waltrip/Bagley) Truck Bristol Qualifying, 3:30PM, MSDN/MSC Sports Extra (Welch/Waltrip/Bagley) Truck Bristol, 8PM, MSC+2 (Welch/Waltrip/Bagley/Clinchfille) Friday, March 22nd: Truck COTA Practice, 3:30PM, MSDN/MSC Sports Extra (Welch/Waltrip/Bagley) Truck COTA Qualifying, 4PM, MSDN/MSC Sports Extra (Welch/Waltrip/Bagley) Saturday, March 23rd: Truck COTA, 1:30PM, MSC (Bestwick/Gordon/Waltrip/Bagley)

MSC Sports announces Round of 16 Coverage of the CONCACAF Champions Cup

MSC Sports revealed today its coverage plans of the 2024 CONCACAF Champions Cup Round of 16. The 2024 CONCACAF Champions Cup will be the first to feature Inter Miami and their star Lionel Messi. To celebrate this, MSC Sports will be in Nashville for Inter Miami's Round of 16 matchup against Nashville FC. This will be the first every  CONCACAF Champions Cup matchup to be broadcast on MSC. MSC Sports's lead broadcast team of David Pasternak and Louis Rojas will be at the match with Sara Wilson pitchside. The Ultimate Soccer Show Presented by Budweiser  will be at the match as well featuring Lara Jones, Juan Garcia and Mickey Johnson. Luego Jones and Steve Fillmore will call the March 7th match between Cincinnati and Monterrey, will all other games featuring commentary from the world feed. The full schedule for the Round of 16 is as follows: Tuesday, March 5th: (All World Feed) Philadelphia vs Pachuca, 6PM, MSC Sports Extra Orlando City vs Tigres UANL, 8PM, MSC Sports E...