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American Announces December Broadcast Schedule
December 03, 2020 | Men's Basketball
GREENVILLE, N.C. --- The American Athletic Conference announced the broadcast schedule and game times for all league contests in the month of December on Thursday.
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East Carolina opens conference play on Wednesday, Dec. 16, on the road against SMU at 8 p.m. ET.
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The Pirates will host Tulane in their conference home opener on Tuesday, Dec. 22, at 3:30 p.m. inside Williams Arena at Minges Coliseum before breaking for Christmas. ECU will wrap up the 2020 portion of its schedule at Wichita State on Dec. 30 at 7 p.m. ET.
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Each of the Pirates' first three conference games will be streamed on ESPN+.
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Non-conference games against UNCW (Dec.7) and North Florida (Dec. 10), originally scheduled for 6 p.m., have been moved to 5 o'clock. Those games will be streamed on ESPN+ as well.
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In Spring 2019, the American Athletic Conference and ESPN agreed to a 12-year media rights extension beginning in 2020-21. Under the agreement of the extension, hundreds of additional American Athletic Conference sports events annually will be distributed on the ESPN+ digital platform. In men's basketball, every regular season that is not distributed on ESPN's traditional television networks will be available exclusively on ESPN+.
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East Carolina opens conference play on Wednesday, Dec. 16, on the road against SMU at 8 p.m. ET.
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The Pirates will host Tulane in their conference home opener on Tuesday, Dec. 22, at 3:30 p.m. inside Williams Arena at Minges Coliseum before breaking for Christmas. ECU will wrap up the 2020 portion of its schedule at Wichita State on Dec. 30 at 7 p.m. ET.
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Each of the Pirates' first three conference games will be streamed on ESPN+.
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Non-conference games against UNCW (Dec.7) and North Florida (Dec. 10), originally scheduled for 6 p.m., have been moved to 5 o'clock. Those games will be streamed on ESPN+ as well.
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In Spring 2019, the American Athletic Conference and ESPN agreed to a 12-year media rights extension beginning in 2020-21. Under the agreement of the extension, hundreds of additional American Athletic Conference sports events annually will be distributed on the ESPN+ digital platform. In men's basketball, every regular season that is not distributed on ESPN's traditional television networks will be available exclusively on ESPN+.
December TV Schedule
Date             Time             Opponent               Network
Dec. 5             2 p.m.              Radford                     ESPN+
Dec. 7             5 p.m.              UNCW                       ESPN+
Dec. 10            5 p.m.              North Florida           ESPN+
Dec. 16            8 p.m.              at SMU*                      ESPN+
Dec. 19            1 p.m.               James Madison        ESPN+
Dec. 22            3:30 p.m.        Tulane*                        ESPN+
Dec. 30            7 p.m.             at Wichita State*       ESPN+
All times listed EST
* - American Athletic Conference games
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