{"id":101540,"date":"2026-10-16T09:39:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T13:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=101540"},"modified":"2026-10-16T09:39:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T13:39:53","slug":"mens-basketball-lands-4-national-tv-games-as-season-nears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/10_16_2026\/mens-basketball-lands-4-national-tv-games-as-season-nears","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s Basketball Lands 4 National TV Games as Season Nears"},"content":{"rendered":"

A pair of Toledo men\u2019s basketball home games for the 2026-27 season have been moved from Saturday to Friday so they can be televised nationally, the Mid-American Conference office announced this week.<\/p>\n

Toledo will host Buffalo on Friday, Jan. 8, at 7 p.m. in Savage Arena. The Akron game moves to Friday, Jan. 15, at 8 p.m. Both games will air on CBS Sports Network.<\/p>\n

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The men’s basketball team will have four nationally televised games for the 2026-27 season.<\/p><\/div>\n

See the Rockets\u2019 full 2026-27 schedule.<\/a><\/p>\n

Additional national TV games in February and March may be added later through the conference\u2019s 21-day wild-card selections.<\/p>\n

Two of Toledo\u2019s nonconference games will also be televised nationally. The Rockets play at Michigan State on Thursday, Nov. 5, at 8 p.m. on NBC Sports Network and Peacock, then at Michigan on Wednesday, Dec. 30, at noon on Big Ten Network.<\/p>\n

Home game times are also set. Weeknight home games tip off at 7 p.m., except the Jan. 15 Akron game. Saturday home games tip off at 2 p.m. The start time for the Dec. 5 game vs. Kent State will be announced later.<\/p>\n

Season and single-game tickets are on sale now at the Rocket Athletic Ticket Office in the Sullivan Athletic Complex at Savage Arena, by calling 419-530-GOLD (4653) or online at UTRockets.com\/tix<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"Wide<\/a>

Home games vs. Buffalo and Akron will air on CBS Sports Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":101542,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,56,96,1,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101540"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101543,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101540\/revisions\/101543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}