Fairfax, Va.—Longtime partner Mid-Atlantic Sports Network (MASN) will return this season to produce George Mason Patriots men's basketball games for the 12th consecutive season. The official cable partner will carry three games, all Atlantic 10 Conference contests.
The regional sports network will air the final three games on the Patriots Atlantic 10 schedule, bringing the number of contest on television up to 15 games. The schedule includes the UMass Minutemen who will travel to Fairfax on Saturday, Feb. 24, the final road game against VCU on February 28, and the final home game of the season with the Richmond Spiders Saturday, Mar. 3, a 7:00 p.m. game from EagleBank Arena.
The Patriots will be featured on national television 10 times this season during conference play, with games on CBS Sports Network, NBC Sports Network and Stadium. Mason will play in front of a nationally-televised audience on NBC Sports Network four times, with two of those contests at EagleBank Arena. The Patriots will host Davidson (Jan. 7) and Saint Louis (Jan. 13). The two road contests on NBCSN are against the Duquesne Dukes (Jan. 20) and Richmond Spiders (Feb. 3).
CBS Sports Network will broadcast the Patriots' home game against in-state rival VCU at 2 p.m. on January 27. The network also will air the two games Mason will play in the Cancun Challenge, November 21-22.
Mason's home contests vs. Penn State (Dec. 17), St. Bonaventure (Jan. 31) and George Washington (Feb. 10) all will be broadcast on Stadium, the new, fully programmed, multi-platform sports network with distribution across both the linear television and digital space.
Through an extensive set of media partnerships, the Atlantic 10 Conference will showcase 288 men's basketball games live via linear, digital and social media platforms during the 2017-18 season. This includes all 126 conference matchups, 83 of which will air on TV, with an additional 43 exclusively on digital and social outlets. All 13 games of the 2018 Atlantic 10 Men's Basketball Championship at Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C. will air on television via Stadium, NBCSN, CBS Sports Network and CBS Sports.
