COMPLETE 2017-18 #WCCHOOPS SCHEDULE
SAN BRUNO, Calif. – The West Coast Conference announced its comprehensive broadcast coverage of the 2017-18 men's basketball season and every game during conference play will be televised on a national or regional level, and/or produced for broadcast on the conference's digital network,
TheW.tv.
Portland is now scheduled to have a minimum of 18 regular season games televised live on national or regional television. Five games will be aired on ESPN Networks, while seven are scheduled to air on ROOT Sports NW. Other games are expected to be added with University partner CSN Northwest as well in the region.
Collectively, the league will have 18 WCC regular season games broadcast on ESPN Networks (ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU) and a minimum of 41 additional games will air on regional television through conference and school partnerships with Spectrum SportsNet, NBC Sports California and NBC Sports Bay Area (both formerly Comcast SportsNet CA/BA), AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain (formerly ROOT Sports Rocky Mountain), ROOT Sports Northwest and BYUtv – along with the WCC Game of the Week. Additional televised games will be added throughout the season and will be updated on the 2017-18 WCCsports.com schedule.
As part of the West Coast Conference's long-term deal with Spectrum SportsNet, the broadcast home of the Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Dodgers will produce and air a West Coast Conference Game of the Week each Saturday during WCC play. The Game of the Week will be distributed to television partners throughout the WCC footprint – more than 16 million homes in all. Those games will also be available live to WCC fans outside of school television markets for free on TheW.tv.
WCC This Week – a live weekly half-hour show dedicated to WCC basketball – airs in each market every Saturday during conference play leading up to the Game of the Week. WCC This Week makes its 2017-18 debut Saturday, December 30, 2017 at 12:30 p.m. PT.
In all, TheW.tv, on Stadium (formerly Campus Insiders), will air well over 100 West Coast Conference men's basketball games this season (65 conference games) produced in HD television quality for the digital platform. Other regional television broadcasts can be seen out-of-market on TheW.tv. All broadcasts on TheW.tv are available free of charge, and can be found on-line, on smart phones and tablets, and through connected TVs.
For the second straight year, many digital broadcasts will also be available through DISH Network's Sling TV and Verizon's go90 service.
West Coast Conference play begins on Thursday, December 28, 2017. Additional out-of-market outlets will be added as they become available. For the most up-to-date schedule with game times and TV listings, visit WCCsports.com or follow
@WCChoops and
@TheWtv on Twitter.
The West Coast Conference will celebrate 10 years in Las Vegas this year when the 2018 West Coast Conference Basketball Championships returns to the Orleans Arena from March 1-6. Ticket information for the "Decade in the Desert" will be distributed at a later date.
Portland head coach Terry Porter is set to begin his second season on the sidelines with the Pilots and will have a lot of new faces on the 2017-18 roster after the program signed a decorated nine-player class to join four returners and two returning redshirts. The Pilot incoming class has been ranked as high as
No. 10 nationally by Hoop Scoop.
Click here to secure season tickets with a deposit today. Single-game tickets for all home events besides Gonzaga and BYU will be available for purchase beginning on October 18. Mini Pack, Flex Plan and other deals will be announced soon. For any ticket-related questions visit
PortlandPilots.com/Tickets, contact Dave Taylor at
taylord@up.edu, or call the Pilot Box Office at (503) 943-7525.
2017-18 WCC MEN'S BASKETBALL BROADCAST SCHEDULE (PORTLAND GAMES)
Thursday, December 28
Portland at BYU – 6:00 PM MT (BYUtv, byutv.org)
Saturday, December 30
San Francisco at Portland – 6:00 PM (ROOT NW, SPEC SN, TheW.tv)
Thursday, January 4
San Diego at Portland – 7:00 PM (ROOT NW, SPEC SN, TheW.tv)
Saturday, January 6
Portland at Santa Clara – 7:00 PM (TheW.tv)
Thursday, January 11
Portland at Gonzaga – 6:00 PM (KHQ/ROOT NW, SPEC SN, TheW.tv)
Saturday, January 13
Pacific at Portland – 7:00 PM (ROOT NW, SPEC SN, TheW.tv)
Thursday, January 18
Portland at San Diego – 7:00 PM (SPEC SN, TheW.tv)
Saturday, January 20
Portland at Loyola Marymount – 7:00 PM (SPEC SN, TheW.tv)
Thursday, January 25
Gonzaga at Portland – 8:00 PM (ESPN/2/U, WatchESPN)
Saturday, January 27
Portland at Saint Mary's – 8:00 PM (NBCS CA, SPEC SN, TheW.tv)
Thursday, February 1
Pepperdine at Portland – 7:00 PM (TheW.tv)
Saturday, February 3
Loyola Marymount at Portland – 1:00 PM (SPEC SN, NBCS CA, ROOT NW, ATT RM, TheW.tv)
Thursday, February 8
Portland at San Francisco – 7:00 PM (TheW.tv)
Saturday, February 10
Portland at Pacific – 7:00 PM (TheW.tv)
Thursday, February 15
Santa Clara at Portland – 7:00 PM (TheW.tv)
Saturday, February 17
Saint Mary's at Portland – 7:00 PM (ROOT NW, SPEC SN, TheW.tv)
Thursday, February 22
BYU at Portland – 8:00 PM (ESPNU, WatchESPN)
Saturday, February 24
Portland at Pepperdine – 5:00 PM (TheW.tv)
Notes:
All times Pacific, unless noted
SPEC SN = Spectrum SportsNet
NBCS CA = NBC Sports California
NBCS BA = NBC Sports Bay Area
NBC+ = NBC Sports Plus
ROOT NW = ROOT Sports Northwest
AT&T RM = AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain
KHQ = KHQ-TV, Spokane
*Digital broadcasts subject to territorial restrictions
Red denotes tape delay broadcast
