Virginia Union, Fayetteville State and defending CIAA champion Bowie State each have two games featured out of the five regular season match-ups being aired. The games will be broadcast through the conference’s deal with Aspire TV for the 2017-2018 basketball season.
Set to kick off January 20, coverage starts with Livingstone visiting FSU. Bowie will then travel to Virginia to take on the Trojans a week following. VUU has back-to-back featured road games in February, traveling to Chowan on Feb. 3, then visiting Bowie on February 10. Regular season coverage concludes with Winston-Salem State traveling to Fayetteville on Feb. 17.
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Tournament Coverage
March 1 starts off the broadcasting of the Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournament at Spectrum Arena in Charlotte, North Carolina. Aspire will start coverage with games three and four of the men’s quarterfinals. The men’s and women’s semifinals games are aired on March 2, and the Men’s and Women’s Championship Game on March 3.
The Women’s Championship game is set to tip-off at 1 p.m, and the men’s at 7. In between the championship games you can also watch the Celebrity Charity Basketball Game, a new feature to the tournament, which is slated for 4pm.
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2017-18 Basketball Broadcast Schedule |
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| Date | Away | Home | Tipoff | Network |
| January 20, 2018 | Livingstone | Fayetteville State | M — 4:00 PM | Aspire TV |
| January 27, 2018 | Bowie State | Virginia State | M – 4:00 PM | Aspire TV |
| February 3, 2018 | Virginia Union | Chowan | M — 4:00 PM | Aspire TV |
| February 10, 2018 | Virginia Union | Bowie State | M — 4:00 PM | Aspire TV |
| February 17, 2018 | Winston-Salem State | Fayetteville State | M — 4:00 PM | Aspire TV |
| March 1, 2018 | Men’s Quarterfinal Game #3 | M — 7:00 PM | Aspire TV | |
| March 1, 2018 | Men’s Quarterfinal Game #4 | M — 9:00 PM | Aspire TV | |
| March 2, 2018 | Women’s Semifinal Game #1 | W – 1:00 PM | Aspire TV | |
| March 2, 2018 | Women’s Semifinal Game #2 | W – 3:00 PM | Aspire TV | |
| March 2, 2018 | Men’s Semifinal Game #1 | M — 7:00 PM | Aspire TV | |
| March 2, 2018 | Men’s Semifinal Game #2 | M — 9:00 PM | Aspire TV | |
| March 3, 2018 | Women’s Championship, Presented by Food Lion | W — 1:00 PM | Aspire TV | |
| March 3, 2018 | Celebrity Charity Basketball Game (CCBG) | 4:00 PM | Aspire TV | |
| March 3, 2018 | Men’s Championship | M – 7:00 PM | Aspire TV | |
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VUU gets 2 TV game!!! They must have a grad at AspireTV