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USA SPORTS ANNOUNCES 2025-26 ATLANTIC 10 COLLEGE BASKETBALL SCHEDULE & COMMENTATORS
USA Network to Air More Than 40 Men's and Women's Games this Season, Featuring Regular Season and A-10 Championship Games
Beginning this Weekend, A-10 Basketball on USA Network Airs Regularly on Saturdays and Sundays Featuring Frequent Afternoon Doubleheaders and Tripleheaders
Coverage on USA Network Tips Off with Men's Non-Conference Doubleheader this Saturday, Dec. 6 as Richmond Hosts Old Dominion (12:30 p.m. ET) and Loyola Chicago Hosts Princeton (2:30 p.m. ET)
Broadcasting Pairs of Steve Burkowski & Tim McCormick and Steve Schlanger & John Giannini to Lead USA Sports' Game Coverage; Studio Coverage Hosted by Lisa Kerney Alongside Analyst Dalen Cuff
USA Sports is New Brand and Division Name for VERSANT's Sports Portfolio Across USA Network and Golf Channel
STAMFORD, Conn. - Dec. 1, 2025 - USA Sports will present 40+ Atlantic 10 college basketball games this season with more than 25 men's and women's regular season games and multiple men's and women's Atlantic 10 Championship games airing live on USA Network.
Beginning this weekend, USA Network will regularly present Atlantic 10 regular season games on Saturdays and Sundays, often featuring doubleheaders and tripleheaders throughout the day. The 2025-26 season marks the fifth consecutive year of live Atlantic 10 basketball on USA Network.
On the men's side, Davidson and Richmond will each play a team-high five times on USA Network this season. George Mason (8-0) currently sits atop the A-10, while the conference also boasts four one-loss teams in the early part of the season, including St. Bonaventure (7-1), Davidson (6-1), Richmond (6-1), and Saint Louis (6-1).
The Atlantic 10 men's regular season schedule on USA Network tips off with a non-conference doubleheader this Saturday, Dec. 6 as Richmond hosts Old Dominion at 12:30 p.m. ET and Loyola Chicago hosts Princeton at 2:30 p.m. ET.
Last year's Atlantic 10 men's conference champions VCU, who received multiple votes in the 2025-26 Associated Press preseason Top 25 poll, lead off a tripleheader on the first Saturday of conference play on Jan. 3, as the Rams visit Duquesne at Noon ET, followed by La Salle at George Washington (2 p.m. ET) and Rhode Island at George Mason (4 p.m. ET).
The men's regular season schedule on USA Network concludes with a tripleheader on Saturday, March 7, capped by 2024-25 co-regular season champions George Mason hosting Saint Louis at 4 p.m. ET.
USA Network and CNBC will present live coverage of ten Atlantic 10 Men's Championship games from the first round through the quarterfinals (March 11-13).
Beginning in January, USA Network will present multiple Atlantic 10 women's regular season games, headlined by Rhode Island hosting Duquesne on Sunday, Jan. 18, at Noon ET.
On Saturday, March 6, four Atlantic 10 Women's Championship quarterfinals games will air live on USA Network, the USA Network app, and CNBC.
Richmond (6-2) received multiple votes in the most recent AP women's Top 25 poll.
USA Sports was recently announced as the new brand and division name for VERSANT's sports portfolio across USA Network, Golf Channel, and CNBC. Since August, VERSANT has announced new media rights agreements with the WNBA, the United States Golf Association (USGA), the Pac-12, and League One Volleyball (LOVB).
STUDIO AND GAME COMMENTATORS
Studio coverage on USA Network will be hosted by Lisa Kerney alongside analyst Dalen Cuff. Kerney, a former college basketball player at Lynn University, has previously hosted SportsCenter on ESPN and served as a host and reporter at MLB Network, FanDuel TV, and more. Cuff, a guard at Columbia from 2002-06, has served as a college basketball analyst at ESPN, ACC Network, The Field of 68, and more.
The broadcasting pairs of Steve Burkowski (play-by-play) and Tim McCormick (analyst) and Steve Schlanger (play-by-play) and John Giannini (analyst) will call the majority of USA Sports' A-10 matchups this season.
A longtime play-by-play announcer for Golf Channel, Burkowski previously served as the play-by-play announcer for the University of South Carolina's women's basketball team and has called A-10 and Big Ten college basketball games for NBC Sports, while McCormick, the No. 12 overall pick in the 1984 NBA Draft out of Michigan, played eight seasons in the NBA and has called college basketball games, including the A-10, for NBC Sports and ESPN.
Schlanger has been a play-by-play announcer for more than 30 different sports for various networks, including calling Atlantic 10 basketball for NBC Sports, and Giannini, a head coach in the Atlantic 10 at LaSalle for 14 seasons - including leading the Explorers to the Sweet 16 in 2013 - has served as an analyst on A-10 and college basketball games since 2018.
Additionally, play-by-play voices Jack Benjamin, Mike Corey, Joe Castellano, and Jason Knapp, and game analysts Zendon Hamilton, Edona Thaqi, and Derek Whittenberg will contribute to this season's coverage on USA Network.
2025-26 ATLANTIC 10 MEN'S BASKETBALL REGULAR SEASON SCHEDULE ON USA NETWORK
(Note: All games, platforms, and times are subject to change.)
DATE TIME (ET) MATCHUP
Sat., Dec. 6 12:30 PM Old Dominion at Richmond
Sat., Dec. 6 2:30PM Princeton at Loyola Chicago
Sat., Dec. 13 12:30PM Old Dominion at George Mason
Sat., Dec. 20 12:30PM Liberty at Dayton
Sat., Jan. 3 Noon VCU at Duquesne
Sat., Jan. 3 2:00 PM La Salle at George Washington
Sat., Jan. 3 4:00 PM Rhode Island at George Mason
Sun., Jan. 4 Noon Richmond at Fordham
Sat., Jan. 10 Noon Fordham at St. Bonaventure
Sat., Jan. 10 2:00 PM Rhode Island at Davidson
Sat., Jan. 10 4:00 PM Saint Louis at La Salle
Sun., Jan. 11 Noon Saint Joseph's at Richmond
Sat., Jan. 17 12:30PM Duquesne at Fordham
Sat., Jan. 17 2:30PM St. Bonaventure at La Salle
Sat., Jan. 24 3:00 PM Richmond at George Washington
Sat., Jan. 24 5:00 PM VCU at Davidson
Sat., Jan. 31 2:30 PM Saint Joseph's at La Salle
Sat., Jan. 31 4:30 PM Davidson at Richmond
Sat., Jan. 31 6:30 PM George Mason at St. Bonaventure
Sun., Feb. 1 Noon Rhode Island at Duquesne
Sun., March 1 Noon La Salle at Davidson
Sat., March 7 Noon Davidson at St. Bonaventure
Sat., March 7 2 p.m. George Washington at Loyola Chicago
Sat., March 7 4 p.m. Saint Louis at George Mason
Wed., March 11 11:30 a.m. A-10 Championship First Round
Wed., March 11 2 p.m. A-10 Championship First Round
Thurs., March 12 11:30 a.m. A-10 Championship Second Round
Thurs., March 12 2 p.m. A-10 Championship Second Round
Thurs., March 12 5 p.m. A-10 Championship Second Round
Thurs., March 12 7:30 p.m. A-10 Championship Second Round
Fri., March 13 11:30 a.m. A-10 Championship Quarterfinals
Fri., March 13 2 p.m. A-10 Championship Quarterfinals
Fri., March 13 5 p.m. A-10 Championship Quarterfinals
Fri., March 13 7/7:30 p.m. A-10 Championship Quarterfinals*
*Live on CNBC
2025-26 ATLANTIC 10 WOMEN'S BASKETBALL REGULAR SEASON SCHEDULE ON USA NETWORK
(Note: All games, platforms, and times are subject to change.)
DATE TIME (ET) MATCHUP
Sun., Jan. 11 2:00 PM St. Louis at Loyola Chicago
Sun., Jan. 18 Noon Duquesne at Rhode Island
Sun., Feb. 1 2:00 PM George Washington at Dayton
Sat., Feb. 28 12:30 PM Fordham at VCU
Fri., March 6 11:30 a.m. A-10 Championship Quarterfinals
Fri., March 6 1:30 p.m. A-10 Championship Quarterfinals*
Fri., March 6 5 p.m. A-10 Championship Quarterfinals
Fri., March 6 7 p.m. A-10 Championship Quarterfinals**
*Live on USA Network App
**Live on CNBC
About USA Sports
USA Sports is home to premier sporting events airing on USA Network, Golf Channel, and CNBC across the calendar year, including NASCAR, PGA TOUR, Premier League, WWE, WNBA, Pac-12 football and basketball, USGA, R&A, LPGA Tour, PGA of America, Atlantic 10 Basketball. DP World Tour, Augusta National Golf Channel, League One Volleyball (LOVB), and more. Golf Channel - the first-ever single-sport cable network which was founded in 1995 - delivers comprehensive live golf tournament, studio and shoulder programming and is the television home of the sport and industry in the United States. USA Sports is a division of VERSANT, Comcast Corporation's (NASDAQ: CMCSA) planned spin-off, which will be a leading independent publicly traded media company comprised of most of NBCUniversal's cable television networks, including USA Network, CNBC, MSNBC, Oxygen, E!, SYFY and Golf Channel along with complementary digital assets Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow, GolfPass, and SportsEngine.
About VERSANT
VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT), Comcast Corporation's planned spin-off, will be a leading independent publicly traded media company comprised of most of NBCUniversal's cable television networks, including USA Network, CNBC, MS NOW, Oxygen, E!, SYFY and Golf Channel, along with digital assets Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow, GolfPass and SportsEngine. The well-capitalized company will have significant scale as a pure-play set of assets anchored by leading news, sports and entertainment content. The spin-off is expected to be completed in early 2026, subject to the satisfaction of customary conditions.
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