CBS Sports picks up rights to ACC basketball championship

The CBS Sports division of US network CBS has secured a sublicense agreement with sports broadcaster ESPN to televise coverage of the American Athletic Conference’s 2018 college basketball championship.

CBS Sports will broadcast live coverage of the semi-finals on March 10 and the championship game the following day.

ESPN will continue to show the first two days of the tournament, which runs from March 8-11 and expands from seven to eight games with the addition of Wichita State for the 2017-18 season.

The ACC said that ESPN will resume coverage of the entire championship in 2019.