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Big East Reunites With ESPN+ for Six-Year Streaming Rights Deal

It guarantees dedicated streaming slots for women’s basketball and Olympic sports as part of a wider push into digital distribution.

Senior Lexi Hastings, a .365 hitter across 185 career games, and her UConn softball teammates have unfinished business at the Big East tournament. (UConn athletics)
Mar 5, 2025; Storrs, Connecticut, USA; UConn Huskies forward Alex Karaban (11) reacts after his three point basket against the Marquette Golden Eagles in the second half at Harry A. Gampel Pavilion. Mandatory Credit: David Butler II-Imagn Images

Overview

  • ESPN+ will stream more than 300 Big East events annually beginning in the 2025–26 season.
  • The agreement requires at least 75 women’s basketball games, 25 nonconference men’s basketball matchups and 200 Olympic sports events each year on ESPN+.
  • The deal marks ESPN’s return to Big East coverage after rights lapsed in 2013.
  • Fox Sports, NBC Sports and TNT Sports remain the conference’s primary linear broadcasters through the 2030–31 season.
  • Olympic sports coverage will shift predominantly from FloSports to ESPN+ under the new arrangement.