Overview

• Pearl will work alongside analysts Jalen Rose and Jamal Mashburn with Adam Lefkoe as studio host for TNT’s 2025–26 coverage.
• The studio team will anchor Big East and Big 12 regular-season programming and join TNT/CBS coverage of the NCAA men’s tournament.
• This marks TNT’s first season carrying Big East and Big 12 games, including 72 Big East men’s and women’s broadcasts and Big 12 men’s coverage via an ESPN sub-licensing deal.
• Naismith Hall of Famer Chris Webber will contribute on marquee events, including the Players Era Festival during Thanksgiving week.
• Pearl retired from Auburn in September after leading Final Four teams in 2019 and 2025 and previously worked as an ESPN analyst, in a shift reported as part of TNT’s broader rights realignment that includes Inside the NBA moving to ESPN.