ESPN recently announced an eight year agreement with the West Coast Conference for the TV rights to show WCC men's & women's basketball along with several Olympic sports across multiple ESPN platforms.
According to a press release, the new deal runs through 2018-19 academic year. The new deal will bring 48 men's basketball appearances on various ESPN platforms. There's a catch though to the new deal, conference games count as two appearances and non-conference games count as one appearance. So at most, a minimum of 14 men's conference games will be televised.
In addition, the new deal call for increased coverage of the WCC men's basketball tournament as well as at least 5 women's basketball and Olympic sports telecasts across various ESPN platforms.
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