New Hoops Media Rights Agreement Could Add Another Streamer To UCF's Schedule
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UCF men's basketball fans may need to add another streaming service to catch every Knights game this season.
NBC Sports and the Big 12 announced a multi-year agreement on Tuesday that will see 20 regular-season Big 12 men's basketball games streamed on Peacock beginning this season. The news was first reported by Sports Business Journal's Ben Portnoy earlier Tuesday morning.
The Big 12 is slated to announce a new package of 20 regular season MBB games that will be streamed on Peacock beginning in 2025, sources tell @SBJ.
— Ben Portnoy (@bportnoy15) August 5, 2025
The games are part of a sublicense agreement between Fox Sports and NBC.https://t.co/7IV9PYYnUQ
The games are part of a sublicense agreement between Fox Sports and NBC, which the Big 12 helped facilitate, according to Portnoy.
With the announcement of this deal, the Big 12 now has all five of the major college sports networks— Fox, ESPN, NBC, CBS and TNT —broadcasting or streaming their men's basketball slate starting this season.
“The Big 12 is thrilled to partner with NBC Sports and Peacock as we continue to expand access and coverage of Big 12 men’s basketball,” Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark said in a press release. “Alongside our portfolio of existing media partners, NBC Sports and Peacock will provide our league with unprecedented promotion and storytelling.”
While the Big 12's primary media rights agreements are with Fox and ESPN, a series of sublicense deals over the last year has resulted in TNT, CBS and now NBC each getting some Big 12 basketball games as well.
Network/Streaming Service Sublicensee | # of Games Broadcasted/Streamed |
|---|---|
CBS/Paramount+ | at least 26 |
TNT/TBS/HBO Max | 15 |
Peacock | 20 |
The first domino dropped in September last year, when the Big 12 and ESPN agreed to a sublicense with CBS Sports through the 2026-27 season, which will see 20 games broadcast on CBS Sports Network on top of the six minimum already broadcast games on CBS proper, which are also streamed live on Paramount+.
A couple of months later, as part of asettlementbetween TNT's parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery, ESPN and the NBA over the basketball league's new media rights deal, ESPN agreed to sublicense 15 Big 12 men's basketball games per season, for six seasons, to Warner Bros. Discovery. Those games will air on either TNT or TBS and be streamed live on WBD's streaming service, HBO Max.
Tuesday's deal marks the first time that Fox was the network to sublicense a portion of its Big 12 hoops slate.
While the Big 12, and subsequently UCF's, 2025-26 men's basketball schedule has yet to be released, this new deal now opens the possibility of UCF fans needing to subscribe to another streaming service to catch every single Knights game.
The only game on the Knights' schedule as of this writing is their exhibition game against Duke on Oct. 21.
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Bryson Turner is a sports journalist who covers UCF Athletics. Turner has contributed to the Black and Gold Banneret, the home for UCF Athletics on SB Nation. He has called the Orlando area home since the age of 8 and received his bachelor's and master's degrees from UCF.
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