Your New Year’s Day 2017 College Basketball Open Thread & Viewing Guide!

It’s not a loaded day of hoops by any stretch of the imagination, but for a day that could potentially be dominated by Week 17 of the NFL, there’s a lot of hoops on the TV to occupy your brain as you recover from last night’s festivities.

They’re not super high quality games, as there’s only three ranked teams in action. One of them is in the Big East, though, and there’s three total Big East games on the docket. Minnesota visiting Purdue is a pretty important game for the Gophers after letting Michigan State steal one from them last week.

There’s also four Missouri Valley games on ESPN3 if you need something to wet your whistle, and if you’re one of those lucky jamokes that gets Pac12 Networks, #18 Arizona visits Stanford tonight.

All times Central.

11am: Nebraska at Maryland, Big Ten Network
11:30am: Syracuse at Boston College, ESPNU
1pm: St. John’s at DePaul, FS1

1:15pm: Michigan at Iowa, Big Ten Network
1:30pm: Penn State at Rutgers, ESPNU
2pm: Providence at #13 Butler, CBS Sports Network

3:30pm: Minnesota at #15 Purdue, Big Ten Network
3:30pm: Marquette at Seton Hall, FS1
4pm: New Mexico at San Diego State, CBS Sports Network

5:30pm: Colorado at Utah, ESPNU
6pm: Ohio State at Illinois, Big Ten Network
6pm: Tulane at #23 Cincinnati, CBS Sports Network

7:30pm: Washington State at Washington