The NCAA and ESPN announced Thursday that 40 NCAA championships, including women's basketball, volleyball, baseball and softball, will be on ESPN networks for the next eight years.
The agreement includes rights to 21 women's championships and 19 men's. Division I women's basketball, women's volleyball, women's gymnastics and the Football Championship Subdivision title game will all be on network television (ABC). More than 800 hours of NCAA championships will appear on ESPN linear networks throughout the year, with more than 2,300 combined on linear and digital platforms.
It extends a relationship between the NCAA and ESPN that began in 1979.