Championship Week

Championship Week (shortened to Champ Week from 2016 onward) is ESPN's annual college basketball showcase of conference tournament games in the United States, which decide NCAA bids in early-to-mid-March. It typically lasts a little under two weeks, before post-season play begins. The low-major and mid-major conferences typically begin Championship Week and it culminates with Selection Sunday, during which the brackets are unveiled. Over the years, more games have been added with the expansion of ESPN's numerous multicast channels.

Coverage of the NCAA conference tournaments is no longer mostly limited to ESPN, since the proliferation of competing sports networks such as CBS Sports Network and Fox Sports 1, as well as CBS's longstanding over-the-air coverage of the last weekend of conference championships, all of which air similar marathons opposite Championship Week. This has allowed even further exposure of the tournaments on national television. For example, the Pac-12 tournament aired on the Pac-12 Network and alternately on Fox Sports 1 and ESPN, the Big East on Fox and Fox Sports 1, and the Mountain West on CBS and CBS Sports Network. Because of the resulting genericizing, ESPN abbreviated its branding to Champ Week beginning in 2016.

On radio, Westwood One's coverage of the conference tournaments is also billed as Championship Week.

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