Watch Friday's basketball action on TV

The Big Ten Network will be live on the campuses of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan State, Minnesota and Wisconsin for their versions of Midnight Madness. 

"Big Ten Tonight: Basketball Tip-Off Edition" airs 9:30 p.m. ET on Friday. It will be 90 minutes that features live coverage from:

• Illinois' "Illini Madness."
• "Hoosier Hysteria" at Indiana
• Michigan State's "Midnight Madness"
• "Tubby's Tipoff" at Minnesota
• Wisconsin's "Night of the Grateful Red."

Dave Revsine will anchor the show from Big Ten Network studios in Chicago while on-site reporters provide live look-ins from Champaign, Bloomington, East Lansing, Minneapolis and Madison for team introductions, three-point and dunk contests, and the pep bands, and all the hype and hoopla that come with a new basketball season.

Also, we'll have live interviews with selected Big Ten players and coaches Bruce Weber of Illinois, Kelvin Sampson of Indiana, Tom Izzo of Michigan State, Tubby Smith of Minnesota and Bo Ryan of Wisconsin.
 
"Big Ten Hoops Hysteria," the network's full season preview show, premieres October 18 and looks at all 11 teams while breaking down the Big Ten championship race.

This winter the network will air 140 men's basketball games, 64 conference match-ups and three Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament games, the overwhelming majority of them in high definition.

During the conference season, the network will feature games on Tuesdays, a double-header every Wednesday night and a heavy dose of games on the weekends, including double-, triple- and quadruple-headers. All intra-conference games will be distributed nationally, which means the end of the split-regional broadcasts that occurred in past seasons.