This weekend? This is a good weekend, friends. Multiple top-tier matchups, intriguing storylines, some pre-Christmas league action and best of all: cooler heads prevailed and the only way to watch Mount Saint Mary’s and Saint Francis play Friday night is on something called NEC Front Row.
Each week during the year, we’ll talk about three games on the weekend slate—one you have to see, one you have to keep an eye on and one you should avoid at all costs. It’s like Secret Santa, only you don’t have to actually physically throw us in the trash when you get home.
As always, the weekend begins at 7 p.m. ET on Friday. Back-to-back weeks without a pre-7 tip? I don’t even know you anymore, early-season college basketball.
Must Watch (Times ET)
No. 1 Arizona vs. No. 3 Purdue (4:30 p.m., Saturday, Peacock)
Sometimes the matchup of the weekend is obvious, and sometimes it’s not, and sometimes it’s obvious but only available on an app currently rolling about sixth in the streaming wars.
On that last part, up front: I like Peacock. I watch a lot of Premier League on there. I’ve binged Brooklyn Nine-Nine (RIP to the legendary Andre Braugher) and enjoy occasionally getting hammered and watching very old (I’m talking mid-to-late 90s old) WWE pay-per-views. All of these things are extremely my shit, and I enjoy that they’re in one place I conveniently access.