FOX Sports lines up hoops voices

With college basketball underway, FOX Sports cemented its lineup of game and studio broadcasters for the upcoming season, led by play-play announcer Gus Johnson and analysts Bill Raftery and Jim Jackson, with coverage set to include the BIG EAST, Big Ten and Pac-12 conferences on the FOX broadcast network, FS1, FS2 and FOX Sports Regional Networks during the 2018-19 campaign. Also returning to call game action are multi-sport broadcast veteran Tim Brando as well as Joe Davis; Kevin Burkhardt; Justin Kutcher; Brian Anderson; Brian Custer; Kevin Kugler; and more. New to this year’s play-by-play rotation are veteran broadcaster Dave O’Brien; BTN host Dave Revsine; among others. Analysts is once again led by Bill Raftery and Jim Jackson, as well as Donny Marshall Steve Lavin; and Len Elmore; as well as others. In the studio, Rob Stone returns as FOX Sports’ lead college basketball host, joined by Jackson, Jacobsen, Marshall and Lavin throughout the season.

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