Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

SEC TV schedule features 10 Arkansas games

- — Matt Jones

The University of Arkansas will have 10 baseball games televised during the 2023 regular season, according to the SEC’s TV schedule announced Tuesday.

All of the Razorbacks’ series at LSU on March 24-26 will be televised on ESPN2 or SEC Network, and Arkansas will have its series opener and series finale against Texas

A& M televised by SEC Network from April 27-29 at Baum-Walker

Stadium.

Other Arkansas games scheduled to be televised are the series finale at home against

Alabama on April 2; the series finale at Ole Miss on April 8; the series opener against Tennessee at home on April 14; the series opener at Georgia on April 20; and the second game of the Mississipp­i State series on May 6.

Most of the Razorbacks’ non-televised games are expected to be streamed in some capacity, but two games will not be televised or streamed this season.

The March 10 series opener against Louisiana Tech in Fayettevil­le will not be streamed due to scheduling conflicts with the Razorbacks’ softball and gymnastics teams, which also compete on campus the same day.

A news release from Arkansas’ athletics department cites “SEC Network obligation­s as well as an SEC softball game and the new mandated softball replay requiremen­ts” as reasons for the decision for no baseball streaming that day, and adds there are no additional ways to show the game because the broadcast rights for home games are owned by SEC Network.

The Razorbacks’ annual game in North Little Rock — this year against Lipscomb on May 2 — will not be shown, consistent with recent broadcast decisions made for home games played away from campus.

With the exception of the first Louisiana Tech game, all of Arkansas’ on-campus games are expected to be available via SEC Network-Plus on the ESPN app. The Razorbacks’ away conference games will be available through the same streaming platform.

Arkansas is scheduled to play three games at the College Baseball Showdown — once against Texas, TCU and Oklahoma State from Feb. 17-19 — on FloSports, a subscripti­on streaming service that offers monthly rates.

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