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[QUOTE="UConnCat, post: 2959968, member: 15"]
What you've described is not accurate.  Nowhere in these conference TV contracts does ESPN or Fox relinquish Tier 1 broadcast rights to a conference network.  In fact, it's the exact opposite: the conference networks are left with whatever events ESPN and or Fox choose not to broadcast on one of their platforms.

For the PAC 12, ESPN has Tier 1 rights to women's basketball games.  Those games not selected for broadcast on the ESPN platform will then be picked up by the PAC-12 network.  In other words, ESPN could have selected the Stanford/Baylor game but chose instead to stick to its normal schedule of broadcasting men's college basketball on Saturday afternoons.  If the game were played on Sunday I bet ESPN would have broadcast the game.

The same is true with the Big 10's deal.  ESPN owns the Tier 1 rights to women's basketball (and olympic sports).  Those events not chosen to appear on the ESPN platform will then be available for the BTN network.

SNY owns Tier 3 rights for UConn games.  Tier 1 rights belong to ESPN.   After ESPN is done selecting the games it wants to broadcast, CBS Sportsnet (Tier 2 rights) selects the games it wants to broadcast.  SNY (ESPN3) gets what is left over.
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