If you’re a college hoops junkie like us (and you must be if you’re reading this blog), you’ve probably considered the above question. We’ve purchased the $99 ESPN Full Court package for the last four years running and we plan on doing so again this year. Over the years, we’ve spent countless hours on the phone with Comcast (so you want the NBA League Pass, right?) and searching the espn.com website (as of this morning, we still couldn’t find a list on there) to try to find a complete list of all the games that the Full Court Package was going to have, most of the time to no avail.

Now that we have a little more experience with finding this list, we thought it’d make sense to provide it to you guys so you can make an educated decision as to whether you want to throw some bones toward the rapacious bastards your cable company. Whether you should purchase the 427-game FCP depends completely on the following factors:

1) if you’re unemployed how much free time you have

2) if the MSM hates your team how often your favorite team(s) or conference(s) are shown on the package

3) if you live in a hole whether you live outside the local area from said team/conference

Here are a few tidbits about this year’s FCP:

• Missouri has the most games on the FCP with 22 – here are some of the other high-volume notables:
  • 16 – Arkansas, Texas Tech
  • 15 – Oklahoma, Seton Hall
  • 14 – UConn, Iowa St., Kansas, Louisville, LSU
  • 13 – Alabama, Marquette, St. John’s, Texas
  • 12 – New Mexico St., South Carolina
  • 11 – Kentucky, Miami (FL), Nevada, Oklahoma St., Ole Miss, Providence, Rutgers, South Florida, West Virginia
  • 10- Florida, Mississippi St., Pittsburgh, Tennessee

• There will be 115 nonconference games on the FCP this year, most of them obviously occurring prior to Jan. 1. Some of the best of the list are:
  • Texas Tech @ Sam Houston St. (11.14.07)
  • Clemson @ Mississippi St (11.15.07)
  • BYU @ Louisville (11.23.07)
  • Nevada @ UNLV (11.24.07)
  • Boston U. @ Pittsburgh (11.27.07)
  • Missouri @ Arkansas (11.28.07)
  • Oral Roberts @ Texas (12.18.07)
  • Washington @ LSU (12.29.07)
  • Xavier @ Auburn (01.06.08)
  • Georgia Tech @ Georgia (01.09.08)

• The remaining games are conference games, and the BCS leagues are well-represented. Here’s the rundown there (notice anyone missing, Big Ten fans??):
  • Big East – 69
  • SEC – 63
  • Big 12 – 56
  • ACC – 36
  • WAC – 34
  • MAAC – 12
  • Big Sky – 10
  • Colonial – 10
  • America East – 9
  • Pac-10 – 8
  • Missouri Valley – 2
  • Northeast – 2
  • Southland – 1

• Hey, we’re on board with watching more WAC and Colonial games than another depressing slugfest between Minnesota and Wisconsin. Still, we would have liked to have seen a little more of The Valley and Colonial, but it’s better than last year, and we’re hopeful it will continue to improve.

• Best conference matchups:
  • Pittsburgh @ Villanova (01.06.08)
  • Vermont @ Albany (01.06.08)
  • Texas @ Missouri (01.12.08)
  • Notre Dame @ Georgetown (01.19.08)
  • George Mason @ UNC-Wilmington (01.26.08)
  • Vanderbilt @ Florida (01.27.08)
  • Tennessee @ Mississippi St. (02.02.08)
  • Nevada @ Utah St. (02.02.08)
  • USC @ Washington St. (02.09.08)
  • Boston U. @ Vermont (02.14.08)
  • Stanford @ Arizona (02.16.08)
  • Oklahoma @ Texas (02.23.08)
  • Tennessee @ Florida (03.05.08)

Here’s the complete list.