2024 NCAA Basketball Conference Tournament TV Schedule

Holy shit that came up fast. It felt like only a week ago we were a ways away from conference tournament time. Then BOOM! Here we are. Even with a leap year, March crept up on me.

This is my eighth time doing this. This will be some of the last games of any sport shown on the Pac-12 Network so indulge yourself. Or don’t. Not like it’s a great conference network or anything. Alright, let us begin.

March 8thOVC Semi-Final #18:00
March 8thOVC Semi-Final #210:30
March 9thMVC Semi-Final #13:30
March 9thMVC Semi-Final #26:00
March 9thOVC Championship8:00
March 9thWCC Quarter-Final #1 10:00
March 10thWCC Quarter-Final #212:30 AM
March 10thBig South ChampionshipNoon
March 10thMVC Championship2:00
March 10thA-Sun Championship2:00
March 10thPatriot League Semi-Final #12:00
March 10thSoCon Semi-Final #14:00
March 10thPatriot League Semi-Final #24:00
March 10thSoCon Semi-Final #26:30
March 11thCAA Semi-Final #16:00
March 11thHorizon Semi-Final #17:00
March 11thSoCon Championship7:00
March 11thSun Belt Championship7:00
March 11thCAA Semi-Final #28:30
March 11thWCC Semi-Final #19:00
March 11thHorizon Semi-Final #29:30
March 11thWCC Semi-Final #211:30
March 12thACC First Round #12:00
March 12thACC First Round #24:30
March 12thAmerica East Semi-Final #15:00
March 12thSouthland Semi-Final #16:30
March 12thACC First Round #37:00
March 12thNEC Championship7:00
March 12thCAA Championship7:00
March 12thHorizon Championship7:00
March 12thBig Sky Semi-Final #18:30
March 12thWCC Championship9:00
March 12thSummit Championship9:30
March 12thBig Sky Semi-Final #211:00
March 13thACC Second Round #1Noon
March 13thBig XII Second Round #112:30
March 13thACC Second Round #22:30
March 13thPac-12 First Round #13:00
March 13thSouthland Championship5:00
March 13thPac-12 First Round #25:30
March 13thACC Second Round #37:00
March 13thSEC First Round #17:00
March 13thPatriot Championship7:00
March 13thPac-12 First Round #39:00
March 13thSEC First Round #29:30
March 13thACC Second Round #49:30
March 13thBig XII Second Round #49:30
March 13thBig Sky Championship11:30
March 13thPac-12 First Round #411:30
March 14thACC Quarter-Final #1Noon
March 14thBig Ten Second Round #1Noon
March 14thBig XII Quarter-Final #112:30
March 14thAmerican Second Round #112:30
March 14thSEC Second Round #11:00
March 14thACC Quarter-Final #22:30
March 14thBig Ten Second Round #22:30
March 14thBig XII Quarter-Final #23:00
March 14thAmerican Second Round #23:00
March 14thMWC Quarter-Final #13:00
March 14thPac-12 Quarter-Final #13:00
March 14thSEC Second Round #23:30
March 14thMWC Quarter-Final #25:30
March 14thPac-12 Quarter-Final #25:30
March 14thBig Ten Second Round #36:30
March 14thACC Quarter-Final #37:00
March 14thBig XII Quarter-Final #37:00
March 14thAmerican Second Round #37:00
March 14thSEC Second Round #37:00
March 14thBig Ten Second Round #49:00
March 14thMWC Quarter-Final #39:00
March 14thPac-12 Quarter-Final #39:00
March 14thACC Quarter-Final #49:30
March 14thBig XII Quarter-Final #49:30
March 14thAmerican Second Round #49:30
March 14thSEC Second Round #49:30
March 14thMWC Quarter-Final #411:30
March 15thBig Ten Quarter-Final #1Noon
March 15thC-USA Semi-Final #112:30
March 15thAmerican Quarter-Final #11:00
March 15thSEC Quarter-Final #11:00
March 15thBig Ten Quarter-Final #22:30
March 15thAmerican Quarter-Final #23:00
March 15thC-USA Semi-Final #23:00
March 15thSEC Quarter-Final #23:30
March 15thMAC Semi-Final #15:00
March 15thBig East Semi-Final #15:30
March 15thMAAC Semi-Final #16:00
March 15thBig Ten Quarter-Final #36:30
March 15thACC Semi-Final #17:00
March 15thBig XII Semi-Final #17:00
March 15thAmerican Quarter-Final #37:00
March 15thSEC Quarter-Final #37:00
March 15thMAC Semi-Final #27:30
March 15thPac-12 Semi-Final #18:00
March 15thMAAC Semi-Final #28:30
March 15thAmerican Quarter-Final #49:00
March 15thBig Ten Quarter-Final #49:00
March 15thACC Semi-Final #29:30
March 15thBig XII Semi-Final #29:30
March 15thSEC Quarter-Final #49:30
March 15thMWC Semi-Final #19:30
March 15thWAC Semi-Final #211:30
March 15thBig West Semi-Final #211:30
March 16thMWC Semi-Final #2Midnight
March 16thAmerica East Championship11:00 AM
March 16thIvy League Semi-Final #111:00 AM
March 16thA-10 Semi-Final #11:00
March 16thBig Ten Semi-Final #11:00
March 16thSEC Semi-Final #11:00
March 16thMEAC Championship1:00
March 16thAmerican Semi-Final #13:00
March 16thSEC Semi-Final #23:00
March 16thA-10 Semi-Final #23:30
March 16thBig Ten Semi-Final #23:30
March 16thAmerican Semi-Final #25:00
March 16thSWAC Championship5:30
March 16thMWC Championship6:00
March 16thBig XII Championship6:00
March 16thBig East Championship6:30
March 16thMAAC Championship7:30
March 16thMAC Championship7:30
March 16thACC Championship8:30
March 16thC-USA Championship8:30
March 16thPac-12 Championship9:00
March 16thBig West Championship9:30
March 16thWAC Championship11:30
March 17thIvy League ChampionshipNoon
March 17thA-10 Championship1:00
March 17thSEC Championship1:00
March 17thAmerican Championship3:15
March 17thBig Ten Championship3:30
March 17thSelection Sunday6:00

Some Greg Gumbel-ish notes

  • Hey what happened to the Selection Sunday show being on TBS every other year? They tried it once, realized it was one of the dumbest ideas in recent college basketball broadcasting history and turfed it. Greg Gumbel (and his Selection Sunday pals) belong on CBS at 6:00 after the Big Ten Championship. Period.
  • There are still so many conference tournaments in the New York City and Las Vegas areas. I find it hilarious that some of these conferences, despite not even having NYC or Vegas in their conference footprint, continue to put the tournaments there and then wonder why they aren’t selling out games. Mindblowing.
  • So it looks like if you don’t have TSN+ you aren’t watching much conference tournament action. Damn near every game that TSN is showing is going to their new streaming platform. Is it surprising? Not really. Now, if TSN+ starts getting a shit-ton of everything, including more college basketball and football, junior hockey, maybe some Canadian university sports as well, then I can say it may be worth the cost. It’s the path we are heading towards so if you are a big-time cablehead and don’t want to move off of it then get ready to be frustrated.
  • As I mentioned above, this is the last few months of the Pac-12 Network, which we have more access to than most Americans. How stupid is that conference. Or was that conference…*pause to shed a tear*…Anyway, the final Pac-12 Network basketball game ever will air on March 15th so if you want to, um, witness some history, watch that game. Then all that will be left, in terms of team sports, is baseball and softball. Then no more Pac-12 come the summer. What a quiet, sad end.

I am under the assumption that the First Four will also go to TSN+. I would be shocked if it didn’t. As for the first round games, with TSN’s wraparound coverage on a few different channels, you should be able to see portions of every single game so no problems there. I will keep things updated here if any conference tournament games magically get pushed from TSN+ to one of the TSN stations (although I don’t see that happening).

The Kreepy Kombine is over so I will be putting up another mock draft. Maybe I will add another round in there. Who knows!

I am slowly putting together the schedule for this upcoming season and it is quite difficult since so much has changed that there are some things I can’t compare to previous years. Hell, the MAC hasn’t even put out their schedule yet so that makes it damn near impossible to complete this puzzle (the MAC finally announced their schedule yesterday). I mean I would I love to put out schedule-based posts in May? Sure. I may even do that and not worry about broadcast information at that point. Everything is up in the air. Have a great week everyone!

More like Mari-No Cristobal, am I right? And the Week 7 College Football TV Schedule

If you missed it this past Saturday, one of the most egregiously bad coaching decisions in college football history occurred.

Miami had Georgia Tech beat. All they had to do was kneel down with 33 seconds left in the game and they would have escaped with a win over the Yellow Jackets. Tech had no timeouts. This is about the easiest call to make. A horrible high school football coach could figure it out. Not Mario though.

The Canes instead ran the ball and fumbled. The fumble was close. Honestly, if it had been called not a fumble and the runner down initially, I think it would have stayed that way. Instead, Georgia Tech got the ball back and went down the field and scored a touchdown with only a couple of seconds left (that play alone was ridiculous as Haynes King seemed to scramble forever and then found a relatively wide open Christian Leary for the TD pass).

Immediately, some harkened back to Cristobal doing almost the exact same thing when he was the head coach at Oregon. Kind of the same situation where a kneel down would almost certainly have got them the win over Stanford. Instead, the Ducks ran a play, fumbled, Stanford recovered and would go on to win in overtime.

Whether Cristobal survives this is debatable. Even with Miami still at 4-1, some Canes backers will want him gone unless they can at least be ranked at the end of the season. Either way, that set of events will go down in college football infamy.

OK enough of Fumblegate or Kneelgate or Cristogate or whatever some idiot will come up with for this. It’s schedule time!

Tuesday

USCanada
Louisiana Tech at Middle Tennessee7:00
Coastal Carolina at Appalachian State7:30
Liberty at Jacksonville State7:30

Here we go. Conference USA weekday action. All October. No Saturday games. It’s like somewhat southern fried MACtion except not as good. Also throw in a Fun Belt game and you got a decent night of football.

Wednesday

USCanada
UTEP at FIU7:30
Sam Houston at New Mexico State9:00

The latter half of the first early week Conference USA set of games. Nothing super important here although we will see if Sam Houston can get their first FBS victory in program history.

Thursday

USCanada
Wagner at St. Francis7:00
SMU at East Carolina7:30
Fort Valley State at Benedict7:30

This is easily the weirdest schedule segment I have ever put on my blog. The first ever NEC game appears as Wagner travels to St. Francis. Also, a rare Division II matchup between Fort Valley State and Benedict. Why is this D-II game on this Thursday night? Hell, if I know but it’s football so I will watch.

Friday

USCanada
Tulane at Memphis7:00
Fresno State at Utah State8:00
Stanford at Colorado10:00

TSN going with the late game and not the early game is certainly a choice. Two things though: CFL football is on in the early window and TSN probably wants to get in on the Colorado ratings early-season juggernaut.

Saturday Early

USCanada
Syracuse at #4 Florida StateNoon
Michigan State at RutgersNoon
#1 Georgia at VanderbiltNoon
Kent State at Eastern MichiganNoon
Arkansas at #11 AlabamaNoon
Georgia Southern at James MadisonNoon
Temple at North TexasNoon
Indiana at #2 MichiganNoon

This is not as good as your normal Nooner schedule. It’s surprising since most networks are trying to avoid going up against USC-Notre Dame in the primetime window and Oregon-Washington in the afternoon window. And yet still, the best game in this timeslot is arguably Syracuse-FSU (although I think Georgia Southern-JMU will be the better game).

UPDATE: Syracuse-FSU has been added to TSN+.

Saturday Afternoon

USCanada
California at #16 Utah3:00
#8 Oregon at #7 Washington3:30
Wake Forest at Virginia Tech3:30
UMass at #6 Penn State3:30
Texas A&M at #19 Tennessee3:30
Troy at Army3:30
BYU at TCU3:30
FAU at USF3:30
Illinois at Maryland3:30
Florida at South Carolina3:30
Ohio at Northern Illinois4:00
Iowa at Wisconsin4:00

OK now this is a timeslot. A ton of choice. The undisputed game of the week lands here along with a bunch of other tasty college football platters for our consumption. UW-UO is that big game of the week (year?) and will have a huge impact on the Pac-12 going forward (and even the national championship picture). TAMU-UT could be low-key good and Iowa-Wisconsin might just be for the Big Ten West title. Let’s see if Iowa can put up some offense for once.

Saturday Primetime

USCanada
#14 Louisville at Pittsburgh6:30
Wyoming at Air Force7:00
Auburn at #22 LSU7:00
Marshall at Georgia State7:00
Arizona at #19 Washington State7:00
#25 Miami at #12 North Carolina7:30
#10 USC at #21 Notre Dame7:30
Missouri at #24 Kentucky7:30
NC State at #17 Duke8:00
UAB at UTSA8:00
#18 UCLA at #15 Oregon State8:00

I already mentioned the big USC-Notre Dame game that appears here alongside UCLA-Oregon State which is another Pac-12 cannibalization game that I believe will keep the Pac-12 out of the College Football Playoff once again. You will notice that UF-SC is not on TSN+ even though it probably should be. I wonder if it’s an error in the current schedule as otherwise it would make absolutely no sense but would be right up TSN’s alley when it comes to college football broadcasting gaffes of the past.

UPDATE #2: Normally I would chastise myself for not waiting but didn’t have time to wait (thanks a bunch, Conference USA). Anyway, Mizzou-UK has been added to TSN+ as I thought would happen.

Saturday Late Night

USCanada
Montana at Idaho10:30
San Diego State at Hawaii11:00

Ho boy. Is it an interesting schedule? Sure. But there isn’t much meat on the bone here. It does give Canadians the rare opportunity to participate in the Hawaii Test though.

Hey, Watch This!

Oregon at Washington (3:30, ABC/TSN+) – I have mentioned the Pac-12 and how they tend to cannibalize themselves often. It’s happened a few times in the past few years already. And it’s already rearing its ugly head again. Wazzu beat Oregon State and then promptly lost to UCLA. So yeah, no guarantees for the winner here except the fact they should be in the Top 5 with a win and will remain among the (quickly shrinking) land of the undefeated.

USC at Notre Dame (7:30, NBC) – This might have been considered for Game of the Week if the Irish had been able to beat Louisville last Saturday. A Trojan win here keeps them in at least of a share of the driver’s seat to go to Las Vegas for the Pac-12 Championship and conference supremacy. An Irish win and the Trojans cost themselves greatly and Caleb Williams’ chance at history could take a huge hit.

UCLA at Oregon State (8:00, FOX) – Man, this is truly the Pac-12’s week to shine. Five of the six teams in the games of the week reside in a conference that will be dead very soon. How sad. Anyway, the Beavers could put UCLA out of the mix at this point if they get the victory here. The Bruins would be the shock of the college football world if they could somehow make it to the Pac-12 Championship. It would also validate (finally) Chip Kelly’s hiring.

Missouri at Kentucky (7:30, specialty pack) – I mentioned above that this game was not on TSN+ and only on the specialty pack at this point. That should change but until I see it I won’t post it. Anyway, this section drops off a bit of a cliff after the top three games. Both of these teams had their chances last week to make serious noise in the SEC. The Wildcats got blasted by Georgia and the Tigers couldn’t outlast one of the other Tigers in the conference (LSU). The winner here still has an outside shot at the New Year’s Six with the loser being relegated to the third tier of the SEC East behind the winner and, of course, UGA.

Sickos Game of the Week

Wake Forest at Virginia Tech (3:30, TSN+/specialty pack) – Every conference network has their share of, let’s say, not-so-good games and this is certainly one of them. The Demon Deacons aren’t nearly as good as they have been in recent years and the Hokies are bordering on awful. Luckily for these two teams, Virginia and Boston College exist in the ACC. Honestly, there really aren’t too many seriously bad games that we can watch here so this will look better than most of the games that appear in this spot this season.

Hubba Bubba Blowout of the Week

UMass at Penn State (3:30, Big Ten Network) – Good god. I wonder if the Nittany Lions can put an 80-burger on the board in this one. This will be bowling shoe ugly for sure.

Wanna Bet?

Look, I had Texas-Oklahoma being close. And it was. A great Red River Shootout as it almost always is. Some of my other picks….well…I’m looking at that Miami over Georgia Tech pick and shaking my head. Not because it was a bad pick: it’s because of what you saw at the top of our show. So let’s move on to this week and not dwell too much on the past.

New Mexico State 24 Sam Houston 21

Florida State 49 Syracuse 14

Michigan 54 Indiana 27

James Madison 47 Georgia Southern 10

Texas A&M 33 Tennessee 24 (mild upset)

FAU 45 USF 25

Washington 34 Oregon 31

TCU 35 BYU 21

Wisconsin 30 Iowa 10

Pittsburgh 31 Louisville 22 (fairly big upset!)

Kentucky 27 Missouri 21

Notre Dame 38 USC 35 (OT)

Oregon State 31 UCLA 19

Alright we shall see how busy I get. I am sure to wtch a fair amount of college football on Saturday but it might not be my usual all-day affair. I hate to say I hope for somewhat shitty weather on Fall Saturdays sometimes but I do. It gives me all the excuses I need to stay inside and be a slob and watch football.

Also, small apology for the blog post coming out after the games commenced this week. Starting the week on a Tuesday certainly creates a time crunch even with a holiday Monday. Anyway, enjoy the games everyone!

Guess who’s back…

Back again. Bossman’s back. Tell a friend (who likes football).

That’s right I have finally decided to return to the ol’ blogosphere (do they still call it that). I’ve been off for about four months and it feels like it has been four years. Are things better for me? Meh. I guess. Now I feel I need a distraction again to keep me sane so it’s back to this thing. Not like much has happened in the football world since I was gone AW SHIT TOM BRADY DIDN’T RETIRE. Sometimes the offseason is much more entertaining than the actual season. But I digress.

I figured I would return by doing a little bit of research. I know what you’re thinking: when has this jagoff ever really delved into researching stuff? Well I have…every so often. OK not enough. Maybe this is part of my metamorphosis into a newer, better Bossman. Or, I just have a bit of time on my hands. Oh yeah, the research! I am going to research….me! More specifically my blog.

You see, over the years I have made demands or requests or said things I would like to see change about college football or the NFL. I don’t know how often I have followed up on those but I am going to venture a guess and say almost never. So I am rectifying that by going back into the vault to see some of the things I’ve said and update on what has happened with them. In some cases, quite a bit. In others, nothing at all. So strap in and let’s go on a journey…or more like one of those car trips where everything looks the same and you crave any new scenery or you’re going to veer off the road and crash into the guardrail.

August 13, 2013: I think it’s high time for them (Tulane) to move out of the Superdome and into a smaller stadium considering they wouldn’t be able to fill a Texas high school football stadium these days. First off, some Texas high school football stadiums are big. Like 10-20,000 seats big. And they damn near fill them! Insane. But anyway, this was my first, let’s call it request on this blog. And it worked! I don’t want to take credit for this but I am going to take credit for this. Tulane moved into on-campus Yulman Stadium one year after this comment. And they arguably get more fans in a stadium that, by all accounts, looks quite nice.

November 24, 2013: I still believe they need to cut down on the individual bowl tie-ins as there could be some somewhat unwatchable matchups come December that could be avoided with better flexibility. At the Power Five level, this has not changed and we could argue it has got a bit worse. At the Group of Five level, we now see a bit more flexibility with bowl bids. Some bowls just pick out of the G-5 conferences as a whole. And other bowls get a choice of two or three conferences. So it’s slightly better but really I was hoping there would be more at-large bids. Maybe I didn’t make myself clear.

October 15, 2014: I would say it makes the most sense to put all the ESPNU games, for example, on one channel throughout the day. Bell (and, presumably, Rogers) doesn’t think that way for some odd reason. And they still don’t. I don’t get it. It seems so easy but obviously someone in programming suffers from temporary brain damage when they are figuring out the schedule. IT’S THE SAME FUCKING THING FOR LIKE THIRTEEN WEEKS EVERY YEAR!

February 17, 2015: In OT, they should start farther back than the 25-yard line. Instead, the NCAA decided “Fuck it” and changed OT completely after the second overtime. That nine-overtime debacle between Illinois and Penn State should be proof that the new method is garbage. Should have listened to me guys. Even starting overtime from the 30 could have changed things radically since not many college kickers can routinely hit 47-yard field goals.

February 17, 2015: Stop time after EVERY first down makes the game a little longer than most can handle. Why they haven’t dealt with this I don’t know. There is no need for the clock to stop after a first down in the first or third quarters. You could make the argument that other than the final five minutes of either half you don’t need to either and I would be fine with that too. Shave about ten minutes off the average game? Sounds like a win for the college game if you ask me.

February 17, 2015: Three-hour TV windows are dumb. I was on a roll this day (although, to be fair, the whole point of this blog post was changed I’d make). And yes, whoever thinks these make sense are morons. I’m looking at you, ESPN, since you are the only ones that do it. Well, that isn’t entirely true. The ACC Network, for one week early on in the season every year now, does the same thing. It’s stupid. Just stop it.

July 6, 2015: TSN and Sportsnet both would be smart to stop the regional channel horseshit and make one channel a full news channel (a la Headline Sports way back in the day). This hasn’t happened and probably never will. Whether it should now is a matter of debate. I don’t know how many viewers Sportscentre and Sports Central get but it can’t be nearly as many as there were back in 2015. So to have a full sports news channel would still make sense but they would both have to restructure the way there channels operate (and, in Sportsnet’s case, talk to the NHL about the archaic blackout policy).

November 19, 2015: However, in my opinion, pretty much all FBS vs. FCS games should be in September (or August if the season starts then). I have softened my stance a bit on this. Buy games are necessary for FCS teams and I understand that. I still am not a fan of seeing these games in November but having them in October would be fine as well. With more conferences going to a 9-game conference schedule, I have a feeling there will be less of these games in November but we shall see.

August 4, 2017: Let’s be honest here: Conference USA is a hodge-podge bag of crap. If they were smart they would start talks with the Sun Belt to “create” two new conferences with more of a geographical natured to them. Oh this is one of my favourite blog posts of all-time. The amount of flack I got for this from Conference USA fans was hilarious. But look what happened. The conference is on the brink of disaster now because they did nothing, thinking they were even remotely special. Fucking dumb. So let them die. Many of the teams left for greener pastures and the rest…well, sorry for your damn luck.

November 20, 2018: I look forward, though, to balanced divisions in 2020, which I believe is the year the Atlantic Schooners begin play. Oh Bossman, what were you thinking? Forget adding a tenth team: almost every year it seems like one of the current nine CFL teams is in some sense of financial peril.

January 20, 2020: I agree there should be a holiday after the Super Bowl. Hasn’t even been discussed in the U.S. so no chance of it happening here yet. At least my plea for Daylight Savings Time to end might come to fruition!

August 3, 2020: If a division winner has a worse record than a Wild Card team, they should get the #5 seed and not the #4. I have said this in previous seasons when there were only two Wild Card teams but it goes the same now with three. You shouldn’t be rewarded for winning a shitty division with a bad record. You already get into the playoffs. That’s your reward. Same the other way as a really good Wild Card team shouldn’t be punished for having the audacity to be in a division with one of the best teams in the league. It’s dumb. And won’t be changed. Dumb owners and dumb Commissioner Gingerhammer.

December 17, 2020: I will say it again for the millionth time: why bother with the conference affiliation towards either CBS or FOX? It doesn’t matter anymore. Well look at that! They are finally getting rid of the completely archaic NFC-to-FOX and AFC-to-CBS way of broadcasting NFL games. It will now be a bit of a free-for-all which, honestly, is much better. You want the best games, at the best times, with the best available crew. Many times that didn’t happen in the past because of how things were done. Not anymore!

August 11, 2021: I still believe every team should have one road, one home and one neutral-site game during the preseason but that’s a conversation I’ve had many times before that no one wants to listen to. Naw, much better to have regular season games in London, Berlin, Paris, Rome, Baghdad, rural Kazakhstan and the Maldives. And no bye week afterwards ya pussies!

Every time I did a post on if I ran the bowl games. Look, my plan would work. Or the various plans I’ve had over the years. Cut a few bowls and make it a 7-win minimum to be bowl-eligible for sure. Give as many games a national spotlight (which they almost do but they could be better at it). Put a few more games on non-ESPN networks (I don’t know when this will ever happen). And the selection show. It would work so much better and make that thing worth watching.

So there you go. I know I have made other requests or had other ideas but I think you get the picture…I’m not influential at all. Saying that, some of my ideas have come to fruition which makes me happy if not a tiny bit proud. Maybe in the next few years a few more of my ideas will come true and I will be a very happy Bossman.

Alright. First post back. Feels good. Shake the cobwebs off. I am goofing around with new themes for the site to see what works. So if you notice things changing from week to week, it’s probably my undiagnosed ADD.

It’s already June. Where does the time go? I guess that happens when the days start melting together and you have very little sense of time. Have a great rest of the week everyone.