February 25, 2026
USA Sports’ LOVB Viewership Up 55% vs. 2025, Coming Off Most-Watched LOVB Broadcast in History on USA Network on Feb.4
Atlantic 10: With Two Weeks Remaining in Regular Season, Fordham Visits VCU this Saturday at 12:30 p.m. ET and Davidson Hosts La Salle Sunday at Noon ET
Premier League: Four Matches Live on USA Network this Weekend Headlined by Liverpool Hosting West Ham this Saturday at 10 a.m. ET
STAMFORD, Conn. – Feb. 25, 2026 – USA Network’s live sports coverage continues with LOVB’s Game of the Week tonight at 8 p.m. ET, two Atlantic 10 men’s basketball games, and four Premier League matches this weekend.
LOVB: Game of the Week on USA Network
USA Network’s LOVB Game of the Week coverage continues tonight at 8 p.m. ET as defending champion LOVB Austin (6-6) hosts first-place LOVB Salt Lake (8-2) from H-E-B Center at Cedar Park in Cedar Park, Texas.
LOVB Austin, who lost 3-2 to LOVB Madison on Sunday, boasts two of the top three-point scorers in the league this season with opposite hitter Madisen Skinner (194 points), the 2025 LOVB Finals MVP, and outside hitter Logan Eggleston (169). Eggleston and Skinner trail only LOVB Houston’s Jordan Thompson, who leads LOVB with 245 points this year.
LOVB Salt Lake, who have the best record in the league at 8-2 this season, had won seven straight matches before losing to LOVB Houston 3-1 over the weekend. Outside hitter Alexa Gray, who earned two WCC Player of the Year honors while playing collegiately at BYU, leads the team and ranks fifth in the league with 152 points.
Through the first five weeks of USA Network's presentation of LOVB’s Game of the Week, viewership is up 55% vs. 2025’s regular season average. USA Network's most recent Game of the Week matchup between LOVB Atlanta and LOVB Austin on Feb. 4 ranks as the most-watched LOVB game of all time, topping the 2026 season’s First Serve matchup, also on USA Network. USA Network has now aired five of the top six most watched regular season LOVB games in the network’s inaugural year broadcasting the league.
Two-time Olympic medalist, world champion and NCAA champion Courtney Thompson (analyst) and long-time volleyball play-by-play commentator, analyst and sideline reporter Shelby Coppedge (play-by-play) will serve as the broadcast team for the LOVB Game of the Week, airing Wednesday nights on USA Network. Click here for more on Thompson and Coppedge.
USA Network will exclusively air the league’s Game of the Week in primetime on Wednesday nights at 8 p.m. ET and will feature LOVB’s second semifinals match (April 12) and both championship matches (April 16 and 18), where the 2026 LOVB champions will be crowned live to a primetime audience.
LOVB x WWE
Ahead of tonight’s LOVB Salt Lake vs. LOVB Austin Game of the Week, WWE Superstar Charlotte Flair recently spoke about her volleyball career and how it helped mold her career as a wrestler. Click here to watch and catch WWE SmackDown every Fridy at 8 p.m. ET on USA Network.
Atlantic 10 on USA Network
USA Sports continues its coverage of the 2025-26 Atlantic 10 basketball season this weekend with two men’s games on USA Network.
At 12:30 p.m. ET on Saturday, Fordham (16-12) visits second-place VCU (21-7). With three games left in the regular season, VCU is one game behind Saint Louis in the conference standings. Steve Burkowski (play-by-play) and Tim McCormick (analyst) will call the matchup live from the Siegel Center in Richmond, Va.
On Sunday, Davidson (16-11) hosts La Salle (8-19) at Noon ET. Steve Schlanger (play-by-play) and John Giannini (analyst) will call the game live from Belk Arena in Davidson, N.C.
Atlantic 10 Men’s Basketball Live on USA Network | ||||
| Game | Time (ET) | Play-by-Play | Analyst |
Sat., Feb. 28 | Fordham at VCU | 12:30 p.m. | Steve Burkowski | Tim McCormick |
Sun., March 1 | La Salle at Davidson | Noon | Steve Schlanger | John Giannini |
Premier League on USA Network
USA Network presents four Premier League matches this week, beginning this Friday with Premier League Live leading into Wolverhampton Wanderers v. Aston Villa.
On Saturday, Premier League Mornings begins at 7 a.m. ET, followed by Bournemouth v. Sunderland at 7:30 a.m. ET. Next at 10 a.m. ET, Virgil van Dijk and sixth-place Liverpool host West Ham from Anfield.
On Sunday, Premier League Mornings begins on USA Network at 8 a.m. ET, leading into Fulham hosting Tottenham Hotspur at 9 a.m. ET.
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