If you can make yourself breathe it means it's college basketball season

Check really quickly before you start celebrating.

With a bevy of preseason tournaments set to tip-off, the next week and-a-half is going to be as close as any of us get to March until, well, March. It all starts tonight at midnight with the first of 14 games in 23 hours that will be carried on the ESPN family of networks.

Here's your schedule for the event:

• Midnight: UMass at Memphis (ESPN)
• 2 a.m.: Fresno St. at St. Mary's (ESPN)
• 4 a.m.: Idaho St. at Hawaii (ESPN)
• 6 a.m.: College Hoops Tip-Off Special (ESPN)
• 10 a.m.: Penn at Drexel (ESPN)
• Noon: Liberty at UNC-Asheville (ESPN)
• 2 p.m.: Iowa at Kansas (women) (ESPN)
• 4 p.m.: Centenary at Baylor (ESPN)
• 6 p.m.: Richmond at Syracuse (ESPN)
• 7 p.m.: NIT Regional Final-Purdue (ESPNU)
• 7:30 p.m.: NIT Regional Final-Boston College (ESPN2)
• 8 p.m.: College GameDay-Chapel Hill (ESPN)
• 9 p.m.: Kentucky at North Carolina (ESPN)
• 9 p.m.: Florida Gulf Coast at Kansas (ESPNU)
• 9:30 p.m.: NIT Regional Final-Oklahoma (ESPN2)
• 11:30 p.m.: NIT Regional Final-Arizona (ESPN2)

Last 15 minutes of the 'Bows and Bengals to start your Tuesday? Why the hell not.

I'll see you in four and-a-half months, world.

Via Marc Murphy, C-J