Doris Burke

BASKETBALL ANALYST & REPORTER

Doris Burke, a versatile basketball commentator who calls both men’s and women’s college and pro contests, has covered basketball for ESPN since March 1991, as well as the NCAA Division II Women’s Basketball Championship. She works a variety of ESPN assignments, including regular-season (since 1994) and NCAA Tournament (since 1995) women’s basketball, regular-season (since 1999) and Championship Week (since 2001) men’s basketball, ESPN Regional Television men’s BIG EAST basketball contests (since 1996), WNBA games (since 1998; sideline reporter as of 2003), plus the WNBA Draft and more. In 2003, she added sideline reporting duties on select NBA telecasts.

In addition to her work with ESPN, Burke serves as a WNBA analyst for the New York Liberty on MSG Network (since 1998) and previously served as a women’s college basketball analyst for CBS Sports (1998-2001) and Westwood One Radio (2000-02).

The only woman to do a Knicks radio/television broadcast (2000) and call a BIG EAST men’s basketball game on television, Burke also has been a frequent columnist for Basketball Times Magazine and Eastern Basketball Magazine since 2001 as well as a contributing writer on the Web site for the Center for Sports Parenting.

From 1990-2000, Burke was an analyst on regional coverage of BIG EAST and Atlantic 10 women’s basketball on the New England Sports Network (NESN), Prime or SportsChannel. She also worked for the Atlantic 10 Men’s Basketball Network (1999-2001), the MAAC Women’s Basketball Network (1997-99) and ECAC men’s and women’s weekly telecasts (1995-97). She served as a play-by-play commentator for Providence College women’s basketball on WICE/WNPW Radio (1990-97) and Providence College men’s basketball with WPRO Radio (1992-95). She spent three years as a women’s basketball analyst with the Penn State Television Network (1993-95).

A former basketball standout at Providence College who held seven records upon graduation, Burke finished her career as the school and conference all-time assists leader (602), Providence’s single-season leader in assists (224), and single-season  (152) and career (440) leader in free throws. She served as an assistant coach for her Alma mater for two years (1988-90). In 2000, she was inducted into the Providence College Hall of Fame, and she received an honorary doctorate from the school in 2005.

In 2002, the Institute for International Sport named Burke one of 15 Sports Ethics Fellows and in 2004 inducted her into the Scholar-Athlete Hall of Fame. In 2006, she was inducted into the New England Basketball Hall of Fame, and in 2007 she was honored with the Woman of Excellence Trailblazer Award from the Rhode Island Women’s Center.

Raised in Manasquan, N.J., Burke graduated from Providence College with a degree in health service administration/social work and also earned her master’s in education at Providence.

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