2004-05 NCAA Basketball On CSTV
76 game schedule tips off November 19.
Nov. 12, 2004
NEW YORK, November 11, 2004 - CSTV: College Sports Television (www.collegesports.com) will tip off its 76-game 2004-05 NCAA Basketball On CSTV schedule Friday, November 19, with the Pete Newell Challenge presented by Allstate, a doubleheader featuring perennial men's powers North Carolina and Stanford.
2004-05 NCAA Basketball On CSTV will also include five appearances from reigning NCAA women's champion Connecticut, a total of 17 teams which competed in last season's women's NCAA tournament, seven 2004 NCAA men's tournament teams and the first national Big East and Mountain West Conference women's basketball packages. Carter Blackburn and former North Carolina and Notre Dame head coach Matt Doherty will call the action for College Sports TV's men's games, while Beth Mowins, former North Carolina State star Debbie Antonelli and Ann Schatz will announce the women's games.
CSTV's coverage will also include an extensive lineup of studio programs featuring analysis from a deep roster of hoops experts including Seth Davis and Brian Curtis. The network will also premiere documentaries profiling legendary coaches John Wooden of UCLA and Mike Krzyzewski of Duke. In addition, CSTV's CollegeSports.com and its network of official athletic sites will provide the deepest and broadest live college basketball coverage on the Internet, and Sirius College Sports Radio, a joint partnership between CSTV and Sirius Satellite Radio, will for the first time provide satellite radio coverage of the premier college basketball programs in the country.
"Keeping with CSTV's mission of connecting college sports fans with college sports whenever, however and wherever, our 2004-05 NCAA Basketball On CSTV coverage covers more games and more teams, in more ways, than anyone else," said Tim Pernetti, senior vice president, programming, CSTV. "We are enabling college sports fans to follow their favorite schools and teams on television, on the Internet and on the radio."
Highlights of College Sports TV's college basketball coverage:
Appearances by seven teams that competed in the 2004 NCAA Men's Tournament: Stanford, North Carolina, Gonzaga, Princeton, Vermont, Northern Iowa and Pacific
Appearances by 17 teams that competed in the 2004 NCAA Women's Tournament, including defending champ Connecticut, semifinalist Tennessee, regional finalists Boston College and Penn State, and Baylor, Texas, North Carolina and New Mexico
The first national Big East women's basketball package featuring Connecticut and fellow NCAA tournament participants Notre Dame, Penn State, Villanova and Rutgers; the package also includes live quarterfinal and semifinal action of the Big East women's tournament
The first national Mountain West Conference women's basketball package featuring regular season games involving Colorado State, New Mexico, UNLV and Utah, as well as the quarterfinals and semifinals of the conference tournament
Additional men's and women's conference tournament action from the Western Athletic Conference, Ohio Valley Conference, Patriot League and America East
NAIA Men's and Women's Division I, II and III National Championships
Innovative studio programs such as The 1 College Sports Show, Full Court Press, Tourney Talk and Coast2Coach which will cover every aspect of the college hoops scene, featuring Seth Davis, Brian Curtis, Greg Amsinger, Adam Zucker and Penn Holderness
Highlights of CollegeSports.com's college basketball coverage:
The most extensive Internet and broadband coverage via CSTV's CollegeSports.com and its network of more than 170 official athletic sites of colleges and conferences such as Stanford, Notre Dame, North Carolina, Duke, the ACC, Southeastern Conference, Mountain West Conference and the Pac-10 Conference
CollegeSports.com's GameTracker Live's real-time play-by-play, statistics and scores coverage of more than 2,000 men's and women's games; CollegeSports.com's College Sports Pass subscription service providing live audio of more than 2,700 men's and women's games, and live video of approximately 200 men's and women's games
Expert analysis on CollegeSports.com from College Sports TV commentators such as Matt Doherty, Rebecca Lobo and Debbie Antonelli
CSTV's exclusive radio coverage:
Sirius College Sports Radio, co-produced by CSTV and Sirius Satellite Radio, will carry live satellite radio coverage of games featuring prominent programs such as Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Texas, UCLA, USC, Florida, Oklahoma, Syracuse and Tennessee
The 2004-05 NCAA Basketball On CSTV Schedule
All times Eastern; M = Men's; W = Women's
| 11/19 | Pete Newell Challenge presented by Allstate | |
| North Carolina vs. Santa Clara (M) | 9:00 p.m. |
| Stanford vs. San Francisco (M) @ Oakland, CA | 11:30 p.m. |
| 11/24 | Guardians Classic Championship (M) @ Kansas City, MO | 9:00 p.m. |
| 12/2 | Michigan St. @ Notre Dame (W) | 7:00 p.m. |
| 12/4 | Comcast Battle in Seattle UMass @ Gonzaga (M) @ Seattle, WA | 4:00 p.m. |
| 12/5 | North Carolina @ Penn St. (W) | 2:00 p.m. |
| 12/8 | Rutgers @ Princeton (M) | 7:30 p.m. |
| 12/9 | Penn St. @ Pittsburgh (W) | 8:00 p.m. |
| 12/18 | Nebraska @ Creighton (W) | 7:00 p.m. |
| 12/19 | Binghamton @ Vermont (M) | 12:00 p.m. |
| Old Dominion @ Penn St. (W) | 2:00 p.m. |
| 12/29 | Tennessee @ Rutgers (W) | 5:00 p.m. |
| 1/5 | Kansas @ Texas (W) | 8:00 p.m. |
| 1/8 | Holy Cross @ Bucknell (M) | 2:00 p.m. |
| Kansas St. @ Kansas (W) | 8:00 p.m. |
| 1/9 | Memphis @ Charlotte (W) | 1:00 p.m. |
| 1/12 | UConn @ Notre Dame (W) | 8:00 p.m. |
| 1/13 | Illinois vs. Penn St. (W) | 7:00 p.m. |
| 1/15 | Villanova @ UConn (W) | 7:00 p.m. |
| 1/16 | Boston University @ Vermont (M) | 12:00 p.m. |
| Oklahoma @ Baylor (W) | 3:00 p.m. |
| 1/20 | St. Mary's @ Pepperdine (M) | 10:00 p.m. |
| 1/22 | Utah @ New Mexico (W) | 9:30 p.m. |
| 1/23 | Navy @ Army (M) | 1:00 p.m. |
| 1/30 | Colgate @ American (M) | 2:00 p.m. |
| Cincinnati @ Memphis (W) | 4:00 p.m. |
| 2/3 | Rutgers @ UConn (W) | 7:00 p.m. |
| UNLV @ Utah (W) | 9:00 p.m. |
| 2/5 | Colorado St. @ New Mexico (W) | 4:00 p.m. |
| 2/6 | Colgate @ Lafayette (M) | 1:00 p.m. |
| Binghamton @ Maine (M) | 3:00 p.m. |
| 2/8 | St. John's @ West Virginia (W) | 7:00 p.m. |
| 2/9 | Creighton @ Northern Iowa (M) | 8:00 p.m. |
| 2/10 | Boston College @ UConn (W) | 8:00 p.m. |
| 2/12 | American @ Bucknell (M) | 12:00 p.m. |
| Pacific @ Utah St. (M) | 10:30 p.m. |
| 2/13 | Lehigh @ Holy Cross (M) | 2:00 p.m. |
| 2/15 | Notre Dame @ Boston College (W) | 7:00 p.m. |
| 2/17 | Wisconsin @ Penn St. (W) | 7:00 p.m. |
| 2/19 | Colgate @ Holy Cross (W) | 2:00 p.m. |
| 2/20 | Northwestern @ Penn St. (W) | 2:00 p.m. |
| 2/22 | Pittsburgh @ UConn (W) | 7:30 p.m. |
| 2/26 | Lehigh @ Lafayette (M) | 1:00 p.m. |
| UNLV @ New Mexico (W) | 4:00 p.m. |
| 3/1 | Rutgers @ Villanova (W) | 7:30 p.m. |
| 3/3 | Patriot League Women's Tournament | 8:00 p.m. |
| 3/3 | Big South Men's Tournament - Semi final | 10:00 p.m. |
| 3/4 | Big South Men's Tournament - Semi final | 6:00 p.m. |
| 3/5 | Ohio Valley Conference Women's Championship | 1:00 p.m. |
| Utah @ UNLV (W) | 6:00 p.m. |
| 3/6 | Big East Women's Championship
| | Quarterfinal Game #1 | 12:00 p.m. |
| Quarterfinal Game #2 | 2:00 p.m. |
| Quarterfinal Game #3 | 6:00 p.m. |
| Quarterfinal Game #4 | 8:00 p.m. |
| Patriot League Men's Tournament | 10:00 p.m. |
| 3/7 | America East Men's Championship
| | Semi-final Game #1 | 2:00 p.m. |
| Semi-final Game #2 | 4:00 p.m. |
| Big East Women's Championship
| | Semifinal Game #1 | 6:00 p.m. |
| Semifinal Game #2 | 8:00 p.m. |
| 3/8 | Penn @ Princeton (M) | 7:30 p.m. |
| 3/9 | Mountain West Conference Women's Tournament
| | Quarterfinal Game #1 | 2:00 p.m. |
| Quarterfinal Game #2 | 4:30 p.m. |
| Patriot League Women's Championship | 7:00 p.m. |
| Mountain West Conference Women's Tournament
| | Quarterfinal Game #3 | 9:30 p.m. |
| Quarterfinal Game #4 | 11:30 p.m. |
| 3/11 | Mountain West Conference Women's Tournament
| | Semifinal Game #1 | 2:00 p.m. |
| Semifinal Game #2 | 4:30 p.m. |
| 3/12 | WAC Women's Championship | 3:00 p.m. |
| America East Women's Championship | 7:00 p.m. |
| 3/15 | NAIA Women's Division II Basketball Champ. | 7:30 p.m. |
| @ Sioux City, IA
| | NAIA Men's Division II Basketball Championship | 9:30 p.m. |
| @ Point Lookout, MO
| | 3/19 | NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Championship | 3:00 p.m. |
| NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Champ. | 5:00 p.m. |
| 3/22 | NAIA Division I Women's Basketball Championship | 7:00 p.m. |
| @ Kansas City, MO
| | NAIA Division I Men's Basketball Championship | 9:00 p.m. |
| @ Jackson, TN
| | 3/23 | Roundball Classic | 8:00 p.m. |
| @ Chicago, IL
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