Nov. 17, 2004
NEW YORK - Mountain West Conference women's basketball will receive national regular season and tournament television coverage for the first time through a new package on CSTV: College Sports Television (www.collegesports.com). The package, part of the network's 2004-05 NCAA Basketball on CSTV package, will include six games from the Mountain West women's basketball tournament. Tim Neverett and Bill Doleman will rotate play-by-play duties, while Andrea Lloyd Curry and Krista Blunk will provide color commentary.
This package is a byproduct of the landmark CSTV-Mountain West Conference partnership announced in August 2004 that will, beginning in the fall of 2006, incorporate all conference-related media and marketing rights, including all television, national over-the-air and satellite radio, video-on-demand, online, broadband and exclusive corporate sponsorship rights. In September 2004, CSTV and the Mountain West announced that they will launch in 2006 the first regional sports network dedicated solely to an intercollegiate athletic conference.
2004-05 MWC Women's Basketball on CSTV (All times Eastern)
Sat., Jan. 22 Utah at New Mexico 4:00 p.m.
Thur., Feb. 3 UNLV at Utah 9:00 p.m.
Sat., Feb. 5 Colorado St. at New Mexico 4:00 p.m.
Sat., Feb. 26 UNLV at New Mexico 4:00 p.m.
Sat., Mar. 5 Utah at UNLV 6:00 p.m.
Wed., Mar. 9 Mountain West Conference Women's Tournament
Quarterfinal Game #1 2:00 p.m.
Quarterfinal Game #2 4:30 p.m.
Quarterfinal Game #3 9:30 p.m.
Quarterfinal Game #4 11:30 p.m.
Fri. Mar. 11 Mountain West Conference Women's Tournament
Semifinal Game #1 2:00 p.m.
Semifinal Game #2 4:30 p.m.
In addition to College Sports TV's remote coverage of Mountain West Conference women's basketball, the network will further cover and promote the conference and its teams via innovative studio programs such as The 1 College Sports Show, Full Court Press, Tourney Talk and Coast2Coach, shows which will cover every aspect of the college hoops scene.
Mountain West Conference women's basketball will also receive unsurpassed online coverage on CollegeSports.com and its network of official athletic sites. CollegeSports.com produces the MWC's official site, as well as the official athletic sites for New Mexico, San Diego State, UNLV and Utah. CollegeSports.com also produces the official athletic site for TCU, which is joining the MWC in 2005.
CollegeSports.com's exclusive GameTracker Live application offers real-time play-by-play, statistics and scores of Mountain West Conference women's basketball games, as well as other men's and women's college basketball games this season. CollegeSports.com's College Sports Pass subscription service will provide live audio of Mountain West Conference women's games, and other men's and women's games, as well.
The Mountain West Conference's Excellence in Women's Basketball
· The Mountain West Conference is one of only five conferences to average more than 2,500 fans per basketball game each of the past three years; New Mexico is one of just four institutions to average more than 11,000 fans per game the past two years
· Mountain West Conference teams return a record 13 all-MWC selections this season, including two-time defending Player of the Year Kim Smith of Utah and last season's Newcomer of the Year RanDee Henry of UNLV; the conference also returns all 10 top scorers and seven of the top 10 rebounders from a year ago
· Utah's Kim Smith is on the pre-season State Farm Wade Trophy and John R. Wooden Trophy watch lists for the best women's college basketball player
· New Mexico competed in last year's NCAA tournament, while UNLV and Colorado State advanced to the WNIT
The Mountain West Conference is one of the top collegiate conferences in the college sports arena and is compromised of eight Division I-A institutions including, The United States Air Force Academy, Brigham Young University, Colorado State University, University of New Mexico, University of Nevada - Las Vegas, San Diego State University, University of Utah, University of Wyoming. Beginning July 1, 2005, Texas Christian University will become the ninth member of the MWC.
CSTV is a multi-media company that consists of the first-ever 24-hour college sports television network, College Sports TV; the leading college sports online network, CollegeSports.com; and the first ever 24-hour college sports radio network, SIRIUS College Sports Radio. Through its numerous platforms, CSTV provides more live college sports games, events, news, information, analysis and broadband content, and reaches more college sports fans, than any other company.
College Sports TV, voted the No. 1 emerging cable network in the 2003 Beta research study, televises regular season and championship event coverage from over 35 men's and women's sports across every major collegiate athletic conference as well as many select NCAA Championships. College Sports TV currently has agreements with the top three national distributors - Comcast, DirecTV and Time Warner Cable, among others.
CollegeSports.com, the most-trafficked college sports Web site, and its network of nearly 160 official athletic sites are the No. 1 online source for college sports broadband content, news, information, scores and analysis. SIRIUS College Sports Radio will broadcast a comprehensive package of college football and basketball games from teams in the Big Ten, Big 12, BIG EAST, Pac-10 and SEC conferences, as well as from Notre Dame.
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