Horizon League, Time-Warner Cable Sports partner to broadcast women's basketball championship

March 6, 2007

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The Horizon League and Time Warner Sports - Wisconsin announced on Tuesday (March 6) that they have partnered to provide coverage of all games of the 2007 Horizon League Women's Basketball Championship that are played at the Phoenix Sports Center on the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay campus.


The action on Time Warner Sports channel 32 will begin Wednesday (March 7) at 8 p.m. ET (7 p.m. CT) with quarterfinal action when top-seed and 22nd-ranked UW-Green Bay (25-3, 16-0 Horizon League) plays host to ninth-seed University of Detroit Mercy (5-25, 1-15), which upset eight-seed Loyola University Chicago 75-68 in Monday's first-round action.


As the regular-season champion, UW-Green Bay will host the semifinal doubleheader Friday (March 9) if the Phoenix wins its quarterfinal game. The first semifinal at 6 p.m. ET (5 p.m. CT) would match the winner of the Youngstown State-Butler game against the winner of the Cleveland State-UIC game. Then, at 8:30 p.m. ET (7:30 p.m. CT), Green Bay would play the winner of the Wright State-UW-Milwaukee game.


All games produced by Time Warner Sports - Wisconsin also will be available live for free on the Horizon League Network (HLN), the League's broadband channel at www.horizonleague.org.


Matt Menzl will call the play-by-play for each game, while former UW-Green Bay sports information director Brian Nicol will provide the color commentary.


"We are pleased to be able to partner with Time Warner Cable to provide television and broadband coverage of this year's women's basketball championship," said Horizon League Commissioner Jonathan B. LeCrone. "This is another step in our plans to increase coverage of our women's basketball teams. We look forward to some outstanding games this week on Time Warner Sports and on the Horizon League Network."


Bev Greenberg, Vice President, Time-Warner Cable stated, "This unique partnership will allow thousands across Wisconsin to enjoy and watch the Horizon League Women's Basketball Championship on Time Warner Cable's newest local channel, Time Warner Sports on channel 32." Greenberg added, "We created Time Warner Sports to bring our customers the games they wanted but couldn't get anywhere else."


Time Warner Cable owns and manages cable systems serving 13.4 million subscribers in 33 states. Passing approximately 26 million homes, Time Warner Cable includes some of the most technologically advanced and best-clustered cable systems in the country, with nearly 85 percent of the Company's customers located in five geographic regions: New York, Texas, Ohio, the Carolinas and southern California. Leveraging its leadership in innovation and quality customer care, Time Warner Cabledelivers advanced products and services such as video on demand, highdefinition television, digital video recorders, high-speed data andDigital Phone. Time Warner Cable is a subsidiary of Time Warner Inc.


Regardless of site, the Horizon League Women's Basketball Championship Game will be broadcast to a national audience Sunday (March 11) at 1 p.m. ET (12 p.m. CT) on ESPNU. Jim Barbar will call the play-by-play, and Patti Phillips will handle the analysis.