Horizon League Volleyball Championship Match to Air Live on Television Throughout the Midwest
Nov. 17, 2005
The 2005 Horizon League Championship match will air live on television stations throughout the Midwest, the League office announced Thursday (Nov. 17).
Comcast Sports Net Chicago will air the match live from the Flames Center, beginning at 2 p.m. ET on Sunday, Nov. 20. The Ohio News Network and Comcast Indianapolis will also carry live coverage, while WMLW-Milwaukee will tape delay the broadcast to air at 5 p.m. ET. Jim Blaney of Comcast Sports Chicago will handle the play-by-play, while Amy Lamb will serve as color commentator.
Tournament action begins today at the Flames Center on the campus of University of Illinois at Chicago, with a match-up between fifth-seeded University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and eighth-seeded Youngstown State University at 6 p.m. ET. The Phoenix won both contests between the two teams this season, a 3-0 win on Oct. 7 and a five-game victory on Nov. 5.
In a repeat of the regular-season League finale for both teams, sixth-seeded Butler University will square off against seventh-seeded Wright State University in the second match of the tournament, beginning at 8:30 p.m. ET on Thursday, Nov. 17. The Raiders took both matches from the Bulldogs this season.
The winner of Thursday's UW-Green Bay/Youngstown State match will face No. 4-seed Loyola University of Chicago on the second day of competition at 6 p.m. ET on Friday, Nov. 18, while either Butler or Wright State will advance to face tournament host and third-seeded UIC at 8:30 p.m. that evening.
UW-Milwaukee, which has won the last three regular season titles outright, will have a bye into the semifinal round of the tournament. The top-seeded Panthers compiled a 12-2 League record this season and put together a string of ten straight wins. Second-seeded Cleveland State University will also have a bye into the semifinals with the Vikings playing their first tournament match on Saturday, Nov. 20 at 5:30 p.m. CSU finished with an 11-3 record in League play, breaking the previous school record of six wins against Horizon League opponents.
The championship match is scheduled for Sunday at 2 p.m. ET, with the winner earning the Horizon League's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament, which will be begin Dec. 1 at campus sites. The 2005 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Championship will take place at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, on Dec. 15 and 17.
