Television, Radio Coverage Set for Men's, Women's Basketball Championships

Feb. 28, 2005

The Horizon League announced Monday (Feb. 28) regional and national television and satellite radio broadcasts for the 2005 American Family Insurance Horizon League Men's and Women's Basketball Championships.


Both games of the men's championship semifinals on Saturday, March 5, will be aired on FSN Detroit, FSN Chicago, FSN North and FSN Ohio as well as Time-Warner Cable in the Dayton, Ohio, area. Tip-off times are 5:30 and 8 p.m EST. The stations will air all games live with the exceptions of the second game on FSN North (tape-delay at 10:30 p.m. EST) and both games on FSN Ohio (2 and 4 a.m. EST).


If Wright State hosts the women's semifinals on Sunday, March 6, both of those games will be available via video web streaming from a link at www.wsuraiders.com. Those games would begin at 1 and 3:30 p.m. EST.


The women's championship game on Monday, March 7, will be shown on FSN Detroit, FSN Chicago, FSN North, FSN Ohio and Time-Warner Cable in Dayton. The game will be aired live on all stations except FSN Ohio (tape-delay at 3 a.m. EST).


The men's championship game on Tuesday, March 8, will be broadcast nationwide on ESPN as part of the network's annual "Championship Week" schedule. Tip-off is 9:05 p.m. EST.


In addition, both of the men's semifinals will be available live nationwide on Sirius Satellite Radio, channel 136, while the men's championship game can be heard live on Sirius, channel 110.


For complete coverage of this year's American Family Insurance Horizon League Men's and Women's Basketball Championships, log onto the League's official web site at www.horizonleague.org.