Southland TV Network Will Televise 16 Basketball Games in 2010
FRISCO, Texas - The Southland Conference Television Network will televise 16 men's and women's basketball games during the 2009-10 season, the league office announced Thursday.
"We are very pleased to again announce a very attractive basketball package on the Southland Network," league commissioner Tom Burnett said. "After televising the highest number of basketball games in conference history on the network last year, we are excited about matching that with 16 more broadcasts in 2010. Additionally, the Network provides great viewing access for the conference tournament, and many of our games will also be available to a national audience."
The broadcast schedule features 10 men's games and six women's games in the second year of the network. The slate gets underway Saturday, Jan. 9 when the Stephen F. Austin men's team visits Sam Houston State. The Lumberjacks, who won both the regular season and tournament championships last season, are the favorite in the preseason coaches' poll to win the East Division in 2009-10, while the Bearkats were picked by the league's coaches to repeat its West Division title. The next week, on Jan. 16, the network will televise McNeese State at Lamar. Both of those games will tip off at 2 p.m.
On Jan. 23, the Nicholls and Northwestern State men and women will play a doubleheader in Natchitoches, La. Both games will be televised. The women's game will begin at 2 p.m. and the men's game will follow at 4:30 p.m. UT Arlington and Texas State close out the month of January with a 2 p.m. tipoff Jan. 30 in San Marcos, Texas.
Southeastern Louisiana and UTSA open the month of February with a 2 p.m. contest in San Antonio on Feb. 6. The next week, Feb. 13, the UTSA women will travel to take on UT Arlington on the stage at Texas Hall. The teams shared the 2009 regular season championship and battled in the tournament final before the Roadrunners claimed the title to advance to the NCAA tournament, where it nearly upset Baylor in the opening round.
On Feb. 20, the men's team from UT Arlington will travel to Conway, Ark., for a 2 p.m. game at Central Arkansas. The men's teams from Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and Stephen F. Austin close out the month with a Feb. 27 date in Nacogdoches, Texas.
As the race for the conference tournament heats up in March, so, too, does the Network schedule. A women's wild card game will be televised on Wednesday, March 3 and a men's wild card game will be televised on March 6, the final day of the regular season. Those matchups will be announced in late February.
Then comes the 2010 State Farm Southland Conference Basketball Tournament in Katy, Texas, when the Network will televise five games, including both men's and women's semifinal games on Thursday, March 11, as well as the women's championship game March 12. The men's championship game will be televised by ESPN2.
ESPN Full Court will pick up at least five of the Southland TV games for inclusion on its pay-per-view broadcast package and will simulcast those games on ESPN360.com. More games could be added to the Full Court package at a later date.
Additionally, all 16 games on the Southland TV Network will be streamed live for free on SLC NOW, the live and on-demand audio and video portal on Southland.org, the official Web site of the Southland Conference.
Southland Conference Television Network Schedule
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Day, Date
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Game
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Network
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Other
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Time
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Sat. Jan. 9
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Stephen F. Austin at Sam Houston State* (Men)
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SLC TV
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2 p.m.
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Sat. Jan. 16
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McNeese State at Lamar* (Men)
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SLC TV
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2 p.m.
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Sat., Jan. 23
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Nicholls at Northwestern State* (Women)
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SLC TV
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2 p.m.
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Sat., Jan. 23
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Nicholls at Northwestern State* (Men)
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SLC TV
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ESPNFC
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4:30 p.m.
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Sat., Jan. 30
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UT Arlington at Texas State* (Men)
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SLC TV
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2 p.m.
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Sat., Feb. 6
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Southeastern Louisiana at UTSA* (Men)
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SLC TV
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ESPNFC
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2 p.m.
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Sat., Feb. 13
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UTSA at UT Arlington* (Women)
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SLC TV
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ESPNFC
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2 p.m.
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Sat., Feb. 20
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UT Arlington at Central Arkansas* (Men)
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SLC TV
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2 p.m.
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Sat., Feb. 27
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Texas A&M-Corpus Christi at Stephen F. Austin* (Men)
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SLC TV
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2 p.m.
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Wed., March 3
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Wildcard Game TBA* (Women)
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SLC TV
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ESPNFC
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7 p.m.
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Sat., March 6
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Wildcard Game TBA* (Men)
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SLC TV
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ESPNFC
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2 p.m.
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Thur., March 11
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Southland Tournament Women's Semifinal 1
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SLC TV
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Noon
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Thur., March 11
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Southland Tournament Women's Semifinal 2
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SLC TV
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2:30 p.m.
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Thur., March 11
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Southland Tournament Men's Semifinal 1
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SLC TV
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6 p.m.
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Thur., March 11
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Southland Tournament Men's Semifinal 2
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SLC TV
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8:30 p.m.
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Fri., March 12
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Southland Tournament Women's Championship Game
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SLC TV
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7 p.m.
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All Times Central
* Southland Conference Game
SLC TV - Southland Conference Television Network
ESPNFC - ESPN Full Court and ESPN 360
All Games will be streamed free on SLC NOW