ESPNU's 2008 College Lacrosse Schedule Includes More Than 40 Games

- ESPN2 to Televise its First-Ever Regular-Season Game
- Entire NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Tournament Exclusively on ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU

January 16, 2008 -- This season’s college lacrosse schedule includes extensive regular-season action on ESPNU, plus coverage of the entire NCAA Division I Men’s Lacrosse Championship exclusively on ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU.

The ESPN networks will open coverage with two games on ESPNU Saturday, Feb. 23, when 2007 National Champion #1 Johns Hopkins will host #12 Albany at 12 p.m. ET and #16 Loyola (Md.) will play at #13 Towson at 10 p.m. (tape delay). In addition, ESPN2 will air the first-ever regular-season college lacrosse game in the history of the network at noon on Saturday, Mar. 29, with #3 Virginia visiting #6 Maryland. In all, the networks combined will televise 47 games, including 32 regular-season matchups (up from 21) and 15 NCAA Tournament contests, primarily on ESPNU.

ESPNU’s men’s lacrosse regular-season line-up will showcase 17 of the top 25 teams, according to Inside Lacrosse’s Face-Off Yearbook preseason Top 25, while all three of the women’s teams to be featured on ESPNU ranked in the top 20 in last season’s final Inside Lacrosse Women’s Media Poll. Of the16 men’s NCAA Tournament teams from 2007, 14 will make at least one appearance.

The schedule showcases 24 contests between top 25 teams, including a re-match of the 2007 National Championship game between Johns Hopkins and #2 Duke on Saturday, April 5, and the second annual Konica Minolta Face-Off Classic, featuring #11 Syracuse vs. Virginia and Johns Hopkins vs. #8 Princeton on Saturday, March 1.

As part of its multi-year agreement with Johns Hopkins University lacrosse, ESPNU will continue presenting every home game for the men’s team. This season, Johns Hopkins will be featured 13 times, including 11 men’s games and two women’s matchups.

For the second year in a row, the ESPN networks will televise the entire NCAA Division I Men’s Lacrosse Championship. ESPNU will televise the exclusive announcement of the16-team field for the NCAA Tournament during a special one-hour selection show on Sunday, May 4 at 9 p.m. ESPNU will also provide exclusive coverage of all eight First Round games and Quarterfinal action (May 10 – 18); ESPN2 will televise the National Semifinals (May 24) and ESPN will present the National Championship on May 26.

Supplementing game coverage at the beginning and end of the season, Inside Lacrosse TV will return on ESPN2 with two one-hour specials and a 30-minute special on ESPNU, hosted by Dave Ryan and Quint Kessenich, four-time lacrosse All-American and 1990 graduate of Johns Hopkins University. On ESPN2, the preview special will be aired on Thursday, Feb. 21, at 4 p.m. and the Championship preview special is scheduled to be aired Tuesday, May 20 at 4 p.m., with coverage concluding on ESPNU with a season review on Wednesday, May 28 at 7:30 p.m., followed by the Major League Lacrosse Draft, live, at 8 p.m. In addition, ESPN.com will offer extensive online coverage of lacrosse and integrated coverage of professional, collegiate and prep lacrosse content from Insidelacrosse.com and Inside Lacrosse Magazine.

The commentators slated for this season’s coverage will include Mark Dixon, Scott Garceau, Kessenich, Dave Ryan, 2006 Tewaaraton Trophy Winner and National Champion at the University of Virginia, Matt Ward and more.

2008 ESPNU COLLEGE LACROSSE REGULAR-SEASON SCHEDULE
Date Time Game

Sat., Feb. 23
12 p.m.
Albany at Johns Hopkins

Sat., Feb. 23
10 p.m.
*^Loyola (Md.) at Towson

Sat., Mar. 1
12 p.m.
Konica Minolta Face-Off Classic: Syracuse at Virginia (M&T Bank Stadium – Baltimore, Md.)

2:30 p.m.
Konica Minolta Face-Off Classic: Johns Hopkins at Princeton

5:30 p.m.
Maryland at Duke

10 p.m.
*^Denver at UMBC

Tues., Mar. 4
7 p.m.
UMBC at Johns Hopkins

Fri., Mar. 7
4 p.m.
Georgetown at Johns Hopkins (women’s)

Sat., Mar. 8
12 p.m.
Virginia at Princeton

2 p.m.
*Duke at Loyola (Md.)

Sat., Mar. 15
12 p.m.
*Syracuse at Johns Hopkins

2:30 p.m.
Hofstra at Princeton

Mon., Mar. 17
4 p.m.
Maryland at Johns Hopkins (women’s)

Sat., Mar. 22
2 p.m.
*^Duke at Georgetown

4 p.m.
Johns Hopkins at Virginia

6 p.m.
Maryland at North Carolina

Sat., Mar. 29
12 p.m.
Virginia at Maryland (on ESPN2)

2 p.m.
*North Carolina at Johns Hopkins

Fri., Apr. 4
8 p.m.
*Navy at Maryland

Sat., Apr. 5
12 p.m.
*Delaware at Towson

4 p.m.
Virginia at North Carolina

6 p.m.
Johns Hopkins at Duke

Sat., Apr. 12
12 p.m.
Navy at Army

2 p.m.
*Maryland at Johns Hopkins

6 p.m.
Duke at Virginia

Sat., Apr. 19
12 p.m.
Duke at Army

4 p.m.
Cornell at Princeton

8 p.m.
*Hartford at UMBC

Wed., Apr. 23
7 p.m.
Towson at Johns Hopkins

Sat., Apr. 26
1 p.m.
*Pennsylvania at Towson

Mon., Apr. 28
7 p.m.
Mount St. Mary’s at Johns Hopkins

Sat., May 3
1 p.m.
*Johns Hopkins at Loyola (Md.)

*Will co-exist on WMAR-TV
^Tape delay

2008 NCAA DIVISION I MEN’S LACROSSE CHAMPIONSHIP COVERAGE ON ESPN, ESPN2 AND ESPNU
Date Network Time Game

Sat., May 10
ESPNU
12 p.m.
NCAA First Round – Game 1 (TBD)

ESPNU
2:30 p.m.
NCAA First Round – Game 2 (TBD)

ESPNU
5 p.m.
NCAA First Round – Game 3 (TBD)

ESPNU
7:30 p.m.
NCAA First Round – Game 4 (TBD)

Sun., May 11
ESPNU
12 p.m.
NCAA First Round – Game 5 (TBD)

ESPNU
2:30 p.m.
NCAA First Round – Game 6 (TBD)

ESPNU
5 p.m.
NCAA First Round – Game 7 (TBD)

ESPNU
7:30 p.m.
NCAA First Round – Game 8 (TBD)

Sat., May 17
ESPNU
12 p.m.
Quarterfinal # 1 – Annapolis, Md.

ESPNU
3 p.m.
Quarterfinal #2 – Annapolis, Md.

Sun., May 18
ESPNU
12 p.m.
Quarterfinal #3 – Ithaca, N.Y.

ESPNU
3 p.m.
Quarterfinal #4 – Ithaca, N.Y.

Sat., May 24
ESPN2
12 p.m.
Semifinal #1 – Gillette Stadium (Foxboro, Mass.)

ESPN2
2:30 p.m.
Semifinal #2 – Gillette Stadium

Mon., May 26
ESPN
1 p.m.
NCAA National Championship – Gillette Stadium

ESPNU

ESPNU was launched on March 4, 2005. The network features extensive studio programming and live coverage of games, including college football, college basketball and other Olympic sports from over 20 Division I conferences. The network also has a wide-ranging, long-term agreement with the NCAA calling for enhanced coverage of 22 NCAA Championships, showcasing sports from each of the three collegiate seasons. ESPNU also has re-air rights to games on ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, and ESPN Regional television programming.

In addition, ESPNU.com, the companion to the ESPNU college sports television network, is the online destination for college sports content, including news, information, extensive online video and audio and more.

ESPNU currently reaches approximately 20 million homes through secured distribution agreements with Charter, Cox, DIRECTV (Channel 609), EchoStar’s DISH Network (Channel 148), AT&T, Insight Communications, Mediacom, Time Warner, Verizon, hundreds of smaller affiliates and is close to distribution agreements with many others.

Source: ESPN

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