Bearkats to be featured twice on TV
11/16/2007 1:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
The Sam Houston State men's basketball team will play twice on Fox Sports Net this season as part of the Southland Conference's 15-game television package.
The Bearkats will host Texas-Arlington on Jan. 30 and then will play a road game against Stephen F. Austin on Feb. 21.
The Southland Conference will have 15 regionally-televised men's and women's basketball games during the 2007-08 season on regional cable networks Fox Sports Net and Cox Sports television. The contests televised on FSN and CST are part of a larger 47-game package of regional and national cable broadcasts involving Southland teams this season.
Eight games will be featured on FSN Southwest, which serves nearly eight million cable households in
"We are pleased to again announce a great package of games on our two regional cable partners," Burnett said. "Both FSN Southwest and CST are providing great opportunities for Southland Conference athletics, and we are very appreciative of the interest shown by both networks in our basketball."
FSN Southwest will again televise the Southland Conference Women's Basketball Tournament championship game, set for March 15, at the
In other men's action on FSN, UTSA will play at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on Feb. 2, Lamar will play at
CST, which recently celebrated its fifth anniversary, will broadcast five men's games, including Southeastern Louisiana at
Women's games slated for CST are Northwestern at Nicholls on Jan. 31, and Nicholls at Southeastern on Feb. 23.
