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NCAA News Release

Division II Basketball Selection Shows to be Televised

For Immediate Release

Tuesday. March 1, 2005
Contact(s)
Chris Farrow
Manager of Broadcasting
317/917-6832

INDIANAPOLIS---The 2005 NCAA Division II men’s and women’s basketball championship brackets will be announced exclusively in two thirty-minute selection shows Sunday evening March 6, 2005.

NCAA Productions will produce and syndicate the live announcements of the 64-team Division II basketball brackets from Indianapolis. The women’s bracket will be announced at 10 p.m. Eastern time/7 p.m. Pacific time, while the men’s bracket will be released at 10:30 p.m. Eastern time/7:30 p.m. Pacific time.


Altitude Sports and Entertainment (DirecTV channel 644 and Dish Network channel 410) will air both selection shows live. Regional sports networks, Carolina Sports and Entertainment (C-SET), Comcast Sports Southeast (CSS) and Comcast Local (Michigan) will all air both selection shows live. Cox Sport Television will air the shows on a same day tape delay. Madison Square Garden Network (DirecTV channel 621 and Dish Network 412) will air only the men’s bracket announcement same day tape delay at 11 p.m. Eastern time / 8 p.m. Pacific time.

In addition, NCAAsports.com will stream the shows live over the Internet. Indiana sportscasters Anthony Calhoun will host the women’s selection show and Jim Barbar will anchor the men’s show. For information on the NCAA winter championships, log on to www.ncaasports.com.

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