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ESPNHD will present the exclusive, live announcement of the women’s 64-team field on the NCAA® Women’s Basketball Selection Special March 12 at 8 p.m. ET. Trey Wingo will host alongside analysts Stacey Dales and Kara Lawson.
The one-hour show will mark ESPN’s 15th consecutive year of announcing
the pairings days before it begins complete coverage of the NCAA
Division I Women’s Basketball Championship March 17 – April 3 on ESPN,
ESPN2, ESPNU and ESPN FULL COURT. In addition, ESPN360, ESPN’s
customized broadband service, and ESPNU, the 24-hour college sports
network, will simulcast the show, while more women’s NCAA Championship
content will be featured across other ESPN entities, including SportsCenter, ESPNEWS and ESPN.com.
At 9 p.m., ESPNU will provide supplemental coverage of Selection Monday with a one-hour show, 2007 NCAA Women’s Basketball Selection Special. ESPNU’s Mike Hall will host the show and be joined by women’s basketball analyst Charlene Curtis,
who will give her thoughts on this year’s bracket as well as breakdown
the first-round matchups. The show will also feature special guests
from around the world of women’s basketball. SportsCenter and ESPNEWS will too feature updates and comments from women’s basketball experts throughout the day.
On Tuesday, March 13, Wingo, Dales and Lawson will return for a 30-minute edition of the NCAA Women’s Championship Special on
ESPNHD at 7 p.m. This show will further examine the bracket seeds and
matchups with more reaction from the women’s college basketball
community.
A SNEAK PREVIEW OF THE NCAA WOMEN'S SELECTION MONDAY SPECIAL
(March 12, 8-9 p.m.)
Immediate analysis and thoughts by Dales and Lawson as the brackets are announced on the program;Exclusive interview with NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Committee Chair Judy Southard from NCAA headquarters in Indianapolis by Wingo via satellite; Dales and Lawson picking their Women’s Final Four® teams; Live interviews and reactions from the following women’s basketball programs: Arizona State, Duke, Middle Tennessee State and N.C. State; A look at the "Sleeper Teams" – teams ranked outside the Top10.
SELECTION MONDAY ON ESPN.COM
Team-by-team breakdown of all 64 tourney teams by Beth Mowins, Mechelle Voepel and Graham Hays; Live chats with committee chair Judy Southard (10:30 p.m. ET), ESPN.com columnist and women’s bracketologist Charlie Crème and ESPN analyst Nancy Lieberman;Expert
analysis from Lieberman, Mowins, Crème and Voepel, including their
picks on the toughest region, best first-round game, Women’s Final Four
and more.
WOMEN’S TOURNAMENT CHALLENGE ON ESPN.COM
Sign-up has begun on ESPN.com for the 10th annual ESPN Women’s Tournament Challenge Presented by Pontiac.
The Tournament Challenge game is free and allows contestants to
complete and submit up to five entries. Fans complete and submit a
bracket of hypothetical tournament outcomes. Points are awarded for
each correct pick, with point values increasing as the Tournaments
progress.
The Women’s
Tournament Challenge winner will receive a $5,000 Circuit City gift
certificate, and the runner-up will receive a $1,000 Circuit City gift
card. Entries for the Women’s Tournament Challenge will be accepted
until just prior to tip-off of the first game on Saturday, March 17.
ALL 63 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES ON ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU & ESPN FULL
COURT
For the fifth consecutive year, ESPN, ESPN2,
ESPNU and ESPN FULL COURT will combine to present all 63 games from the
NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Championship. During the first two
rounds, ESPN and ESPN2 will present the 48 games within 12 telecast
windows in a whip-around format with home market protection. ESPN FULL
COURT, ESPN’s out-of-market pay-per-view package, will offer complete
game telecasts of all 48 games, while ESPNU will offer 12 of the 48
early-round games on ESPN or ESPN2. The final 15 games (regional
semifinals on) will have national telecasts windows on ESPN or ESPN2.
The complete schedule will be announced next week.
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