ATLANTA, Ga. - SportSouth and the Southern Conference today announced their 2009-10 basketball television schedule, which includes 14 men's and five women's games. SportSouth will televise 15 games, with an additional four games scheduled to air on FOX Sports South. The SoCon Saturdays brand, utilized to promote Southern Conference programming on SportSouth, returns for the 2009-10 SoCon basketball schedule, as all 10 regular-season games will be televised on Saturdays.
SportSouth's coverage of SoCon basketball begins with a men's contest between Appalachian State and Davidson on Saturday, January 9 at 2 p.m. ET. The women's basketball schedule opens on Saturday, January 16 with game one of a SoCon doubleheader when Chattanooga hosts Western Carolina at noon ET. Game two features the Chattanooga men's squad and the College of Charleston at 2:30 p.m. ET following women's basketball action. See attached for the complete telecast schedule.
The men's schedule includes ten conference games and four contests pitting SoCon teams against ACC opponents, as well as both semifinal matchups from the 2010 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament at Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte. All 12 conference schools are represented on the telecast schedule.
SportSouth will televise both semifinal games and the championship from the 2010 Southern Conference Women's Basketball Tournament also in Charlotte. In addition, SportSouth will televise two regular-season contests as part of doubleheaders with SoCon men's games.
SoCon Men's Basketball Telecast Schedule
Nov. 13 UNC Greensboro at Duke 7:00 p.m. FOX Sports South
Nov. 20 Clemson at UNC Greensboro 7:00 p.m. FOX Sports South
Dec. 14 Georgia Tech at Chattanooga 7:00 p.m. FOX Sports South
Dec. 31 NC State at UNC Greensboro 7:00 p.m. FOX Sports South
Jan. 9 Appalachian State at Davidson 2:00 p.m. SportSouth
Jan. 16 College of Charleston at Chattanooga 2:30 p.m. SportSouth
Jan. 23 Davidson at Georgia Southern 2:00 p.m. SportSouth
Jan. 30 Furman at Wofford 3:00 p.m. SportSouth
Feb. 6 Samford at College of Charleston 4:00 p.m. SportSouth
Feb. 13 The Citadel at Elon 6:00 p.m. SportSouth
Feb. 20 UNC Greensboro at The Citadel 1:00 p.m. SportSouth
Feb. 27 Chattanooga at Western Carolina 3:00 p.m. SportSouth
March 7 Conference Tournament Semifinal 6:00 p.m. SportSouth
March 7 Conference Tournament Semifinal 8:30 p.m. SportSouth
SoCon Women's Basketball Telecast Schedule
Jan. 16 Western Carolina at Chattanooga Noon SportSouth
Feb. 6 Samford at College of Charleston 1:00 p.m. SportSouth
March 7 Conference Tournament Semifinal Noon SportSouth
March 7 Conference Tournament Semifinal 2:30 p.m. SportSouth
March 8 Conference Tournament Championship 5:00 p.m. SportSouth
ABOUT THE SOUTHERN CONFERENCE
The Southern Conference, in its 89th season of intercollegiate competition, is a national leader in emphasizing the development of the student-athlete and helping build lifelong leaders and role models. The conference has been on the forefront of innovation and originality in developing creative solutions to address issues facing intercollegiate athletics. From establishing the first conference basketball tournament (1921), tackling the issues of freshman eligibility (1922), developing women's championships (1984) to becoming the first conference to install the three-point goal in basketball (1980), the Southern Conference has been a pioneer. The Southern Conference is the nation's fifth-oldest NCAA Division I collegiate athletic association.
The conference currently consists of 12 members in five states throughout the southeast and sponsors 19 varsity sports and championships that produce participants for NCAA Division I Championships.
ABOUT SPORTSOUTH
The regional sports networks serving the Southeast - FOX Sports South, FOX Sports Carolinas and FOX Sports Tennessee - collectively reach more than 12.6 million cable and satellite television households in seven states in the Southeast and are the television home of the Atlanta Braves, Atlanta Hawks, Carolina Hurricanes, Charlotte Bobcats, Memphis Grizzlies and the Nashville Predators, as well as the Atlantic Coast Conference and the Southeastern Conference. SportSouth reaches more than 9.4 million homes in six Southeastern states and is the television home of the Atlanta Braves, Atlanta Thrashers and Southern Conference. SportSouth also offers expanded coverage of the University of South Carolina and University of Tennessee. Combined, the four networks produce more than 800 live local events each year.