Seawolves will have 18 games on television, including three national broadcasts, and all 28 games on WUSB Radio.
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Stony Brook University Men’s Basketball will appear on television at least 18 times during the 2011-12 season, which shatters the school record, the program announced after America East released its full television package Wednesday. The Seawolves will have three nationally televised games, one on ESPNU and two on CBS Sports Network, which will compliment Stony Brook’s eight-game package with Cablevision’s Optimum Local.
In addition, all 28 regular season games and all potential postseason games will be broadcast on the radio at WUSB 90.1 FM and online at WUSB.fm.
“Having at least 18 games on television this season says a lot about how far our program has come,” head coach Steve Pikiell said. “We are honored to be representing Stony Brook University on so many platforms on local, regional and national levels. This will be our opportunity to reach millions of homes nationwide and show them how our student-athletes compete hard both athletically and academically.”
Stony Brook’s headlining broadcast will be its Jan. 27 home game against Boston University, which will air on ESPNU, which reaches 72 million homes across the country. The Seawolves will be looking to knock off the defending champion Terriers in a rematch of last season’s America East Championship final. The game will also be a part of Stony Brook’s Winterfest 2012.
Stony Brook also will have a pair of games broadcast through ESPN3, which is ESPN’s live multi-screen sports network, a 24/7 destination that delivers thousands of global sports events annually and accessible online via WatchESPN.com. It is available to approximately 70 million homes at no cost to fans who receive a high-speed Internet connection or video subscription from an affiliated provider. Stony Brook’s game at Boston University on Jan. 14 and at New Hampshire on Feb. 6 will both be carried by ESPN3.
The Seawolves hoops team will appear on CBS Sports Network for the first time ever with a pair of February games. The team will play at Vermont Feb. 12 and host Maine Feb. 26 in the regular season finale. CBS Sports Network, which televises over 2,000 hours of live programming a year, is available to 98 million homes nationwide.
Stony Brook will also have other regional television dates on the schedule. The team’s Dec. 11 game at Boston College will be broadcast in the New England region on NESN. The following week’s Dec. 17 appearance at Madison Square Garden vs. Rutgers in the MSG Holiday Festival will be televised on MSG at noon. The Feb. 4 game at Albany will be regionally televised by Time Warner Cable Sports.
The national and regional television package is supplemented by an eight-game local package through Cablevision’s Optimum Local, which was announced back in October. The Seawolves will appear on iO TV digital cable’s channel 118 in Nassau and Suffolk County beginning with the Dec. 7 game vs. Fairleigh Dickinson and will include all America East games with the exception of Jan. 27 and Feb. 26.
Stony Brook men’s basketball, under seventh-year head coach Steve Pikiell, is off to a 2-3 start to the 2011-12 season. The Seawolves have returned 12 letterwinners from last season’s team that advanced to the America East Championship final for the first time in program history. The Seawolves have been picked to finish either first or second in most media/coaches polls and will compete for their first-ever America East championship and NCAA Tournament bid.
