IUWBB to be featured on Big Ten Women’s Basketball Week Oct. 24-28

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ROSEMONT, Ill. – With the 2016-17 women's college basketball season rapidly approaching, the Big Ten Conference has announced it will hold its inaugural Women's Basketball Week Oct. 24-28. The event live on the Big Ten Network replaces the traditional women's basketball media day as held in year's past.

Preseason coverage begins on Monday, Oct. 24, with the release of the Big Ten women's basketball preseason polls and all-conference teams, as chosen by the Big Ten coaches and a select media panel. Monday will also feature schedule graphics on Twitter @B1GWBBall.

From Tuesday-Thursday, Oct. 25-27, video interviews conducted by BTN with all 14 head coaches and select students from each school will be posted on various social media channels, including Twitter @B1GWBBall, Facebook (Big Ten Conference), Snapchat@BigTenConf and Instagram @BigTen. Here's a breakdown of which days the interviews from each conference school will be posted:

Tuesday, Oct. 25 – Michigan, Michigan State, Northwestern, Ohio State, Wisconsin
Wednesday, Oct. 26 – Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Purdue
Thursday, Oct. 27 – Illinois, Maryland, Penn State, Rutgers

On Friday, Oct. 28, from 10 a.m.-noon ET, the Big Ten will hold a preseason media teleconference with all 14 head coaches. Audio playback of that teleconference will be available on the women's basketball page at bigten.orglater that day. The full schedule and call-in information will be sent out to media members next week.

Following the women's basketball coaches' teleconference on Oct. 28, the Big Ten will distribute broadcast-quality one-on-one interview video content from each coach and one student per school for use on television and the Internet. In addition to interviews, these school-specific videos will include highlight footage from last season.

Along with Big Ten Women's Basketball Week, the conference is proud to work with BTN on the network's 2016-17 Women's Basketball Preview that will air live at 6 p.m. ET on Nov. 7. This 90-minute BTN special presentation, which also can be seen on BTN2Go, will feature interviews, highlights and analysis on all 14 Big Ten programs heading into the season.

Big Ten schools make their 2016-17 regular season debut on Nov. 11, with the 16-game conference slate tipping off Dec. 28. For the third consecutive season, every Big Ten game will be produced and distributed live on BTN, BTN Plus, an ESPN network or CBS Sports.

The regular season will conclude Feb. 26, leading into the 2017 Big Ten Women's Basketball Tournament, which is scheduled for March 1-5 at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.

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TY my friend. I guess the women's teams in the Big 10 are going their own way?

 

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BTN Men’s and Women’s Hoops Coverage begins with Media Day in DC

CHICAGO, Ill. – BTN is the college sports fans' home for Big Ten basketball beginning on Thursday with Big Ten Basketball Men's Media Day. Along with media day coverage, a full lineup of basketball games and nightly studio programming, BTN has Big Ten hoops covered all season long.

Thursday's men's basketball media day coverage starts with coaches press conferences from 9 a.m. ET to 11:30 a.m. ET, beginning with Nebraska's Tim Miles, B1G Basketball Media Day: 2016-2017 hosted by Dave Revsine and Jon Crispin, runs from 11:30 a.m. ET to 5 p.m. ET and will feature the coaches and student athletes from each of the 14 schools stopping by the set to discuss the upcoming season. All coverage from media day can also be streamed live on BTN2Go. In addition to the men's coverage, BTN will air a 90-minute women's basketball preview on Monday, Nov. 7 at 6 p.m. ET.

Indiana fans can look for the Hoosiers on BTN at the following times:

Coach Tom Crean—9:50 a.m. to 10 a.m.; 1:20 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
James Blackmon Jr., Thomas Bryant and Robert Johnson -- 1:30 p.m.to 1:40 p.m

New this year to BTN studio shows will be former Illinois star and all-time Fighting Illini points leader Deon Thomas. He will join an experienced group of analysts that include Shon Morris, the former Northwestern forward/center; Crispin, a Penn State standout; Stephen Bardo, the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year on the 1989 "Flyin' Illini" squad that reached the Final Four, and former Hawkeye and all-Big Ten performer Jess Settles. Bardo, Crispin, Settles and Morris will also lead a team of talented game analysts that also includes Dan Bonner and Bob Wenzel along with play-by-by announcers Kevin Kugler, Brian Anderson, Revsine, Brandon Gaudin, Cory Provus and Jeff Levering.

In addition to Lisa Byington, the Network's lead play-by-play voice for women's basketball, BTN also returns a strong cast of women's basketball analysts, including Christy Winters Scott, Vera Jones, Shelley Till and Brenda Van Lengen

The network's season-long coverage includes a number of studio shows which return in January:

· Big Ten Basketball & Beyond – National news from a Big Ten perspective, airing Sunday nights with Revsine, Bardo and the Sporting News' Mike DeCourcy.

· BTN Live – Roundtable discussion and analysis Monday through Friday with hosts Revsine, Pizzo and Mike Hall and rotating analysts including Bardo, Crispin and Morris.

· Big Ten Tip-Off Show – Airing on weekends throughout the season. Big Ten Tip-Off Show is presented by Auto-Owners Insurance.

· The Finale – Highlights and analysis following the conclusion of the last Big Ten basketball game Tuesday-Saturday.

· Women's Sports Report – Airing weekly with hosts Lisa Byington and Amina Smith.

This season, BTN will air more than 190 men's and women's basketball games. Throughout men's conference play, BTN will be home to 35 games involving Big Ten teams that finished in the top 25 of the USA Today sports men's basketball coaches poll, including Indiana, Maryland, Michigan State, Purdue and Wisconsin. BTN will also air at least 65 women's basketball games, and will televise 12 non-conference games featuring Big Ten women's basketball programs, including four contests in the 10th annual ACC/Big Ten Challenge.

About BTN: A joint venture between the Big Ten Conference and Fox Networks, BTN is the first internationally distributed network dedicated to covering one of the premier collegiate conferences in the country. With more than 1,000 events across all platforms, the 24/7 network is the ultimate destination for Big Ten fans and alumni across the country, allowing them to see their favorite teams, regardless of where they live. BTN2Go is the digital extension of the Big Ten Network, delivering live games and on-demand programming to Big Ten Network customers via the web, smartphones, and tablets. Events include football, men's and women's basketball games; dozens of Big Ten Olympic sports and championship events; studio shows; and classic games. Original programming highlights activities and accomplishments of some of the nation's finest universities. The groundbreaking Student U initiative provides real-world experience for students interested in careers in sports television. The network is in more than 60 million homes across the United States and Canada, including carriage by all the major video distributors, such as DIRECTV, DISH, Verizon FiOS, AT&T U-Verse, Charter Communications, Comcast Xfinity, Time Warner Cable, Cablevision, Cox Communications, Mediacom, RCN, WOW!, and approximately 300 additional video providers across North America. For additional information, go to btn.com.

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