Daemen Games Selected As Part Of NCAA Division II Basketball Showcase

11/20/2019 2:00:00 PM

AMHERST, N.Y. - The men's and women's basketball doubleheader between Daemen College and St. Thomas Aquinas College at Lumsden Gymnasium on Friday, Feb. 14 has been selected to be part of the NCAA Division II Basketball Showcase Games for the 2019-20 season. In an agreement between the two institutions, the NCAA and its media partner, Niles Media Group, both games that evening will be broadcast live on the NCAA Facebook and Twitter pages, as well as on the East Coast Conference Network.

The NCAA announced today that 28 regular season men's and women's basketball games will be broadcast as part of an effort to promote the division on several platforms throughout the season. An additional eight games as part of four flex doubleheaders, including the Daemen-St. Thomas Aquinas contests, are on the schedule for February. Those games are expected to highlight premier and pivotal matchups toward the end of the regular season.

Now in its second year, the division's media agreement features two distribution models for basketball and football. For basketball, 18 games will stream exclusively on ESPN3, available on espn.com and the ESPN App.

Eighteen additional games - including the Daemen-St. Thomas Aquinas doubleheader - are part of the hybrid model, and they have the flexibility to be distributed on TV and online. The division will work with the TV partners of participating conferences and schools on the opportunity to air games on TV. These games also will be distributed online through NCAA social media accounts, and could be distributed through conference and school digital networks.

"The basketball season is off to an exciting start," said Terri Steeb Gronau, vice president of Division II. "We're looking forward to another great Division II Basketball Showcase that highlights our student-athletes' achievements on and off the court. Before we know it, we'll be celebrating the women's Elite Eight in Birmingham and the men's national championship game in Atlanta as part of combined championships with Divisions I and III."

The current showcase schedule, which spans November through February, features 14 of the 23 basketball-sponsoring conferences in Division II and was created from a pool of conference nominations.

The basketball showcase begins Nov. 24 with a doubleheader between East Stroudsburg and Indiana (Pennsylvania) in the hybrid model. The women's game begins at 1:05 p.m. Eastern time, with the men's game scheduled to start at 3:05 p.m. The ESPN3 portion of the schedule opens Dec. 14 with Southern Nazarene hosting Southeastern Oklahoma State in a doubleheader, starting with the women's game at 2:05 p.m. Eastern time.

Daemen is being featured in the NCAA Division II Basketball Showcase for the second consecutive year. The Wildcats' doubleheader on Dec. 5, 2018 at Roberts Wesleyan College was chosen last season.

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