News Nuggets, 10.05.04
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Charter Communications and the
Saint Louis University department of athletics last week announced their
live telecast schedule for the Billikens' basketball tea.
The Charter Communications
Information Network (CCIN) package will feature nine road games and six home
dates.
"Charter Communications is an
outstanding partner in bringing Billiken basketball to our fans," said SLU
athletics Cheryl L. Levick in a statement. "Combining Charter's telecasts
with our Conference USA syndication package, we're bringing 17 regular
season games into the metropolitan St. Louis market."
The schedule begins with the
Billikens hosting Hawaii on Sat., Dec. 4. Except for the Paradise Jam in the
Virgin Islands in November, all of the Billikens' road contests will be
televised.
CCIN will produce the Gonzaga,
Southern Illinois, Charlotte, Southern Miss, East Carolina, Houston, USF and
Louisville games. The network will pick up ESPN Regional's production of the
Iowa contest.
ESPN Plus will televise the
games at DePaul and Marquette as part of C-USA's syndication package. ESPN
Plus will also televise the first three rounds of the league tournament in
Memphis.
Play-by-play announcer Frank
Cusumano enters his fourth season describing the action for CCIN. Former
Billikens Scott Highmark and Joe Wiley supply the analysis.
Charter Communications, which
reaches more than 500,000 households in the St. Louis metropolitan area,
will telecast the games on CCIN, a channel received by all its customers
with basic or expanded basic programming service.
SAINT LOUIS BASKETBALL LIVE
BROADCAST SCHEDULE
Sat., Dec. 4 vs. Hawaii
Sat., Dec. 11 at Gonzaga
Sat., Dec. 18 vs. Dayton
Tue., Dec. 21 at Southern Illinois
Fri., Dec. 31 at Iowa
Sat., Jan. 8 vs. Cincinnati
Sat., Jan. 15 at Charlotte
Wed., Jan. 19 at Southern Miss
Wed., Jan. 26 at East Carolina
Sat., Jan. 29 vs. Marquette
Wed., Feb. 2 at Houston
Wed., Feb. 9 at USF
Sat., Feb. 12 vs. Charlotte
Sun., Feb. 20 at Louisville
Sat., Feb. 26 at DePaul ESPN+
Wed., Mar. 2 vs. Memphis
Sat., Mar. 5 at Marquette ESPN+
Wed., Mar. 9 C-USA Tournament
Compiled from an SLU
athletics report.
Loss yanks West Virginia back down to earth
BLACKSBURG His team's national title
hopes dashed, West Virginia coach Rich Rodriguez searched for a positive to
take out of the Mountaineers' loss to middling Virginia Tech.
``We're disappointed and it hurts to
lose but this is a good ballclub at their place and we didn't play very well
and we lost,'' Rodriguez said. ``The most important goal is to always win
the Big East and we haven't even started Big East play yet so everything is
still out in front of us.''
Well, not everything.
Going into last Saturday's matchup with
former Big East conference foe Virginia Tech, the Mountaineers (4-1) were
ranked sixth and starting to entertain thoughts of ending the season
undefeated.
With only unranked opponents most
from their lightly regarded conference remaining on the schedule, the
possibility of a perfect regular season didn't seem farfetched.
Virginia Tech put a decisive end to
those hopes with a 19-13 win.
``People can say we were pretenders or
whatever,'' West Virginia quarterback Rasheed Marshall said. ``We know we
have a good team.''
Just not one that will be in the mix
for the national title.
The win ended WVU's streak of 11
victories in the regular season. The last time the No. 16 Mountaineers had
dropped a regular-season game was a 22-20 loss to Miami on Oct. 2, 2003.
The loss also fueled thoughts that the
Big East is a subpar football conference following the departure of the
Hokies and No. 4 Miami to the Atlantic Coast Conference this offseason.
And it provided some payback for
Virginia Tech.
The Hokies had dropped two straight to
the Mountaineers, including a 28-7 loss last season that effectively ended
their national title aspirations.
``We needed this,'' said Tech running
back Mike Imoh, who finished with 115 yards rushing. ``They got us two years
in a row, and it was important that we came back and bounced back strong.''
Both teams seemed to have trouble
putting aside their former conference rivalry in the last scheduled game
between them in Blacksburg. The Hokies and the Mountaineers committed
several personal fouls and were penalized a total of 25 times for 251 yards.
The teams are scheduled to meet only
once more next season at Morgantown.
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