College Sports Television to Broadcast Saturday's Game Nationally - Huskers.com - Nebraska Athletics Official Web Site

NEW YORK, May 14, 2003 -- College Sports Television (CSTV) the first 24-hour college sports network, will present #16 Baylor at #8 Nebraska Big 12 baseball live Saturday, May 17, at 2 p.m. CT, from Hawks Field in Lincoln, Nebraska. The contest, during the final weekend of regular season play, will help determine pairings for the Big 12 baseball tournament May 21-25 in Oklahoma City and also carries College World Series implications.

Nebraska owns first place in the Big 12 with an 18-6 record and is 40-13 overall. Senior first baseman Matt Hopper leads Nebraska with 17 home runs this season and has hit a Big 12-record 59 career homers. He also paces the team with a .384 batting average, 57 RBI and a .705 slugging percentage. Nebraska defeated Creighton 9-5 Tuesday evening in front of more than 11,000 in Omaha.

Baylor (35-17 overall, 14-10 Big 12) sits in fourth place in the Big 12 and is currently riding an eight-game win streak, courtesy of a 9-5 home win over Southwest Texas Tuesday evening. Junior outfielder David Murphy is batting a league-leading .426, tops the Big 12 in hits with 101, and boasts a 22-game hit streak. Teammate Michael Griffin, a sophomore pitcher/outfielder/third baseman, leads the league in RBI (67) and triples (7).

Saturday's game, which is being carried state-wide on Nebraska Educational Television, marks the third regular-season national telecast of the 2003 season, as NU's previous games against Oklahoma (March 29) and Texas (April 19) were also carried on national cable.

CSTV is available on DirecTV on channel 610. For information on how to receive the network, log on to www.cstv.com

College Sports Television has long-term programming and marketing agreements with 27 Division I athletic conferences, including the Atlantic 10, Big East, Big Sky, Big Ten, Big 12, Big West, Conference USA, Ivy League, Mountain West, Sun Belt, WAC and West Coast. The network will televise live regular season and championship events across a broad spectrum of men's and women's college sports, including football, basketball, baseball, soccer, ice hockey and lacrosse. Dedicated to offering the widest variety of college athletics, College Sports Television will provide the most in-depth sports coverage of 1,200 universities and colleges involving 360,000 student-athletes across all of the major conferences at every level of college sports.

College Sports Television was co-founded by President/CEO Brian Bedol, Chairman Stephen Greenberg and Executive Vice President Chris Bevilacqua. Bedol and Greenberg co-founded Classic Sports Network, which they sold to ESPN and which is now ESPN Classic. Bevilacqua is a former senior executive with Nike Inc., where he headed the company