Former Ducks: Ernie Kent joins Pac-12 Networks
SAN FRANCISCO, October 30, 2012 — Pac-12 Networks gets set to hit the hard court with its first season of men’s basketball game coverage that features 150 exciting live contests and dynamic analysis from legendary Pac-12 names. Live game action begins Friday, November 9 at 4:00 PM PT with five nonconference matchups and concludes with the first eight games of the Pac-12 Men’s Basketball tournament from its new home at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, NV.
For its coverage, Pac-12 Networks has assembled a talented group of voices to provide play-by-play and analysis for both live games and studio shows. Led by UCLA and NBA legend Bill Walton, Pac-12 Networks men’s broadcast team also includes:
Analyst Team:
· Don MacLean
Former UCLA Bruin standout and all-time Pac-12 scoring leader
· Ernie Kent
Former University of Oregon head coach and Pac-10 Coach of the Year (2002)
· Lenny Wilkens
Hall of Fame player and coach; NBA Champion (1979) and Coach of the Year (1994)
· Detlef Schrempf
Former Washington Huskies forward and three-time NBA All-Star
· Brevin Knight
Former Stanford All-American and 12-year NBA veteran
· Lamar Hurd
Former Oregon State guard
· Dan Belluomini
Former University of San Francisco head men’s basketball coach
· Joe Cravens
Former University of Utah men’s basketball coach
· Matt Muehlebach
Former Arizona Wildcats guard
· Chris Spatola
Former Army guard and Director of Basketball Operations for Duke men’s basketball
Play-by-play Team:
· Kevin Calabro
Pac-12 Networks football play-by-play voice; Seattle radio personality and former voice of the Seattle Supersonics
· Ted Robinson
Pac-12 Networks football announcer; Two-time Emmy winner and current radio voice of the San Francisco 49ers
· Roxy Bernstein
Voice of Cal men’s basketball and former San Francisco radio personality
· JB Long
Sports reporter and host with former assignments covering the MLB and Summer Olympics
· Rich Cellini
Seasoned play-by-play voice with previous assignments at CBS Sports Network, FOX Sports and ABC Sports covering college football and the NFL
· Mark Rogondino
Pac-12 Networks lead men’s soccer announcer and current play-by-play voice for the Los Angeles Galaxy
· Paul Sunderland
Southern California sports personality covering the Lakers for FOX Sports Net; Also covering beach volleyball and the NBA for FSN and NBC Sports
· Jim Watson
Multi-sport announcer with over 20 years of broadcasting experience covering the Pac-12 and professional sports for NBC, FOX Sports, ESPN3 and Universal Sports
"With the incredible amount of talent Pac-12 men’s basketball is bringing to the court this season, there could not be a better time for Pac-12 Networks to showcase the tradition and strength of the conference’s 12 teams with an unprecedented amount of live coverage,” said Lydia Murphy-Stephans, Pac-12 Networks Executive Vice President and General Manager. “We’re thrilled to host the conference coaches and players in our new home to officially kick off the season, as well as introduce our all-star talent roster that includes Hall of Famers, Emmy winners and some of the best former players in the conference."
Several of Pac-12 Networks’ men’s basketball on-air team will be on hand for Media Day, being held at Pac-12 Studios Thursday, November 1. Pac-12.com will offer live streaming of all the action including both player and coaches press conferences, while at 9:00 PM PT, MacLean, Kent and host Mike Yam put a bow on all the day’s events on the Pac-12 Media Day Special on Pac-12 Networks.
The Pac-12 Networks basketball schedule begins Friday, November 9 and over that first weekend will feature home openers for 11 Pac-12 teams. The unprecedented amount of exposure means that each school will be featured at least 11 times during the season and guarantees that every Pac-12 home game will be televised for the first time in Conference history. The schedule boasts 92 nonconference battles, including 11 contests featuring 2012 NCAA tournament-qualifying opponents. The conference season opens the first week in January with Utah at Arizona State, Stanford at UCLA, Utah at Arizona and Colorado at Arizona State.
With UCLA and Arizona bringing in top rated recruiting classes and several prominent starters returning from all 12 schools, including Allen Crabbe (California), Solomon Hill (Arizona), Brock Motum (Washington State) and Andre Roberson (Colorado), the race for the Pac-12 title figures to come down to the wire, as it did a year ago. The Pac-12 featured seven teams with 20-or-more wins and seven others with 10-or-more conference wins. Washington edged Cal for the regular season title before Colorado claimed the Pac-12 Tournament title in dramatic fashion.
Men’s hoops joins Pac-12 women’s basketball as the first programs to have postseason games televised live on Pac-12 Networks with the first eight games of the 2013 Pac-12 Men’s Basketball Tournament from its new home in Las Vegas, NV March 13-15. The Pac-12 Networks schedule also includes special neutral site regular season matchups with bay area teams San Francisco and Stanford squaring off at Oracle Arena in Oakland, CA November 9 at 8:00 PM PT, Buffalo vs. Washington State at Seattle’s Key Arena December 21 at 7:30 PM PT and Idaho State in a 3:00 PM PT contest versus the Cougars December 29 at the Toyota Center in Kennewick, WA.
2012 Pac-12 Networks Men’s Basketball Televised Schedule
Date Time (PT) Matchup
Nov. 9 4:00 PM Wofford vs. Colorado
Nov. 9 6:00 PM Niagara vs. Oregon State
Nov. 9 6:00 PM Willamette vs. Utah
Nov. 9 8:00 PM Coppin State vs. USC
Nov. 9 8:00 PM San Francisco vs. Stanford
Nov. 10 4:30 PM Northern Arizona vs. Oregon
Nov. 10 4:30 PM Central Arkansas vs. Arizona State
Nov. 10 4:30 PM Eastern Washington vs. Washington State
Nov. 11 3:00 PM Charleston Southern vs. Arizona
Nov. 11 5:00 PM Loyola (MD) vs. Washington
Nov. 11 7:00 PM Cal-State Bakersfield vs. California
Nov. 12 6:30 PM Portland State vs. Oregon
Nov. 12 8:30 PM Cal State Fullerton vs. Stanford
Nov. 13 6:30 PM Long Beach State vs. USC
Nov. 13 6:30 PM Pepperdine vs. California
Nov. 13 6:30 PM Albany vs. Washington
Nov. 13 8:30 PM UC Irvine vs. UCLA
Nov. 14 7:00 PM Utah Valley vs. Washington State
Nov. 15 6:00 PM Alcorn State vs. Stanford
Nov. 15 8:00 PM James Madison vs. UCLA
Nov. 16 6:00 PM Sacramento State vs. Utah
Nov. 16 8:00 PM Vanderbilt vs. Oregon
Nov. 18 12:00 PM Florida A&M vs. Arizona State
Nov. 18 6:00 PM Belmont vs. Stanford
Nov. 19 6:00 PM Long Beach State vs. Arizona
Nov. 19 8:00 PM Jacksonville State vs. Oregon
Nov. 20 6:00 PM Cornell vs. Arizona State
Nov. 21 6:00 PM Idaho State vs. Utah
Nov. 23 4:00 PM Central Michigan vs. Utah
Nov. 24 TBD Wright State vs. Utah
Nov. 24 TBD Arkansas-Pine Bluff vs. Washington State
Nov. 24 4:30 PM Colorado State vs. Washington
Nov. 25 3:00 PM Montana State vs. Oregon State
Nov. 25 5:00 PM Air Force vs. Colorado
Nov. 25 7:00 PM Cal Poly vs. UCLA
Nov. 27 6:30 PM Texas Southern vs. Colorado
Nov. 28 5:00 PM Arkansas-Pine Bluff vs. Arizona State
Nov. 28 7:00 PM Idaho vs. Washington State
Nov. 28 7:00 PM Northern Arizona vs. Arizona
Nov. 28 7:00 PM Seattle vs. Stanford
Nov. 28 9:00 PM Saint Louis vs. Washington
Nov. 28 9:00 PM Cal State Northridge vs. UCLA
Nov. 29 7:00 PM UT San Antonio vs. Oregon
Dec. 1 3:30 PM Arkansas-Pine Bluff vs. Oregon
Dec. 1 5:30 PM Sacramento State vs. Arizona State
Dec. 1 7:30 PM Portland vs. Washington State
Dec. 2 2:00 PM Denver vs. Stanford
Dec. 2 4:00 PM Cal State Fullerton vs. Washington
Dec. 4 6:30 PM Southern Mississippi vs. Arizona
Dec. 5 5:30 PM Boise State vs. Utah
Dec. 5 5:30 PM Hartford vs. Arizona State
Dec. 5 7:30 PM Colorado State vs. Colorado
Dec. 8 11:00 AM Cal State Northridge vs. Arizona State
Dec. 8 1:00 PM Grambling State vs. Oregon State
Dec. 8 3:00 PM Idaho State vs. Oregon
Dec. 8 5:00 PM Nevada vs. Washington
Dec. 8 7:30 PM Minnesota vs. USC
Dec. 9 4:00 PM Fresno State vs. Washington State
Dec. 12 6:00 PM DePaul vs. Arizona State
Dec. 13 7:00 PM Jackson State vs. Washington State
Dec. 15 12:00 PM Dartmouth vs. Arizona State
Dec. 15 2:00 PM UC Davis vs. Stanford
Dec. 15 4:00 PM UC Riverside vs. USC
Dec. 15 4:00 PM Jackson State vs. Washington
Dec. 15 6:00 PM Prairie View A&M vs. UCLA
Dec. 15 8:00 PM Creighton vs. California
Dec. 16 4:00 PM Chicago State vs. Oregon State
Dec. 18 6:00 PM Oral Roberts vs. Arizona
Dec. 18 6:00 PM Southern Methodist vs. Utah
Dec. 18 8:00 PM UC Santa Barbara vs. California
Dec. 18 8:00 PM Long Beach State vs. UCLA
Dec. 19 7:00 PM Howard vs. Oregon State
Dec. 20 6:00 PM Cal Poly vs. Washington
Dec. 20 8:00 PM UC Irvine vs. USC
Dec. 21 5:30 PM Northern Arizona vs. Colorado
Dec. 21 7:30 PM Cal State Northridge vs. Utah
Dec. 21 7:30 PM Buffalo vs. Washington State
Dec. 22 12:00 PM Houston Baptist vs. Oregon
Dec. 22 2:00 PM Prairie View A&M vs. California
Dec. 22 4:00 PM Northern Illinois vs. Washington
Dec. 22 6:00 PM San Diego vs. Oregon State
Dec. 22 8:00 PM Fresno State vs. UCLA
Dec. 28 6:30 PM College of Idaho vs. Utah
Dec. 29 11:00 AM Coppin State vs. Arizona State
Dec. 29 11:00 AM Hartford vs. Colorado
Dec. 29 1:00 PM Towson vs. Oregon State
Dec. 29 3:00 PM Idaho State vs. Washington State
Dec. 29 5:00 PM Harvard vs. California
Dec. 29 7:30 PM Lafayette vs. Stanford
Dec. 30 4:00 PM Dayton vs. USC
Dec. 31 2:00 PM Texas-Pan American vs. Oregon State
Dec.31 4:00 PM Nevada vs. Oregon
Jan. 2 7:00 PM Utah vs. Arizona State
Jan. 5 12:00 PM Stanford vs. UCLA
Jan. 5 2:00 PM Utah vs. Arizona
Jan. 6 5:00 PM Colorado vs. Arizona State
Jan. 9 7:00 PM Washington State vs. Stanford
Jan. 10 6:30 PM UCLA vs. Utah
Jan. 10 8:30 PM Arizona State vs. Oregon State
Jan. 12 11:00 AM UCLA vs. Colorado
Jan. 12 1:00 PM Washington State vs. California
Jan. 12 3:00 PM USC vs. Utah
Jan. 13 6:00 PM Arizona State vs. Oregon
Jan. 16 6:30 PM Utah vs. Washington State
Jan. 16 8:30 PM Colorado vs. Washington
Jan. 19 5:00 PM Oregon State vs. USC
Jan. 19 7:00 PM Colorado vs. Washington State
Jan. 23 6:30 PM Washington State vs. Oregon
Jan. 23 8:30 PM Washington vs. Oregon State
Jan. 24 5:30 PM California vs. Utah
Jan. 24 7:30 PM USC vs. Arizona State
Jan. 26 2:00 PM Washington State vs. Oregon State
Jan. 26 4:00 PM Washington vs. Oregon
Jan. 27 6:00 PM Stanford vs. Utah
Jan. 30 7:00 PM USC vs. UCLA
Jan. 31 8:00 PM Arizona State vs. Washington State
Feb. 2 7:00 PM Arizona vs. Washington State
Feb. 3 12:00 PM Oregon State vs. Stanford
Feb. 6 7:00 PM Utah vs. Oregon State
Feb. 7 6:30 PM California vs. Arizona State
Feb. 7 8:30 PM Washington State vs. USC
Feb. 9 5:00 PM Utah vs. Oregon
Feb. 9 7:00 PM Washington State vs. UCLA
Feb. 10 4:00 PM California vs. Arizona
Feb. 10 6:00 PM Colorado vs. Oregon State
Feb. 13 5:00 PM Arizona State vs. Utah
Feb. 13 7:00 PM Oregon State vs. Washington State
Feb. 14 7:00 PM Arizona vs. Colorado
Feb. 16 4:00 PM Oregon vs. Washington State
Feb. 17 12:00 PM Arizona vs. Utah
Feb. 20 7:00 PM Washington State vs. Arizona State
Feb. 21 7:00 PM Utah vs. Colorado
Feb. 23 3:00 PM California vs. Oregon State
Feb. 23 5:00 PM Stanford vs. Oregon
Feb. 27 6:30 PM Arizona vs. USC
Feb. 27 8:30 PM Arizona State vs. UCLA
Mar. 3 2:00 PM Utah vs. Stanford
Mar. 6 6:30 PM UCLA vs. Washington State
Mar. 6 8:30 PM USC vs. Washington
Mar. 9 11:30 AM Oregon vs. Utah
Mar. 9 1:30 PM Oregon State vs. Colorado
Mar. 9 3:30 PM USC vs. Washington State
Mar. 13 12:00 PM Pac-12 Tournament – Game 1
Mar. 13 2:30 PM Pac-12 Tournament – Game 2
Mar. 13 6:00 PM Pac-12 Tournament – Game 3
Mar. 13 8:30 PM Pac-12 Tournament – Game 4
Mar. 14 12:00 PM Pac-12 Tournament – Quarterfinal 1
Mar. 14 2:30 PM Pac-12 Tournament – Quarterfinal 2
Mar. 14 6:00 PM Pac-12 Tournament – Quarterfinal 3
Mar. 15 6:00 PM Pac-12 Tournament – Semifinal 1
