University of Minnesota Athletics
Gophers-Cornell Game Set For ESPN360
12/3/2008 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
The Minnesota basketball team’s showdown with Cornell on Saturday, Dec. 6, will be webcast exclusively on ESPN360.com, ESPN's signature broadband sports TV network.
The game is available free of charge to any student on the University of Minnesota campus. All computers accessing the Internet via an official University of Minnesota Internet Protocol (IP) address may view the game live simply by visiting www.ESPN360.com and logging on to the service just prior to the 1 p.m. (CDT) tipoff.
Gopher fans throughout United States who receive their high-speed Internet service through an ESPN-affiliated provider will also be able to watch the webcast of the game free of charge. A completed list of affiliated Internet service providers is available at http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/espn360/affList.
Saturday’s matchup with Cornell is the only time this season that the Minnesota men’s basketball team will be webcast exclusively on ESPN360.com as part of the Big Ten’s television rights agreement.
ESPN360.com is a 24/7 broadband sports network, that delivers more than 3,000 live global sports events annually and has tripled its residential distribution in the past 20 months, making the service available in 24 million households nationwide via more than 40 Internet service providers around the country, including Mediacom in the Twin Cities region.
