University of Minnesota Athletics
Big Ten Network to Air Winter Championships
2/9/2011 12:00:00 AM | Men's Gymnastics
The Big Ten Men's and Women's Gymnastics Championships and the second day of the Big Ten Wrestling Championships will be carried live, and all seven championships will be produced in high definition.
Coverage begins at noon ET on Saturday, Feb. 26, with the Big Ten Women's Swimming and Diving Championships from Indiana University.
The Big Ten Men's Swimming and Diving Championships will air at 10 AM ET on Sunday, March 6, from Minneapolis. Later that afternoon, the second day of the Big Ten Wrestling Championships will be carried live at 4 PM ET from the campus of Northwestern University.
The Big Ten Men's and Women's Indoor Track and Field Championships will air back-to-back, starting at 2 PM ET on Saturday, March 12. The University of Illinois will host the men's event with the women's event taking place in West Lafayette, Ind., to be televised at 4 PM ET.
The Big Ten Network will televise the Big Ten Women's Gymnastics Championships live at 3 PM ET on Saturday, March 19, from the University of Minnesota. The network will have live coverage of the Big Ten Men's Gymnastics Championships on consecutive nights at 8 PM ET on Friday, April 1, and Saturday, April 2, from Champaign, Ill.
The Big Ten currently has 40 teams ranked in the top 25 nationally in Olympic sports programs for the winter season, including top-20 programs in men's gymnastics (No. 2 Illinois, No. 5 Penn State, No. 6 Michigan, No. 7 Minnesota, No. 8 Ohio State, No. 9 Iowa), women's gymnastics (No. 8 Michigan, No. 15 Ohio State, No. 16 Illinois, No. 17 Minnesota, No. 18 Penn State), men's swimming and diving (No. 11 Ohio State, No. T13 Indiana, No. T13 Michigan, No. 15 Minnesota), women's swimming and diving (No. 13 Minnesota, No. 14 Indiana, No. 15 Michigan, No. 17 Wisconsin, No. 18 Ohio State, No. 19 Purdue), men's indoor track and field (No. 5 Indiana, No. 8 Penn State, No. 16 Ohio State), women's indoor track and field (No. 19 Penn State, No. 20 Indiana) and wrestling (No. 2 Iowa, No. 3 Penn State, No. 5 Minnesota, No. 10 Michigan, No. 12 Wisconsin, No. 16 Northwestern, No. 20 Illinois).
The complete television schedule for the 2011 Big Ten Men's and Women's Gymnastics, Men's and Women's Swimming and Diving, Men's and Women's Indoor Track and Field and Wrestling Championships can be found at www.BigTenNetwork.com or www.bigten.org.-UM-
