Northwestern University Athletics
Big Ten Network to Air Bowl Preview Special Tonight
12/17/2009 12:00:00 AM | General
Dec. 17, 2009
CHICAGO -- Northwestern's upcoming appearance in the 2010 Outback Bowl will be one of seven Big Ten mathcups featured in the Big Ten Bowl Preview Special at 8 p.m. CT on Thursday night on the Big Ten Network. Host Dave Revsine will be joined in studio by Gerry DiNardo, Howard Griffith and Chris Martin. The analysts will preview every Big Ten bowl game, discuss the keys to the game and make their bowl predictions during the one-hour show.
The Big Ten Network will provide studio and on-site coverage for the conference's New Year's Day bowl games. Dave Revsine, Gerry DiNardo and Howard Griffith will host pre-game, post-game and late post-game show from Chicago. Chris Martin will join the 'Cats in Tampa, while Rick Pizzo and Glen Mason will cover Ohio State in the Rose Bowl from Pasadena. Anthony Herron will follow Penn State in the Capital One Bowl in Orlando. In addition, Herron will be joined by Brent Stover to cover Iowa in the FedEx Orange Bowl from Miami.
The network also will report on results from the conference's other games, Michigan State in the Alamo Bowl vs. Texas Tech, Minnesota in the Insight Bowl vs. Iowa State and Wisconsin vs. Miami in the Champs Sports bowl.
About the Big Ten Network: The Big Ten Network is the first internationally distributed network dedicated to covering one of the premier collegiate conferences in the country. With approximately 350 live events, and nearly all of them in HD, the network is the ultimate destination for Big Ten fans and alumni across the country, allowing them to see their favorite teams, regardless of where they live. The network operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, showcasing a wide array of classic-to-current sports and televising more Olympic sporting events and women's sports than has ever been aired on any other network. Original programming highlights activities and accomplishments of some of the nation's finest universities. Each year, the network offers between 35 and 40 football games, 105 regular season men's basketball games; 55 women's basketball games; dozens of Big Ten Championship events; studio shows; coaches' shows; and classic games. Available to all cable and satellite providers nationwide and in Canada, the network currently has agreements with more than 300 affiliates, including AT&T U-Verse, Atlantic Broadband, Cablevision, Charter, Comcast, Cox (Cleveland, Arizona, Arkansas, Kansas, Omaha), DirecTV, DISH Network, Insight, Mediacom, Rogers Cable (Canada), Shaw Cable and Shaw Direct (Canada), Time Warner Cable and Verizon FiOS. For updated information on the Big Ten Network, go to www.BigTenNetwork.com.
