GREENWOOD, Ind. – The Great Midwest Athletic Conference announced that the basketball games between Cedarville and Trevecca Nazarene on Saturday, Feb. 6, 2016, would air on the American Sports Network as part of the NCAA Division II Game of the Week package.
The men’s and women’s games between the Yellow Jackets and Trojans in Nashville will represent the G-MAC’s first American Sports Network broadcast in any sport.
“The Great Midwest Athletic Conference is thankful that two member institutions will be highlighted this season in the American Sports Network’s Division II Basketball Showcase,” said G-MAC Commissioner Tom Daeger. “This contest will provide great attention to the talents of our student-athletes and offer exposure for conference rivals Trevecca Nazarene and Cedarville. It will be a great day of basketball in Nashville when these four teams square off on February 6.”
The women’s game is set for 2 p.m. EST and the men’s game will start after around 4 p.m. EST inside the Trojan Fieldhouse. Nashville is located in the Central Time Zone.
This will be Cedarville and Trevecca Nazarene’s second meeting of the regular season. Both teams are also scheduled to play each other on Saturday, Jan. 2, in Cedarville.
“First, we are honored to be the first G-MAC institution selected to host a Division II National Showcase broadcast,” said Trevecca Nazarene Director of Athletics Mark Elliott. “It is an opportunity to represent our community, Trevecca and Nashville, but we realize along with that comes responsibility.”
“Similar to when we made the move to NCAA Division II, we will lean on support from the greater Trevecca and Nashville community,” Elliott added. “We’ll look to our administration, marketing, faculty, Moore Maniacs, alums along with our great friends who are connected to Trevecca. To make this a great showcase, it will take the full support of the Trevecca and Nashville community. We are looking forward to the challenge.”
The Cedarville and Trevecca Nazarene women’s programs have battled it out and finished first and second in the G-MAC standings, respectively, in each of the past two years.
TNU has assembled back-to-back 14-2 league records in 2013-14 and 2014-15 while the Yellow Jackets marched to the conference’s first NCAA Championship Midwest Regional at-large selection in 2014-15 with a 27-4 overall record.
After beating then-No. 19 Alabama-Huntsville, the Trojans’ men made a name for themselves on a national level early this year. Cedarville’s men have won three straight at the time of release and are quickly developing rising young talent.
Additional information will be made available at a later time about which markets will carry the games. For those outside the regional market, both games will also be streamed live on NCAA.com.
The American Sports Network has reached agreements to distribute its broadcasts to regional cable networks that will make it available in 94 million of the nation’s 113 million TV homes.
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