Westwood One to Air Ivy League Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournaments
PRINCETON, N.J. – The Ivy League and Westwood One have agreed to broadcast the inaugural Ivy League Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournaments on March 11 and 12 at The Palestra in Philadelphia through the League's partnership with JMI Sports. Westwood One is the exclusive network radio partner of the NCAA Tournament.
Westwood One will have coverage of all three games of the men’s tournament, including both semifinals on Saturday at 1:30 pm ET and 4 p.m. ET and Sunday’s championship game at 12 p.m. ET. Scott Graham and Kelly Tripucka will call all the action. Additionally, the network will broadcast Sunday’s Women’s championship game, which is set for 4 p.m. ET.
Westwood One will also broadcast tonight’s Ivy League showdown from New Haven, Connecticut between league-leading Princeton and defending champion Yale. Scott Graham and Clark Kellogg will have the call beginning at 7:45 p.m. ET.
All of the Ivy League broadcasts on Westwood One can be heard on radio stations nationwide, as well as on SiriusXM and the TuneIn mobile app. The games will also be streamed on westwoodonesports.com and the Ivy League Digital Network.
Westwood One Sports is home to some of the most exciting sports broadcasts on radio. In addition to NCAA Basketball, including the NCAA Men’s and Women’s Tournaments and the Final Four; it is also the exclusive provider of the Frozen Four®, the Men’s Lacrosse Championship, and the Men's and Women's College World Series®. In addition, Westwood One has been the exclusive network radio partner to the NFL since 1987. Its other properties include the Masters, the Olympics, the Triple Crown, the NHL and Stanley Cup Final, and more.
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ABOUT THE IVY LEAGUE
The Ivy League is the most diverse intercollegiate conference in the country with more than 8,000 student-athletes competing each year. Sponsoring conference championships in 33 men's and women's sports and averaging more than 35 varsity teams at each school, the Ivy League provides more intercollegiate athletic opportunities per school than any other conference in the country. All eight Ivy schools are among the top 20 of NCAA Division I schools in number of sports offered for both men and women and enjoy regular competitive success at the highest championship levels of NCAA Division I athletics.
The League’s schools -- Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton and Yale -- share a rich history of success and influence in college athletics, dating back to the origins of intercollegiate competition. Ivy League institutions have won 287 team national championships and 579 individual national championships since intercollegiate competition began. The Ivy League conference was formally established in 1954, based on the mutual agreement that intercollegiate athletics competition should be "kept in harmony with the essential educational purposes of the institution." For more information, please visit www.ivyleaguesports.com.