NCAA Women’s Championship Second Round: Two National Telecasts on ESPNU Tuesday
ESPN complete coverage of all 63 game of the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Championship Presented by Capital One – across ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN3 and ESPN FULL COURT – continues with second-round action on Monday and Tuesday, March 19 & 20.
Highlights:
- Monday’s primary games: No. 8 Kansas State vs. No. 1 Connecticut (7:05 p.m. ET) and No. 7 DePaul vs. No. 2 Tennessee (9:40 p.m.)
- Tuesday’s primary games: No. 8 California vs. No. 1 Notre Dame (7:20 p.m.) and No. 11 Kansas vs. No. 3 Delaware (9:40 p.m.)
- The entire nation will see two telecasts on ESPNU on Tuesday – No. 9 Florida vs. No. 1 Baylor (7:05 p.m.) and No. 7 Vanderbilt vs. No. 2 Duke (9:35 p.m.)
First and Second Rounds – Regionalization & Home Market Protection
- Regionalized/Home Market Protection – In the home markets of the competing teams, ESPN2 will televise the game of local interest. While constant updates from the other games will be provided, the networks will not switch to another game during live action, thereby establishing home market protection.
- Whip-Around Coverage – For the first and second rounds, multiple games (as many as four) will begin within one telecast window on ESPN2. During those windows, the network plans to “whip-around” (switch) to the best action from different games (except in the home markets of the competing teams). Select games will be available to a national audience on ESPNU.
During the first two rounds, ESPN2 presents 48 games within 12 telecast windows in a whip-around format with home market protection. ESPN FULL COURT, the pay-per-view package, offers complete games as a supplement. The final 15 games, beginning with the Regional Semifinals, will have national telecasts on ESPN or ESPN2.
Second Round Schedule (subject to change)
| Date | Time (ET) | Matchup/Commentators | Networks |
| Mon, Mar 19 | 7:05 p.m. 7:10 p.m. 7:15 p.m. 7:20 p.m. |
^No. 8 Kansas State vs. No. 1 Connecticut (Bridgeport, Conn.) Pam Ward & Rebecca LoboNo. 7 Louisville vs. No. 2 Maryland (College Park, Md.) Bob Wischusen & LaChina RobinsonNo. 8 West Virginia vs. No. 1 Stanford (Norfolk, Va.) Mark Jones & Mary Murphy No. 5 South Carolina vs. No. 4 Purdue (West Lafayette, Ind.) Brenda VanLengen & Stephen Bardo |
ESPN2 HD / ESPN3 |
| 9:35 p.m. 9:40 p.m. 9:40 p.m. 9:45 p.m. |
No. 6 Arkansas vs. No. 3 Texas A&M (Ames, Iowa) Clay Matvick & Krista Blunk^No. 7 DePaul vs. No. 2 Tennessee (Chicago) Jon Sciambi & Brooke WeisbrodNo. 11 Gonzaga vs. No. 3 Miami (College Station, Texas) Carter Blackburn & Tamika Raymond No. 7 Green Bay vs. No. 2 Kentucky (Spokane, Wash.) Dave Flemming & Sean Farnham |
ESPN2 HD / ESPN3 | |
| Tue, Mar 20 | 7:05 p.m. 7:10 p.m. 7:15 p.m. 7:20 p.m. |
*No. 9 Florida vs. No. 1 Baylor (Bowling Green, Ohio) Cara Capuano & Abby WanerNo. 13 Marist vs. No. 3 St. Bonaventure (Tallahassee, Fla.) Justin Kutcher & Nell Fortner No. 5 Georgetown vs. No. 4 Georgia Tech (Chapel Hill, N.C.) Beth Mowins & Stephanie White ^No. 8 California vs. No. 1 Notre Dame (Notre Dame, Ind.) Dave O’Brien & Doris Burke |
ESPN2 HD / ESPN3 |
| 9:30 p.m. | No. 5 LSU vs. No. 4 Penn State (Baton Rouge, La.) Bob Picozzi & Rosalyn Gold-Onwude^No. 11 Kansas vs. No. 3 Delaware (Little Rock, Ark.) Holly Rowe & Fran Fraschilla*No. 7 Vanderbilt vs. No. 2 Duke (Nashville, Tenn.) Dave Pasch & Debbie Antonelli No. 6 Oklahoma vs. No. 3 St. John’s (Norman, Okla.) |
ESPN2 HD / ESPN3 |
^ – Full national telecast – not part of Home Market Protected areas
* – Also available in its entirety on ESPNU and ESPNU HD
