DENVER - The championship match of the 2009 Western Athletic Conference women’s volleyball tournament will be televised live on ESPNU, it was announced today. The match will be played at 6:30 p.m. (PT) Wednesday, Nov. 25, at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas.
All-session tickets for the WAC Volleyball Tournament are $45 and can be purchased over the phone (888-234-2334) or online (www.orleansarena.com/event-calendar/wac-volleyball-tournament).
The WAC Volleyball Tournament is a single-elimination event with the top two seeds receiving first-round byes and the champion earning the conference’s automatic berth in the NCAA Tournament. The full schedule can be found below.
ESPNU launched on March 4, 2005. The 24-hour college sports television network features more than 550 live events annually, including college football, college basketball and Olympic sports from more than 25 Division I conferences, as well as premier high school content. The network also has a wide-ranging, long-term agreement with the NCAA for enhanced coverage of 22 NCAA Championships.
ESPNU also offers comprehensive studio programming, including live simulcasts of ESPN Radio’s The Herd with Colin Cowherd, and replays the best games of the week from ABC, ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPN Regional Television. The brand is also available in high definition on ESPNU HD and online at ESPNU.com. In addition, ESPNU Campus Connection, a multi-platform student-generated content initiative, was introduced in August 2007.
ESPNU will be available nationwide in more than 46 million households and has long-term carriage agreements with nine of the top 10 providers - Charter, Comcast, Cox, DirecTV (Channel 614), DISH Network (Channel 148), Mediacom, Time Warner Cable, Verizon FiOS TV and AT&T U-verse.
2009 WAC VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE
Monday, Nov. 23
No. 3 Seed vs. No. 6 Seed
5 p.m.
No. 4 Seed vs. No. 5 Seed
7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Nov 24
Winner Match 1 vs. No. 2 seed
5 p.m.
Winner Match 2 vs. No. 1 Seed
7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Nov. 25
Winner Match 3 vs. Winner Match 4 6:30
p.m. (ESPNU)