Starting tomorrow November 6th, XM Satellite Radio will tip off the 2007-2008 college basketball season with over 1,000 games from all six power conferences.
With the ACC, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-10, and SEC under its belt, XM will host their college basketball games on about 17 sports play-by-play channels.
XM is also home to "Basketball and Beyond with Coach K," the weekly radio show hosted by Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski. His show airs Wednesdays at 9am ET on XM Sports Nation (ch 144), with encores at various times through the week. Coach K and sportscaster Dave Sims talk college basketball and discuss the coach's personal perspective on principles for life on and off the court.
XM covers 16 of the top 25 teams in the pre-season ESPN/USA Today college basketball poll which includes the top-ranked North Carolina. In March, XM will be the exclusive satellite radio network for the conference basketball tournaments for each of the six power conferences.
Tomorrow, Kentucky will host Central Arkansas at Rupp Arena in Lexington. The game will serve as XM's debut college basketball broadcast and will air on XM channel 199 at 7pm ET/4pm PT.
A weekly schedule of college basketball games on XM will be available at xmradio.com/collegesports.
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