Check out the 1999-2000 schedule
TUCSON, Ariz. (Sept. 22) - Tip-off times and Arizona's television appearances for the
1999-2000 men's
basketball season were released today and it is a schedule that sees each
of the UA's regular season and exhibition games televised live on either
national, regional or local television.
The Wildcats will make 19 appearances on Fox Sports Net or Fox
Sports Net
Arizona and will be on ESPN twice, ESPN2 twice, CBS once, ABC once and on
Tucson's KWBA-channel 58 five times. Should Arizona advance to the finals
of the Preseason NIT, they would make one more showing on ESPN2 and have
two more ESPN games.
Arizona's opener on Tuesday, Nov. 16, against Kansas State in the
Preseason NIT will tip-off at 8:30 p.m. and can be seen nationally on
ESPN2. Should Arizona win that game, it will host the winner of the
Hofstra/New Mexico State game in another ESPN2 game on Friday, Nov. 19,
beginning at 9:30 p.m. The tourney's semi-finals and final will be
broadcast from New York City on ESPN, Wednesday and Friday, Nov. 24 & 26.
Two other Wildcat games are set for an ESPN national broadcast
the UA's
road game at Texas on Saturday, Dec. 4, which begins at 8 p.m. CST (7 p.m.
MST) and the Tuesday, Dec. 7, outing in the Great Eight at Chicago versus
defending national champion Connecticut. That game will be held at the
United Center, tipping-off at 8:30 p.m. CST (7:30 p.m. MST) and is the
second game of a doubleheader, following Kansas vs. Michigan State.
On Saturday, Dec. 11, Arizona's hosts another 1999 Final Four
participant,
Michigan State. That contest will be televised by CBS and begins at noon
in
McKale Center.
The Cats' final ESPN2 game will be in the Las Vegas Shootout on
Saturday,
Dec. 18, when they play Nebraska at 6:30 p.m. PST (7:30 p.m. MST).
The first of the UA's 19 appearances on Fox Sports Net/Fox Sports
Net
Arizona will be the Wednesday, Dec. 1, home game versus Brigham Young,
which is set for a 9 p.m. start. Through the University of Arizona's new
television contract with Fox Sports Net Arizona, 10 games will be shown on
and produced exclusively by FSNA, while five others can be picked up
over-the-air on KWBA-channel 58 in Tucson.
Arizona's Pacific-10 Conference opener at California on Thursday,
Jan. 6,
will be carried on KWBA at 8 p.m. MST, while the second game of that
roadtrip, at Stanford on Jan. 8, will be on Fox Sports Net at 3 p.m. PST
(4
p.m. MST).
At the moment, the Arizona-Stanford game in Tucson on March 9, is
set for
8:30 p.m. and it is FSN's tentative selection for that day. The network
has
the opportunity to select another game 14 days in advance, which gives it
the flexibility to select a game that may be critical to determining the
Pacific-10 Conference champion.
