Canisius Announces 2019-20 Basketball Broadcast Schedule

The Canisius athletic department, in conjunction with ESPN and the MAAC Office, announced Monday that 25 men's and women's basketball home games will be produced by the College's Golden Griffin Broadcast Network for distribution on ESPN3 and ESPN+.

Of Canisius' 25 home basketball games that will be shown live on the ESPN family of networks, 20 will air exclusively on ESPN+. For more information on the ESPN+ platform, CLICK HERE.

Additionally, Canisius announced that all 20 MAAC road dates (10 for men and 10 for women) will also be available on ESPN3 or ESPN+, as the 2019-20 season marks first full year where all 11 MAAC schools will produce contest for ESPN. Nineteen of the Griffs' 20 road games will be broadcast on ESPN3, including all 10 women's road games in league play.

The Canisius women's basketball team will have three home games broadcast on ESPN3, starting with its 2019-20 home opener against long-time rival St. Bonaventure (Nov. 17). Tipoff at the Koessler Athletic Center for that game is set for 6 p.m. The Griffs open the year on ESPN3 Tuesday, when the Blue and Gold travel to play at Youngstown State to start the 2019-20 campaign.

The men's team will appear on an ESPN network 27 times this season, with 12 of those games being home games. In addition to those 12 home dates, the Griffs will appear on ESPN3, ESPN+ or ACC Network Extra 15 times on the road. Three of the men's basketball team's league dates (Feb. 7 at Rider, Feb. 14 at versus Monmouth and Feb. 21 at Quinnipiac) have been predetermined as potential games that can be flexed as part of the MAAC's broadcast agreement with ESPN. Per league rules, the network announcement for those three "Wild Card" games will be made 14 days in advance of tipoff.

The 2019-20 academic year marks the fifth season of production efforts by Canisius, a collaborative effort between the athletic department and the College's communications studies program. Since the program started in the fall of 2015, the Golden Griffin Broadcast Network has produced 241 live home games for distribution on ESPN3 and ESPN+.

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