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Princeton University Athletics
Ivy League Rivalries Take Center Stage on CSTV
January 29, 2004 | Men's Basketball
Jan. 29, 2004
NEW YORK - A trio of intense Ivy League rivalries will take center stage on CSTV: College Sports Television (www.cstv.com) when the first 24-hour college sports network provides telecasts of #19 Cornell at #15 Penn wrestling, Harvard at Yale hockey and Pennsylvania at Princeton men's basketball over an upcoming nine-day span.
College Sports TV will televise the Cornell-Penn wrestling meet on Sunday, February 1 (8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT). Harvard and Yale will play in the first game of the live, February 6 CSTV Friday Night Hockey college hockey game-of-the-week doubleheader, with faceoff set for 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT. The second game of that evening's CSTV Friday Night Hockey twinbill pits Michigan against host Alaska-Fairbanks at 11 p.m. ET/8 p.m. PT. Penn and Princeton will tip off live on CSTV Tuesday, February 10, at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.
Cornell-Penn wrestling: between the two of them, Cornell and Penn have captured the last 17 Ivy League wrestling championships...defending champion Cornell has won 24 Ivy titles overall, and Penn 11...the series stands 70-20-1, in Cornell's favor...Penn's Brandon Slay won an wrestling Olympic gold medal in the 2000 Sydney Games...each school has had an individual NCAA champion in the past four years, including Cornell's Travis Lee (2003), who returns this year. Harvard-Yale hockey: the two teams have met 217 times on the ice, with Harvard owning a 132-68-17 advantage...Harvard defeated Yale 4-1 in November...the two hockey teams first faced off against each other in 1900...Harvard (24) and Yale (8) have won a total of 32 Ivy League hockey titles.
Penn-Princeton men's basketball: either Princeton or Penn has won a share of all but two Ivy League titles since 1962...Princeton has captured 24 overall, Penn 22...defending champion Penn holds a 112-95 series lead over Princeton
College Sports TV will also present the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League Mens' Championship featuring the Ivy League, Army and Navy on Monday, March 15 (10:30 p.m. ET/7:30 p.m. PT). CSTV Lax, the first live, college lacrosse national television series, will feature a pair of Ivy League rivalries live: the Yale at Princeton women's lacrosse game on Saturday, April 10 (3 p.m. ET/12 p.m. PT), and the Dartmouth-Cornell men's lacrosse game Saturday, April 17 (1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT). Princeton will also be featured in lacrosse games against Johns Hopkins, Virginia, Syracuse and Rutgers. CSTV will air the Ivy League Heptagonal Outdoor Track and Field Championship in May. CSTV's schedule is subject to change.
College Sports TV also covers Ivy League teams and student-athletes extensively through its various studio programming, including the CSTV Primetime and CSTV Scoreboard live studio shows originating from the CSTV Fieldhouse in New York that provide up-to-date scores, news, highlights, analysis and features from throughout the world of college sports.
CSTV, the first 24-hour college sports network, is available to more than 15 million homes nationally on cable and satellite. The network is available on Adelphia and Insight cable systems, among others, and is also available on DirecTV (channel 610). For information on CSTV availability in particular markets, consumers can log on to www.cstv.com or call their cable or satellite operator.
CSTV has covered more college sports than any other network since launching last April. The network has televised more than 2,500 hours of original programming spanning 30 men's and women's college sports, including basketball, football, baseball, hockey, soccer, lacrosse and volleyball. College Sports TV's event, studio and original programs have covered more than 1,000 colleges and universities across all NCAA divisions and the NAIA. College Sports TV televises regular season and championship event coverage from every major collegiate athletic conference, and also televises nine NCAA Championships. The network also has a programming and marketing agreement with the U.S. Olympic Committee.