Lamar Athletics Teams up with ESPN3

[KABrother88]

The Lamar University Athletics Department has joined forces with ESPN to deliver live coverage of home men's and women's basketball games for this season and home football games beginning with the 2016 season. The package starts tonight with a basketball doubleheader against the University of New Orleans. The women's game will start at 5 p.m., with the men's game slated for a 7:30 p.m. tipoff.

 

All nine remaining women's home games and eight of the nine remaining men's games will be on ESPN3. The Jan. 11 men's game vs. Texas A&M-Corpus Christi will be televised by the American Sports Network.

 

http://lamarcardinals.com/news/2016/1/4/MBB_0104164210.aspx

Edited January 4, 2016 by KABrother88

[coachacola]

SFA also has a deal with ESPN3 so it's nice seeing LU doing the same.

[lu cards]

we get any $$$ for this?

[coachacola]

we get any $$$ for this?

 

My guess is LU gets no direct money from ESPN, but it ups their national exposure and maybe more advertising revenue goes to LU.

[KABrother88]

Could also potentially help with recruiting if a kid and his family know that half the games can be watched from home. Obviously they would probably rather have those people in the stands but I'm sure some families can't afford to travel to every game.

[Guest austinred]

Could also potentially help with recruiting if a kid and his family know that half the games can be watched from home. Obviously they would probably rather have those people in the stands but I'm sure some families can't afford to travel to every game.

 

Excellent. I use Google Chromecast to cast ESPN3 to my TV and it is a great picture.

[Privateer6]

Congrats on the deal with ESPN. It was nice to be able to watch the UNO/Lamar game on ESPN3 and I look forward to checking out the Cardinals much more often now. I hope the Privateers do something similar soon.