University of Tennessee Athletics
Lady Vols Have 21 TV Games In 2014-15
September 23, 2014 | Women's Basketball
KNOXVILLE -- The Southeastern Conference released the complete 2014-15 women's basketball broadcast schedule on Tuesday. After all the network assignments were made and game times were set, the Lady Vols will have 21 of 30 games, including 15 of 16 league tilts, scheduled for television this season.
Tennessee, ranked No. 3 in Charlie Creme's espnW Pre-Preseason Poll, will be featured 12 times on TV via the SEC Network, four times on ESPN2, twice each on ESPNU and Fox Sports Net, and once on Fox Sports 1. Twenty of those 21 contests also will be available via WatchESPN, with the Fox Sports 1 telecast being the only exception.
The nine remaining games will be streamed live on the internet. Seven of those events will be carried by SEC Network +, and the others will be provided on GoMocs.com (Nov. 26 at Chattanooga) and on ESPN3 (Dec. 7 at Lipscomb). The first SEC Network + event will be the exhibition game vs. Carson-Newman at 2 p.m. on Nov. 9. UT's first five regular season home games also will be carried on SEC Network +, as will the Feb. 12 trip to Ole Miss.
The four televised ESPN2 contests include road tilts at Rutgers on Dec. 14, at Notre Dame on Jan. 19 and at South Carolina on Feb. 23, and home vs. Kentucky (Live Pink, Bleed Orange) on Feb. 15. ESPNU will have the Jan. 11 game at Arkansas and the Feb. 8 contest at Florida.
The Arkansas game time, meanwhile, has been changed and will now tip at 2 p.m. Central/3 p.m. Eastern.
The SEC Network will carry home battles vs. Wichita State (Dec. 16), Stanford (Dec. 20), Oregon State (Dec. 28), Missouri (Jan. 2), Texas A&M (Jan. 8), LSU ("We Back Pat' game, Jan. 22), Georgia (Jan. 25), Mississippi State (Feb. 1) and Vanderbilt (March 1), and road trips to Vanderbilt (Jan. 5), Kentucky (Jan. 29) and Georgia (Feb. 26).
Fox Sports 1 will have the Texas game in Austin on Nov. 30, while Fox Sports Net will televise the Jan. 15 encounter at Auburn and the Feb. 19 home affair vs. Alabama.
In addition to being on TV, all of the games included in the ESPN package (ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU) and the SEC Network will be available through WatchESPN, accessible online at WatchESPN.com, on smartphones and tablets via the WatchESPN app, and streamed on televisions through Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Chromecast, Roku, Xbox 360 or Xbox One to fans who receive their video subscription from an affiliated provider. FOX Sports Net events will be available via these avenues outside the SEC Footprint only.
AT&T U-verse® TV, Bright House Networks, Charter, Comcast Xfinity TV, Cox Communications, DIRECTV, DISH, Google Fiber, LUS Fiber, PTC Communications, Suddenlink, Time Warner Cable, NCTC, NRTC, NTTC, Verizon FiOS and Wilkes Telephone will carry the SEC Network nationwide. Hundreds of additional live events from various sports will be offered exclusively as SEC Network+ events on WatchESPN and SECNetwork.com through AT&T U-verse, Charter, Comcast, Cox, DISH, Google Fiber, Suddenlink, NCTC, NRTC, NTTC and Verizon FiOS authentication.
Season tickets went on sale to the public Sept. 9 and can be purchased at the UT Ticket Office, by visiting UTtix.com or by calling 1-800-332-8657. Single-game tickets and mini packs go on sale to #GBO Insider email subscribers Oct. 9, while sales to the public begin Oct. 14.
Tennessee returns four starters and eight of 10 letterwinners (minus the graduated Meighan Simmons and redshirting Mercedes Russell) from last season's 29-6 SEC Tournament Championship team. Warlick's most-experienced unit yet will be bolstered by the nation's No. 6 recruiting class.
