*****Official KU vs UMKC game thread!*****
 

Time to start defending the title.

KU vs. UMKC
Date: Sun., Nov. 16
Time: 7:30 p.m. CT
Where: Allen Fieldhouse
TV: ESPNU
Last time: 2007: 85-62 Kansas win
Series record: KU leads 4-0

What is ESPNU?

Sweet!!! PBJ

ESPNU is a television channel that specializes in college sports, and is produced by, affiliated with and owned by parent network ESPN. ESPNU originates out of ESPN Regional Television's Charlotte, North Carolina offices, also the home of ESPN Plus.

History

The network was launched on March 4, 2005 from the site of Gallagher-Iba Arena on the Oklahoma State University Campus in Stillwater, Oklahoma. The network's first live event was a semi-final game of the Ohio Valley Conference men's basketball tournament that saw Southeast Missouri State University fall to Eastern Kentucky University. The network was launched as a response to upstart rival CSTV (now CBS College Sports Network). ESPN was also being investigated by the U.S. Justice Department due to "warehousing" of college games from certain conferences, or signing a deal with a conference for all their games, but only televising a small number and not allowing the conference to make other arrangements for TV broadcasts.[1]
ESPN and XOS Technologies signed a partnership for college athletics websites to compete directly with CSTV's growing internet presence. On August 28, 2006, ESPNU launched a new SportsCenter spin-off dealing entirely with college sports. That show , called SportsCenterU, was originally scheduled to be broadcast from ESPN headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut, but ESPN changed its plans and the show originates from Charlotte.
Mike Hall was the show's lead anchor until August 2007, when he left for the new Big Ten Network. The new anchors are Mike Gleason and Lowell Galindo. They are joined on-set by color commentators that vary with the sports season.
Also, on August 28, 2006, ESPNU premiered ESPNU.com. The website will include Live streaming college sports events, multi-media player dedicated to college sports, podcasts and ESPN Motion clips of studio programming from the ESPNU television network.

Why is that sweet? I have to pay an extra 5 bucks a month to get that channel. KU will have for sure 5 and possibly six games on that channel.

Is it on Directv?

I'm a little outside 38 the Spot's broadcast region. I have a Slingbox, but bandwidth is sometimes questionable.







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ESPNU, Channel 614
ESPNU is a college sports initiative across ESPN's family of services. This network features about 300 live events, mostly D-1 football and men's/women's basketball and college sports championships.

Looks to be part of what they call Sports Pack.

www.justin.tv

Learn it, live it, love it.

I love my 61" HDTV a lot more than my 17" LCD monitor.

We're going to need consistent contributions from players outside of Collins and Aldrich this season, so I'm interested to see who steps up.

My guess is the Morris twins will be money.

Go Aldrich!

This season is going to be great. There will not be one game that they don't talk about the National Championship.

You're living in the past..

(Yeah, yeah... I'm very jealous. Sue me.)