BTN Broadcast Schedule Set for Fall 2016
6/22/2016 12:00:00 AM | Field Hockey, Men's Soccer, Women's Soccer, Volleyball, Terrapin Athletics
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The University of Maryland will have nine regular season Olympic sport events televised live this fall on the Big Ten Network, announced Wednesday.
The men's soccer team has a league-high four contests slated for BTN broadcast, including matches at Indiana (Sept. 9), Rutgers (Sept. 13) and Michigan (Oct. 30) and at home versus Ohio State (Oct. 7).
Volleyball and field hockey will each have a pair of games on BTN. The network will be on-hand as volleyball welcomes Ohio State Oct. 26 and travels to Purdue on Nov. 2 and for field hockey's home game versus Michigan on Sept. 30 and its battle at Penn State on Oct. 16.
BTN will also broadcast the women's soccer tilt against Illinois on Sept. 2 at Ludwig Field.
The Big Ten Network was the first internationally distributed network dedicated to covering a single collegiate athletic conference. Dedicated to sports and other programming from the Big Ten, the network's lineup includes telecasts of Big Ten events, archived events involving schools in the conference, studio shows, coach's shows, documentaries and other programming related to the conference.
The network reaches approximately 90 million households nationwide, and is available up to an estimated 100 million pay television households in the United States and Canada.
