ESPNU 2006-07 MEN'S COLLEGE ICE HOCKEY SCHEDULE

Over 20 Regular-Season Games Scheduled; ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU To Televise Entire NCAA Championship

ESPNU, the 24-hour college sports network, will air more than 20 regular-season Division I men's college ice hockey games this season. The network's coverage will continue Sunday, Oct. 22 when #3 North Dakota hosts #4 Maine at 3 p.m. In addition, for a third year, ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU will combine for complete coverage of the NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Championship, televising all 15 games from the selection show to the Frozen Four. ESPN began coverage of the NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Championship in 1980.

The schedule is highlighted by games featuring many of the top 15 teams in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine weekly poll, including #1 Boston College, #5 Michigan and #12 New Hampshire. Of the 28 schools featured, generally on Sundays, eight qualified for the 2006 NCAA Tournament.

ESPNU began coverage Friday, Oct. 6, with the Ice Breaker Tournament, which featured host #9 Miami (Ohio), Colgate, #11 Denver and #10 Vermont, and on Oct. 15 televised #8 Michigan State at Western Michigan. ESPN360, ESPN's customized broadband service, will also offer live coverage of the sport and will announce its schedule on a later date. Below is ESPNU's regular-season schedule, as well as the NCAA tournament schedule.

ESPNU COLLEGE HOCKEY SCHEDULE (Additional Games May Be Televised)

Date	Time (ET)	Game
Sun., Oct. 22 Sun., Oct. 29 Sun., Nov. 19 Sun., Nov. 26 Fri., Dec. 1 Sun., Dec. 3 Sun., Dec. 10 Sun., Dec. 17 Sun., Jan. 7 Sun., Jan. 14 Fri., Jan. 19 Sat., Jan. 20 Sun., Jan. 21 Sun., Jan. 28 Sun. Feb. 4 Sun., Feb. 11 Sun., Feb. 18 Sat., Feb. 24 Sun., Feb. 25 Sat., Mar. 3	3:00 PM 3:00 PM 3:00 PM 3:30 PM 9:30 PM 3:00 PM 3:00 PM 3:00 PM 3:00 PM 3:00 PM 11:00 PM 11:00 PM 4:30 PM 12:00 PM 3:00 PM 3:00 PM 3:00 PM 7:00 PM 3:00 PM 9:30 PM	Maine at North Dakota* Bowling Green at Miami (Ohio)* Boston College at Maine Colorado College at North Dakota* ESPNU Invitational: Denver at Colorado College Vermont at New Hampshire Michigan at Notre Dame Michigan Tech. at North Dakota* Providence at Boston College Alaska Anchorage at North Dakota* Michigan at Alaska Fairbanks Michigan at Alaska Fairbanks Ohio State at Miami (Ohio) Holy Cross at Quinnipiac Middlebury at Norwich Lake Superior State at Miami (Ohio)* Dartmouth at Yale Clarkson at Quinnipiac Massachusetts at Northeastern ESPNU Invitational: Denver at Colorado College

2007 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Championship Coverage on ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU

Date	Network	Time	Game
Sunday, March 19	ESPN2	11:00 AM	NCAA Hockey Selection Show Special
Friday, March 23	ESPNU	2:30 PM 6:00 PM 8:30 PM 11:00 PM	East regional semifinal #1 East regional semifinal #2 Midwest regional semifinal #2 Midwest regional semifinal #1 *
Saturday, March 24	ESPNU	3:30 PM 6:00 PM 8:30 PM 11:00 PM	West regional semifinal #1 East regional final Midwest regional final West semifinal #2 *
Sunday, March 25	ESPNU	11:30 AM 1:30 PM 3:30 PM 6:00 PM	Northeast semifinal #1 * Northeast semifinal #2 * Northeast regional final West regional final
Thursday, April 5	ESPN2	4:00 PM 8:00 PM	National semifinal #1 (St. Louis, Mo.) National semifinal #2 (St. Louis, Mo.)
Saturday, April 7	ESPN	7:00 PM	National Championship (St. Louis, Mo.)

* Taped

ESPNU
ESPNU was launched in March 2005. The network features extensive studio programming and live coverage of games, including college football, college basketball and other Olympic sports from over 20 Division I conferences such as the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), Atlantic 10, Big 12, BIG EAST, Big South, Big Ten, Horizon league, Mid-American Conference, Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC), Missouri Valley Conference (MVC), Ohio Valley Conference (OVC), Southland, Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) and more. In addition, the network has a wide-ranging, long-term agreement with the NCAA calling for enhanced coverage of 22 NCAA Championships, showcasing sports from each of the three collegiate seasons. ESPNU also has exclusive re-air rights to games on ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, and ESPN Regional television programming.

In addition, ESPNU.com, a new online college sports hub, was launched on August 28. It is the online companion to the ESPNU college sports television network, functioning as an online home for college sports multi-media content.

ESPNU has secured distribution agreements with DIRECTV (Channel 609), Echostar's DISH Network (Channel 148), Insight Communications, Mediacom, Verizon, several smaller affiliates and is close to distribution agreements with others. The 24-hour television network is the key component of the multimedia ESPNU initiative that will also deliver college sports content across ESPN's family of services, such as ESPN The Magazine, ESPN Radio, ESPN360, merchandising and more.

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