University Park, Pa. — A new, one-hour episode of The Journey: Big Ten Basketball 2011 featuring Penn State and all-time leading scorer Talor Battle highlights the Big Ten Network’s 13 consecutive hours of Nittany Lion programming on Wednesday, June 29.
The Penn State men’s basketball, football, wrestling and women’s track and field teams will be featured on the second of three Penn State Days this summer on BTN. The Nittany Lions also will be featured on July 26 with different programming.
In a special one-hour episode, BTN highlights Penn State’s memorable 2010-11 season at 8 p.m. and Thursday at 1 a.m. From a last second loss at Purdue through the Nittany Lions’ run to the Big Ten Tournament Championship game and NCAA Tournament berth, The Journey was behind the scenes with Battle as he embarks on his future after graduation. The episode will also chronicle the beginning of the Patrick Chambers era as the Nittany Lions’ head coach.
Immediately following The Journey, at 9 p.m. BTN will air the Nittany Lions’ thrilling two-point win over Illinois from Jan. 11, 2011, as Andrew Jones slammed home the game-winner in the final seconds, giving Penn State consecutive wins over Top 25 teams.
The Penn State wrestling team captured its first Big Ten Championship this past March and the conference’s championship meet will air Wednesday at 4:00 p.m. Coach Cael Sanderson’s team went 5 of 5 in the finals, to give Penn State a one-point victory over defending champion Iowa. Two weeks later, Penn State captured its first NCAA Wrestling Championship since 1953.
Also among the events that will air Wednesday are Big Ten Football in 60: Penn State vs. Indiana on Nov. 20, 2010, as the Nittany Lions beat the Hoosiers before a partisan crowd at FedEx Field in Landover, Md. The game airs at 7 p.m.
Episodes of Big Ten’s Greatest Games featuring the Nittany Lions will air throughout the day. The 2006 FedEx Orange Bowl, in which Big Ten Champion Penn State beat Florida State in triple overtime, will air at 11 p.m.
The Big Ten Network televised 115 Penn State events during 2010-11, in addition to coverage of 15 Big Ten Championships and institutional programming. Twenty-five Penn State squads were featured amongst BTN’s more than 600 events in 2010-11.
The Big Ten Network is available to more than 80 million homes through agreements with more than 300 cable, satellite and telco providers in all 50 states and Canada. Blue Ridge, Adams and MetroCast Cable in Pennsylvania, though, do not carry the Big Ten Network. The network also is not available to Armstrong Cable customers in western Pennsylvania and the Medina and Youngstown, Ohio areas. A combined total of more than 35,000 Penn State alumni live in communities served by the four cable providers, in addition to thousands more fans and current Penn State students.
Multiple Penn State football games will air on the Big Ten Network this fall, including the Oct. 22 clash at Northwestern, which will kick at 6 p.m. CT in Evanston.
Penn State Day Schedule – June 29
All times Eastern
10 a.m. Big Ten’s Greatest Games
Nittany Lion Basketball: 2001 Big Ten Tournament – Penn State 65, Michigan State 63 (3/9/01)
2 p.m. 2010 Big Ten Women’s Indoor Track Championships
Penn State wins the second of its 2009-10 “Triple Crown”
4 p.m. 2011 Big Ten Wrestling Championships
Penn State goes 5 of 5 in the finals to win its first Big Ten title
7 p.m. Big Ten Football in 60:
Penn State vs. Indiana; Landover, Md. (11/20/10)
8 p.m. The Journey: Big Ten Basketball 2011
Nittany Lion Basketball 2010-11 season review/Talor Battle
9 p.m. Big Ten’s Greatest Games
Nittany Lion Basketball: Penn State 57, Illinois 55 (1/11/11)
10 p.m. Big Ten’s Greatest Games
Football: 2006 FedEx Orange Bowl – Penn State 26, Florida State 23 (1/3/06)
1 a.m. The Journey: Big Ten Basketball 2011
Nittany Lion Basketball 2010-11 season review/Talor Battle
2 a.m. Big Ten Football in 60:
Northwestern at Penn State; (11/6/10)
About the BTN: A joint venture between the Big Ten Conference and Fox Networks, the Big Ten Network is the first internationally distributed network dedicated to covering one of the premier collegiate conferences in the country. With more than 600 events, all in HD, the 24/7 network is the ultimate destination for Big Ten fans and alumni across the country, allowing them to see their favorite teams, regardless of where they live. Events include football, men’s and women’s basketball games; dozens of Big Ten Championship events; studio shows; coaches’ shows; and classic games. The network televises and streams more Olympic sporting events and women’s sports than has ever been aired on any other network. Original programming highlights activities and accomplishments of some of the nation’s finest universities. The groundbreaking Student U initiative provides real-world experience for students interested in careers in sports television.
The network is available to more than 80 million homes across the United States and Canada, and currently has agreements with more than 300 affiliates, including DirecTV, DISH Network, Verizon FiOS, AT&T U-Verse, Atlantic Broadband, CATV Service, Cablevision, Charter, Comcast, Consolidated Communications, Cox (Cleveland, Arizona, Arkansas, Kansas, Omaha, Las Vegas and Northern Virginia), Insight, Mediacom, Nittany Media, RCN, Rogers Cable (Canada), Service Electric, Shaw Cable and Shaw Direct (Canada), Time Warner Cable and Windstream. For updated information on the Big Ten Network, go to www.BTN.com.