Women’s College Basketball: Battle of Nation’s Best, No. 1 South Carolina Travels to No. 2 UConn; Auriemma Project Continues

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Women’s College Basketball: Battle of Nation’s Best, No. 1 South Carolina Travels to No. 2 UConn; Auriemma Project Continues

Top-ranked South Carolina continues the “Pursuit of Perfection” with its 21-0 record when the Gamecocks travel to face No. 2 UConn for a Big Monday Presented by Verizon tilt on February 9 at 8 p.m. on ESPN. Dave O’Brien, analyst Doris Burke and reporter Holly Rowe will have the call of the game.

Game details:

  • SportsCenter will be live from Gampel Pavilion with anchor Kevin Negandhi hosting segments in the 6 p.m. hour and the entire 7 p.m. show from the site leading into the game, as well as a postgame segment for the 11 p.m. SportsCenter. Analysts Kara Lawson and Rebecca Lobo will also be onsite to provide analysis.
  • Burke and Rowe will have live reports from Gampel during the afternoon SportsCenter.
  • The game marks the 54th meeting between the Associated Press 1 vs. No. 2 with the top-ranked team owning a 33-20 all-time record vs. No. 2.
  • South Carolina’s A’ja Wilson and Tiffany Mitchell will visit ESPN’s Bristol, Conn., headquarters for a carwash on Sunday, Feb. 8, and will be seen across several ESPN platforms.
  • espnW’s three-episode documentary espnW Presents: The Geno Auriemma Project, continues with the second installment, “The Program,” airing Monday, Feb. 9, at 10 p.m. on ESPN2, immediately following the UConn-South Carolina tilt.  The series offers a behind-the-scenes look at Auriemma via interviews with the coach and the important people around him. Unprecedented access to his friends, family, colleagues and players was granted. The third and final installment will air after the conclusion of the NCAA Championship on Friday, April 10.

Also on Monday, No. 22 Georgia travels to Arkansas for a 7 p.m. matchup on SEC Network.

ESPN Women’s College Basketball Schedule (subject to change)

Date Time (ET) Game / Commentators Network
Mon, Feb 9 7 p.m. No. 22 Georgia at Arkansas
Brenda VanLengen & Debbie Antonelli
SEC Network
  St. Francis (N.Y) at Central Connecticut ESPN3
  Western Carolina at Mercer ESPN3
  8 p.m. Big Monday Presented by Verizon: No. 1 South Carolina at No. 2 Connecticut
Dave O’Brien & Doris Burke
ESPN2
  10 p.m. espnW presents: The Geno Auriemma Project – The Program ESPN2
  10:30 p.m. espnW presents: The Geno Auriemma Project – Together (reair) ESPN2
Wed, Feb 11 5:15 p.m. Oakland at Youngstown State ESPN3
  7 p.m. Toledo at Central Michigan ESPN3
  8 p.m. Detroit at Illinois-Chicago ESPN3
  Western Michigan at Northern Illinois ESPN3

 

 

Rachel Margolis Siegal

A part of the Internal Communications team at ESPN, I began with the network in 2010 as part of the College Sports PR team. Always an avid sports fan and not an athlete – I grew up a huge fan of the Hartford Whalers, while also watching my brother compete at different levels. I became the manager of several high school sports teams and continued that hobby into college. While at Quinnipiac, I worked in the Sports Information Department, which led me to a summer internship at the New Haven Ravens, a AA baseball team, and an eventual job with the Athletic Communications Department at the University of Connecticut. After my five-year stint at Connecticut, I spent six years as Director of Communications at the BIG EAST Conference in Providence, R.I. before joining ESPN.
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