ESPN Announces Women’s College Basketball Big Monday Schedule
for 2009-10 Season

ESPN has announced the 2009-10 Big Monday Presented by Bud Light women’s college basketball schedule featuring the nation’s top teams in action every Monday primarily at 7 p.m. or 9 p.m. ET from Jan. 11 to March 1. New to this year’s schedule is the addition of Big Monday doubleheaders on Feb. 8, Feb. 15 and Feb. 22.  Every game will be televised on ESPN2 and will also be available on ESPN360.com.

Entering its fourth season, ESPN2’s Big Monday prime-time Game of the Week series will include 11 games (up from eight) throughout January and February, featuring the best programs in Division I women’s basketball. The series will begin on Jan. 11 at 7:30 p.m. with an ACC matchup featuring Maryland at Virginia. 

Before the tipoff of the Big Monday schedule, ESPN will showcase a prime-time matchup in its regular time slot, Monday, Jan. 4, at 7 p.m. pitting the BIG EAST’s Notre Dame at the Big Ten’s Purdue.

Big Monday schedule highlights:

• Defending NCAA Champion Connecticut will appear three times: vs. Duke (Jan. 18 at 7 p.m.), Oklahoma (Feb. 15 at 9 p.m.) and Notre Dame (March 1 at 7 p.m.);
• All 15 teams on the schedule appeared in the 2009 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament; nine made it to the Sweet Sixteen; four advanced to the Elite Eight; and two played in the Women’s Final Four;
• Every game will be available in HD on ESPN2 HD.

ESPN2’s Women’s College Basketball Schedule for Big Monday Presented by Bud Light

(Subject to change)

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