HSSN adds 11 Hilltopper basketball games to initial TV slate

Published 6:41 pm Wednesday, October 25, 2017

The Hilltopper Sports Satellite Network has selected an initial 11 Western Kentucky men’s basketball games for its broadcast schedule, adding to the previously announced TV schedule for the Hilltoppers. 

HSSN will begin its slate with WKU’s exhibition contest against Cumberland University on Nov. 7 and the regular-season home opener against Missouri State on Nov. 10. Those two games will air exclusively in Bowling Green on WKU PBS and in Louisville on WBNA, although the Missouri State game will be shown on delay on Fox College Sports on Nov. 11. 

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Additionally, HSSN will produce nine more regular-season matchups that will air nationally on Fox College Sports, which is also available via DirecTV, DISH and Fox’s FoxSportsGo provider-authenticated mobile platform. Exact clearances will be available leading up to each broadcast.

Those games will be WKU’s home contests against Kentucky Wesleyan (Nov. 15), Nicholls State (Nov. 19), Wright State (Dec. 2), Indiana State (Dec. 16), Belmont (Dec. 19), Southern Miss (Dec. 30), Florida Atlantic (Feb. 8) and FIU (Feb. 10). HSSN will also broadcast the Hilltoppers’ road game at Charlotte on Jan. 13. 

All nine games airing on Fox College Sports will also be available on WKU PBS in Bowling Green and WBNA in Louisville.

Lady Topper basketball games selected for broadcast by HSSN will be announced at a later date, and more men’s games could still be added.

HSSN’s selections join 17 Hilltopper basketball games already chosen for national broadcast or digital streaming. 

All WKU home games not on TV will be broadcast online on CUSA.tv.