The dates, times and television coverage of the Big East portion of the Huskies’ 2008-09 schedule is still to be finalized. But the team that is expected to be the prohibitive favorite to win the national championship will again receive plenty of national exposure in non-conference play.
UConn will host Oklahoma on ESPN Nov. 30 at 8 p.m. and LSU on CBS Jan. 3. Either ESPN or ESPN2 will carry its matchup at North Carolina Jan. 19. The latter carried the Big Monday games last season.
ESPNU will air the Huskies/Penn State game in the Maggie Dixon Classic at Madison Square Garden Dec. 14. UConn had seven regular season games appear on national television last season. This includes ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, CBS and CSTV.
Other non-conference games include home games against Holy Cross, Hartford, Georgia Tech, Rhode Island and San Diego State and road games at BYU and South Carolina. UConn will meet Florida State, Washington and a team still to be determined at the Caribbean Classic MTE in Cancun, Mexico in December.
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