League to Broadcast Select Men and Women's Games on the Internet

SALEM, Va. --- Following a very successful fall football campaign, the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) will continue its offering of video webcasts available on the Internet by expanding the service to men and women's basketball.  Tipping-off the ODAC's schedule of broadcasts will be the first of two highly anticipated men's basketball matchups between Hampden-Sydney College and Guilford College on Wednesday, January 9, at Guilford.  Game time is set for 7:00 p.m.

Penn Atlantic Inc. will again be providing the ODAC with its service to stream audio and video across the Internet.  All scheduled ODAC games can be accessed from Penn Atlantic's game schedule (www.pennatlantic.com) as the game date approaches.

Guilford and Hampden-Sydney enter the contest firing on all-cylinders following a couple brief hiccups early in the season.  Following an early loss to Greensboro in their second game of the season, head coach Tom Palombo's Quakers (6-2, 1-0 ODAC) have won five of their past six games.  Ben Strong, the reigning national and ODAC Player of the Year, has scored at least 20 points in all but one game this season including a season-high 35 points at N.C. Wesleyan in early December.  The 6-11 senior center has recorded double-doubles in seven of the squad's eight games played including each of the past five outings.  Aside from leading the conference in scoring (24.8 ppg), he and fellow big man Tyler Sanborn sit atop the ODAC rebound rankings at 11.8 and 9.8 boards per game, respectively.  Guard Clay Henson, who recently scored a career-best 29 points by tying a school-record with nine three-pointers against Averett, sits 10^th in the league in scoring at 14.5 points per game.

Hampden-Sydney features a starting line-up that rivals most in the NCAA.  The reigning ODAC champions are averaging 82.2 points per game (second in the ODAC) with nearly 60 of those points coming from the quartet of Turner King, Troy Kaase, Drew Prehmus and Tyler Murray.  King, the reigning ODAC Player of the Week, sits second in the league in scoring at 21.6 points per game.  The sophomore lefty has upped the ante from a solid freshman campaign, recently setting a new career-high with 36 points against Greensboro.  While he has the ability to take the ball to the rim, King has connected on four or more three-pointers in three different games this season.  Kaase, a former All-ODAC first team selection, has returned from injury to spark the Tigers' interior play.  He's averaging 15.5 points and 7.1 rebounds per contest.  Prehmus (13.5 ppg) and Murray (9.1 ppg) are "do it all" players for head coach Bubba Smith's squad.  Both hit the boards hard (11.5 rpg. between the two) and play solid all-around defense.  Prehmus leads the squad in long-distance field goals (23-of-56 from 3-pt.).

Listed below is the tentative schedule of men and women's basketball games the ODAC plans to air via the videocast.  Once available, links to the games can be accessed through several Internet locations.  Each event can be reached from the ODAC website at www.odaconline.com or by directly browsing to www.pennatlantic.com and selecting the game from its list of scheduled broadcasts.  Depending on which schools are playing, links to the contests will also be available at the respective participants' websites.  There will be a small charge of $3.50 to view each game.

In order to view the broadcasts, you will have to be using a cable or DSL high-speed Internet connection (preferably above 600 kbps download speed).  You can test your speed (bandwidth) directly from the Penn Atlantic website.  The feed will not work with a dial-up set up.  You will also need Windows Media Player 9.0 or 10.0.

For AOL users, you will not be able to access the Penn Atlantic website via the AOL browser (due to firewall).  If you use Internet Explorer instead (installed on every Windows-based PC), you will have no problems viewing the game.

Macintosh users should view the "FAQ" section of the Penn Atlantic website to learn about how you can view the game.  Scroll down near the bottom of that section to the "Can I watch a game on my Macintosh?" question to learn how to view the game.

2008 ODAC Basketball Videocast Schedule
Men's Games
- January 9: Hampden-Sydney at Guilford
- January 13: Virginia Wesleyan at Guilford
- January 16: Guilford at Roanoke
- January 26: Roanoke at Hampden-Sydney
- February 6: Emory & Henry at Roanoke
- February 9: Bridgewater at Eastern Mennonite
- February 13: Randolph at Lynchburg
- February 17: Lynchburg at Washington & Lee
- February 23: Hampden-Sydney at Randolph-Macon
- March 1: ODAC Semifinals (x2)
- March 2: ODAC Championship

Women's Games
- January 19: Virginia Wesleyan at Randolph-Macon
- January 29: Virginia Wesleyan at Eastern Mennonite
- February 1: Bridgewater at Lynchburg
- February 16: Roanoke at Guilford
- March 1: ODAC Semifinals (x2)
- March 2: ODAC Championship