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Monday, January 28th, 2013

NBC SPORTS NETWORK PRESENTS MORE THAN 10 HOURS OF COLLEGE BASKETBALL THIS WEEK

Stan Van Gundy to Serve as Analyst for Drexel – George Mason on Thursday Night at 7 P.M. ET 

College Basketball Tripleheader on Saturday

No. 15 New Mexico Hosts Nevada Saturday Night at 8 P.M. ET

NEW YORK – January 28, 2013 – NBC Sports Network’s coverage of the 2012 college basketball season continues this week with five games and more than 10 hours of coverage, highlighted by a tripleheader on Saturday.

Coverage begins tonight with Drexel hosting Delaware at 7 p.m. ET from the Daskalakis Athletic Center in Philadelphia, PA. Mike Corey will manage play-by-play duties for the game and will be joined by analyst Ron Thompson.

Thursday night at 7 p.m. ET, former NBA head coach and NBC Sports Network analyst Stan Van Gundy will pair with veteran play-by-play announcer Corey to call Drexel and George Mason at the Patriot Center in Fairfax, Va.

NBC Sports Network’s college basketball tripleheader begins on Saturday at 2 p.m. ET, when Dayton travels to the Chaifetz Arena in St. Louis, Mo. to take on Saint Louis. Dave Strader will handle play-by-play duties alongside analyst Mike Kaplan.

At 6 p.m. ET Princeton hosts Columbia at the L. Stockwell Jadwin Gymnasium in Princeton, N.J. Randy Moss will serve as the play-by-play announcer for the matchup and will be joined analyst Dalen Cuff.

At 8 p.m. ET No. 15 New Mexico hosts Nevada at the Davalos Basketball Center in Albuquerque, N.M. Play-by-play announcer Steve Schlanger will call the action with analyst Blaine Fowler.

The NBC Sports Network will televise more than 65 college basketball games this season — the most in its history — featuring more than 40 different schools. The majority of the games and teams will come from the Atlantic 10, Mountain West, Colonial Athletic Association and Ivy League conferences.

–NBC Sports Group–