Coverage of 2011-12 Cardinal games

Note: Updated Nov 8 with information about Texas Longhorn Network

Summarized below are your options for watching or listening to the Stanford women's basketball games you can't attend in person this season.

You can find links to all available coverage of specific games in:

• The FBC 2011-12 Schedule & Results and


• The mini-schedule of "Prior and Upcoming Games" on the FBC home page.

Television

Six of the Cardinal games will be shown on national television this season:

• ESPNU: The game at UConn on Nov 21.


• FSN/Comcast: The home game against Tennessee (Dec 20), away at Arizona State (Feb 2), home against USC (Feb 9), home against UCLA (Feb 12) and away at Cal (Mar 4).

Two other games will be covered by local television networks:

• Longhorn Network will cover the game at Texas on Nov 11. Longhorn is a new network with very limited support (more info ...). The telecast can probably be seen only in the Austin area.

  The good news is that the Longhorn Network will provide free access to its online stream of the game. Just go to its website at game time.



• ROOT Sports Rocky Mountain will cover the game at Colorado on Jan 14. This network has extensive support throughout the Pacific Northwest and Rocky Mountain areas. (I get it in Palo Alto on DivectTV channels 683 and 684.)

Webcasts

Stanford All-Access will cover all the non-televised home games. Most of our opponents will video-stream their non-televised home games via All-Access or some other provider.

Access to a webcast requires a subscription with the host school. So away games are essentially pay-per-view at the monthly rate of $9.95.

All-Access has greatly improved its user interface and removed a major irritation. When you order a subscription, you can specify that it is to be cancelled at the end of the subscription period — you no longer have to remember to do that after you've watched the game.

The link to a particular webcast is often not posted until just before the game. So no link may mean "not yet", not "no webcast" — do check the schedule on game day.

Radio

KZSU plans to broadcast all the Cardinal games this season, although their current schedule only shows the next couple of games.

KZSU can cover up to three events concurrently on its three audio streams. You can almost always find the game by selecting KZSU-2 on KSZU Live. It will carry the game whether or not the game is being broadcast live on 90.1 FM.

Gametracker

Gametracker will cover all the Cardinal games this season. Gametracker is not a very satisfying way to "watch" a basketball game, but at least it provides the current score and statistics.