BETHANY – For the first time in Southern Nazarene athletics history, ESPN is coming to the Sawyer Center.
 
The NCAA Division II announced 28 regular-season men's and women's basketball games that will be highlighted on ESPN3, and the Crimson Storm basketball programs will be two of the featured games. The games are expected to highlight premier and pivotal matchups during the course of the 2019-20 season.
 
Southern Nazarene's contests with Southeastern Oklahoma State on Saturday, December 14 will be featured in the showcase as the women tip off at 1:05 p.m. CT with the men to follow at 3:05 p.m. CT.
 
Now in its second year, the NCAA Division II's media agreement features two distribution models for basketball and football. For basketball, 18 games will stream exclusively on ESPN3, available on espn.com and the ESPN App.
 
"The basketball season is off to an exciting start," said Terri Steeb Gronau, vice president of Division II. "We're looking forward to another great Division II Basketball Showcase that highlights our student-athletes' achievements on and off the court."
 
ESPN3 is ESPN's live multiscreen sports network, a destination that delivers thousands of exclusive sports events annually. It is accessible on espn.com and the ESPN App across computers, smartphones, tablets and connected streaming devices. The network is also available at no additional cost to U.S. college students and U.S.-based military personnel via computers, smartphones, and tablets connected to on-campus educational and on-base military broadband and Wi-Fi networks.
 
The basketball showcase begins Nov. 24 with a doubleheader between East Stroudsburg and Indiana (Pennsylvania) in the hybrid NCAA social media model. The ESPN3 portion of the schedule opens with Southern Nazarene's doubleheader with Southeastern Oklahoma State.