(01-12-2018 10:41 AM)J.B. Wrote:  

(01-12-2018 10:29 AM)EvanJ Wrote:  

(01-11-2018 04:40 PM)sctvman Wrote:  No reason we shouldn’t have a national TV game on tonight or at least on some Thursdays. CBSSN is carrying 6-9 Tennessee State at 6-9 Eastern Illinois tonight at 7 o’clock. No reason there shouldn’t be a CAA game there in that slot.

CBSSN is carrying 7 OVC games while ESPNU has 7 more. That’s 14 games on national TV for a league with only regional interest in mostly smaller towns in KY/TN/IN/IL, while the CAA, playing in major metropolitan areas, has almost no TV exposure.

The OVC has 12 teams, and only one of them has a better RPI than the sixth best RPI in the CAA.

(01-12-2018 08:35 AM)J.B. Wrote:  The loss of the NBC Sports Regional deal was the biggest blow. That was the bread and butter of the league since way before the northern teams joined on and the games were on HTS.

What does HTS mean?

HTS=HOME TEAM SPORTS. It was the regional sports network in the Baltimore/Washington area in the 90's. It became Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic, and it's now NBC Sports Washington.

I remember HTS

That channel has always been very good to the CAA. Ashame the relationship ended