Nov. 23, 2004

EASTON, Pa. (www.lafayette.edu) - The 2004 Patriot League champion Lafayette Leopards' first round NCAA Division I-AA playoff game at Delaware on Saturday will be carried live nationally on CSTV: College Sports Television.

CSTV is available via DIRECTV channel 610 and on both Comcast and Time Warner Cable. Regionally, the CSTV broadcast will be available on Lafayette Sports Network affiliates RCN TV-4 and WBPH TV-60. The CSTV broadcast can also be seen in the Harriburg, Baltimore, and Philadelphia markets, as well as most of New Jersey, on CN8.

Tom McCarthy will handle the play-by-play, while Scott Zolak will provide color commentary. Jenny Cavnar will report on the action from the sideline.

The 2004 Patriot League champion Leopards (8-3 overall, 5-1 Patriot League) travel to defending national champion Delaware (8-3 overall, 7-1 Atlantic 10) for a 3:05 p.m. kickoff. Lafayette, making its first postseason appearance, earned the league's automatic berth in the tournament via its 24-10 win over Lehigh on Saturday. Delaware earned an at-large bid to the playoffs after sharing the Atlantic 10 title with William and Mary and James Madison.

CSTV is a multi-media company that consists of the first-ever 24-hour college sports television network, College Sports TV; the leading college sports online network, CollegeSports.com; and the first ever 24-hour college sports radio network, SIRIUS College Sports Radio. Through its numerous platforms, CSTV provides more live college sports games, events, news, information, analysis and broadband content, and reaches more college sports fans, than any other company. CSTV currently has agreements with distributors that represent more than 52 million homes nationwide, including the top three national distributors: Comcast, DIRECTV and Time Warner Cable.

CollegeSports.com, the most-trafficked college sports Web site, and its network of nearly 160 official athletic sites are the number one online source for college sports broadband content, news, information, scores and analysis. SIRIUS College Sports Radio will broadcast a comprehensive package of college football and basketball games from teams in the Big 10, Big 12, Big East, Pac 10, and SEC conferences, as well as from Notre Dame. CollegeSports.com is the host of Lafayette's athletics website www.GoLeopards.com, where Leopard fans nationwide can log on for live statistics and scores, as well as live audio of many Lafayette athletic events.

The Lafayette Sports Network can be seen by more than 9.1 million viewers on RCN-TV 4 and WBPH-TV 60 in Eastern Pennsylvania - including all of Philadelphia - and Western New Jersey.