The Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers are the athletic teams that represent Kentucky Wesleyan College , located in Owensboro, Kentucky , in intercollegiate sports as a member of the Division II level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).
21-512: KWU competes in 22 intercollegiate varsity sports, listed below: The men's basketball team advanced to the Division II championship game six consecutive years (1998–2003), winning in 1999 and 2001. In addition to these most recent successes, they also won six other championships (1966, 1968, 1969, 1973, 1987, and 1990) and were runners-up in 1957. Overall, Kentucky Wesleyan has won eight NCAA Division II National Men's Basketball Championships, which
42-454: A Division II women's championship . Like all other NCAA basketball divisions for men and women, the champion is decided in a single-elimination tournament. The Division II tournament normally involves 64 teams. The Division II tournaments for men and women differ in a major respect from those in Divisions I and III. The finals of both Division II tournaments consist of eight teams, instead of
63-405: A full 24-hour schedule of sports talk programming on January 2, 2013. CBS Sports Radio was originally owned by CBS Radio , with Westwood One handling distribution and marketing of the network. Sports radio stations that were owned by Entercom (now Audacy ) and Cumulus Media carried part of the full schedule of programming, while eight Entercom-owned stations carry network programming throughout
84-441: Is CBSSports.com . CBS purchased SportsLine.com in 2004, and today CBSSports.com is part of Paramount Streaming . On February 26, 2018, following up on the success of their online news network CBSN , CBS Sports launched CBS Sports HQ , a 24/7, online only, linear sports news network. The network focuses entirely on sports news, results, highlights and analysis. (CBS Sports college sports and golf programming that it distributes over
105-510: Is a sports-oriented American digital cable and satellite channel that is operated by Paramount Global through CBS Sports. Launched as the National College Sports Network in 2002, then renamed as College Sports Television in 2003, CBS's then-parent company Viacom acquired the network in 2005 and later renamed it CBS College Sports Network in 2008. The network had always focused on college sports, but in 2011, CBS rebranded
126-668: Is the most by any NCAA Division II School. Kentucky Wesleyan has an American football team, which competes in the Division II Great Midwest Athletic Conference . The Panthers primarily compete in the Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC), as a founding member since the 2013–14 academic year. The Panthers previously competed as a charter member of the Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) from 1978–79 to 2011–12 (but
147-1038: The CBS Broadcast Center on W 57th Street . CBS' premier sports properties include the WNBA , NFL , Big Ten football, NCAA Division I college basketball (including alternating-year telecasts of the NCAA men's basketball tournament ), PGA Tour golf, the Masters Tournament , the PGA Championship , and the UEFA Champions League . CBS Sports was honored at the 59th Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Advanced Media Technology for Synchronous Enhancement of Original Television Content for Interactive Use for its program March Madness on Demand. CBS Sports Network
168-399: The 1980s (1984, 1986, and 1989) and one in 1994. The KWC men's golf team won its only GLVC championship in 1983. The KWC men's basketball team has won 13 GLVC championships. This Kentucky -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . NCAA Men%27s Division II Basketball Championship The NCAA Division II men's basketball tournament (officially styled by
189-703: The NCAA as a "Championship" instead of a "Tournament") is an annual championship tournament for colleges and universities that are members of NCAA Division II , a grouping of schools in the United States (plus one school in Canada ) that are generally smaller than the higher-profile institutions grouped in Division I . The tournament, originally known as the NCAA College Division Basketball Championship ,
210-407: The air is generally made available for free via separate streams, as are a limited number of NFL national telecasts; the remainder requires a Paramount+ (formerly CBS All Access) subscription to be viewed online, with CBS Sports Network programming requiring a TV Everywhere subscription.) On August 31, 2013, CBS Sports rolled out its previous graphics and animation package that was first used in
231-502: The day. In addition to carriage on terrestrial stations, CBS Sports Radio streamed its programming on the internet. CBS issued a cease and desist order in early April 2024 to all remaining affiliates informing them to cease using the CBS trademark by April 15 (CBS Radio had merged with Entercom in 2017 and CBS/Paramount Global has allowed use of the CBS name and Eyemark logo under a limited license to expire in late 2037; it withdrew permission for
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#1733085583570252-411: The eight NCAA-designated regions (Atlantic, Central, East, Midwest, South, South Central, Southeast, and West), all but one of which contain three of the 23 Division II conferences that sponsor men's basketball. The South Central region contains only two conferences. Each regional tournament involves an appropriate number of automatic qualifiers (teams that won their respective conference tournaments), with
273-750: The final on CBS (covered as part of the NCAA March Madness package). In 2015, CBS Sports reached a long-term deal to continue broadcasting the Division II men's semi-final on CBS Sports Network through 2024. CBS Sports CBS Sports is the sports division of the American television broadcaster CBS . Its headquarters are in the CBS Building on W 52nd Street in Midtown Manhattan , New York City , with programs produced out of Studios 43 and 44 of
294-582: The four in the other two divisions. The eight survivors of regional play meet in the Elite Eight at a predetermined site. A total of 64 bids are normally available for each tournament: 23 automatic bids (awarded to the champion of each Division II all-sports conference) and 41 at-large bids. Due to COVID-19 issues, the 2020 tournament was canceled, and the 2021 tournament was reduced to 48 teams when nine all-sports conferences chose not to compete in men's basketball in 2020–21. The bids are allocated evenly among
315-488: The network as CBS Sports Network as a move to reposition the network to include mainstream sports—including coverage of minor professional sports leagues such as the Arena Football League and Major League Lacrosse , although college sports are still aired frequently by the network. CBS Sports Radio was a sports radio network that launched on September 4, 2012, with hourly sports news updates. It began offering
336-573: The network's coverage of Super Bowl XLVII . Additionally, in compliance with the Active Format Description #10 code, CBS Sports switched to a 16:9 aspect ratio letterbox presentation used for all sports programming, including the SEC on CBS and the NFL on CBS broadcasts. On November 30, 2015, CBS Sports unveiled a new rectangular logo, which premiered on-air during its coverage of Super Bowl 50 , and
357-428: The remaining participants entering via at-large bids (which are awarded regardless of conference affiliation). Schools in italics are, as of the upcoming 2024–25 Division II basketball season, no longer members of that specific conference. Source: Source: CBS Sports holds rights to the semi-final and final rounds of the Division II tournament, with the semi-final games broadcast on CBS Sports Network and
378-472: The use of the Eyemark by CBSSR at the end of 2019). Since then, Audacy has owned and operated the remnants of the network under the brand Infinity Sports Network , utilizing the name of a forerunner company, Infinity Broadcasting . On February 26, 2018, CBS Sports launched CBS Sports HQ, a 24-hour streaming sports news channel modeled after CBS News 's streaming news channel . The online arm of CBS Sports
399-519: Was established in 1957, immediately after the NCAA subdivided its member schools into the University Division (today's Division I) and College Division. It became the Division II championship in 1974, when the NCAA split the College Division into the limited- scholarship Division II and the non-scholarship Division III , and added the "Men's" designation in 1982 when the NCAA began sponsoring
420-903: Was fulfilling its commitments to the final year of competition for its other sports in the GLVC as a full member for the 2012–13 school year; before beginning competition as a full G-MAC member). They also competed in the Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (KIAC; now currently known as the River States Conference (RSC) since the 2016–17 school year) of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) from 1916–17 to 1954–55. Kentucky Wesleyan's athletic teams have won eighteen (18) Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) championships. The KWC softball team won as total of four GLVC Championships, three in
441-410: Was intended to provide consistency between the division's platforms. It replaced an existing logo that had dated back to 1981. In October 2020, CBS announced that all of its major divisions would adopt a unified branding scheme built around the components of the CBS eye logo, a new sonic branding , and TT Norms Pro as a corporate typeface. The implementation of the branding by CBS Sports launched during
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