NCAA.com Launches in Time for Madness

NEW YORK, March 10 /PRNewswire/ -- CBS College Sports Network (formerly CSTV), an official Online Interactive sports partner of the NCAA, today announced the launch of the new home of NCAA sports on the Web, NCAA.com.

NCAA.com will offer users the broadest and deepest coverage of NCAA athletics on the Internet, providing the latest news and commentary on men's and women's sports across all three NCAA divisions. NCAA.com also will be the home to the greatest collection of both live and archived video of collegiate sporting events on the web, allowing users around the world the ability to view their favorite NCAA sports on both a live and on-demand basis. Video will include coverage of the Division I Men's Basketball Championship as well as the 87 other NCAA championships.

Additionally, NCAA.com will tap into the vast database of NCAA statistics, giving fans access to hundreds of statistical categories and breakdowns of their favorite sport by individual, institution, league/conference or division.

"Users will quickly recognize that NCAA.com offers everything that fans of NCAA athletics are looking for, whether it be video, news, statistics or interaction with a community of dedicated NCAA sports fanatics," said Greg Shaheen, Senior Vice President for Basketball and Business Strategies at the NCAA.

NCAA March Madness on Demand, a CBSSports.com and CBS Sports production, will be available at NCAA.com (mmod.ncaa.com) and, for the first time, will give users the ability to view the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship, from the first round of the tournament through the Men's Final Four(R) in San Antonio.

NCAA.com replaces ncaasports.com, the Association's fan website produced by CBSSports.com since 2003.

About the NCAA

The NCAA is a membership-led nonprofit association of colleges and universities committed to supporting academic and athletics opportunities for more than 380,000 student-athletes at more than 1,000 member colleges and universities. Each year, more than 54,000 student-athletes compete in NCAA championships in Divisions I, II and III sports. Visit www.ncaa.org and www.ncaa.com for more details about the Association, its goals and members and corporate partnerships that help support programs for student-athletes.

The NCAA is proud to have the following elite companies as official Corporate Champions -- AT&T, Coca-Cola and Pontiac -- and the following elite companies as official Corporate Partners -- DiGiorno, Enterprise, The Hartford, Lowe's, Sheraton and State Farm.

NCAA, Final Four, and March Madness are trademarks owned or licensed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association.