For Immediate Release
Wednesday, June 5, 2019
NSIC Media Relations
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BURNSVILLE, Minn.  - The Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) is excited to announce a continued expanded partnership with Midco Sports Network® during the 2019-20 academic.  MidcoSN will air 10 NSIC football games, 18 NSIC regular season and 14 tournament basketball games and seven NSIC volleyball tournament matches for a total of 49 live events on MidcoSN this coming academic year. 

The partnership will continue the “NSIC Thursday Night Football Game of the Week”, airing the first four weeks of the season from September 5 through September 26, with the other six football games airing on Saturdays.

During the basketball season MidcoSN will broadcast nine doubleheaders and continue its full coverage of the NSIC/Sanford Health Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournaments.  All fourteen games of the tournament played at the Sanford Pentagon along with the nine doubleheaders will add up to 32 live basketball contests produced and aired live on MidcoSN.

New this season, MidcoSN will air all seven matches of the NSIC Volleyball Tournament that will be played at the Sanford Pentagon on November 22-24.  
“MidcoSN continues to be a tremendous supporter of the NSIC, and we are thrilled to be able to continue to grow our partnership, exposing the region to our first-class institutions and incredible student-athletes that compete in the NSIC,” said NSIC Commissioner Erin Lind.

“MidcoSN is pleased to continue our partnership with the NSIC.  Their dedication to student-athlete performance matches our desire to share their excellence on the competitive platform and we are excited to share this live NSIC content with fans across the region,” said Mark Powell, VP of MidcoSN.

For the past five years, the NSIC and MidcoSN have partnered to broadcast numerous live and taped-delayed regular season and tournament contests from various NSIC sports.

About the NSIC
The NSIC is a 16-team, 18-sport, NCAA Division II conference with teams located in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota.  The mission of the NSIC is to promote, conduct and regulate competitive sports programs which will assist student-athletes in their successful athletic, academic and person development.

About Midco Sports Network
Midco Sports Network provides live coverage of local sporting events and produces award-winning original sports programming. Since 2010, MidcoSN has delivered the sights and sounds of high school, collegiate, outdoors, motorsports and more to homes and businesses across the Upper Midwest. Visit MidcoSN.com to catch up on the action and check out blogs from the MidcoSN team.
 

2019 NSIC/MidcoSN Football Game Schedule
Date	Day	Away Team	Home Team	Facility	Time^
9/5/2019	Thursday	MSU Moorhead	Minnesota Crookston	Ed Widseth Field	7 p.m.
9/7/2019	Saturday	Upper Iowa	Augustana	Kirkeby Over Stadium	1 p.m.
9/12/2019	Thursday	UMary	Bemidji State	Chet Anderson Stadium	7 p.m.
9/19/2019	Thursday	Upper Iowa	Winona State	Maxwell Field	7 p.m.
9/26/2019	Thursday	Augustana	Sioux Falls	Bob Young Field	6 p.m.
9/28/2019	Saturday	UMary	MSU Moorhead	Scheels Field at Nemzek Stadium	1 p.m.
9/28/2019	Saturday	Minnesota Duluth	Bemidji State	Chet Anderson Stadium	4 p.m.
10/12/2019	Saturday	Minnesota State	Northern State	Swisher Field	2:30 p.m.
10/19/2019	Saturday	Minnesota Duluth	Sioux Falls	Bob Young Field	1 p.m.
11/2/2019	Saturday	Concordia-St. Paul	Augustana	Kirkeby Over Stadium	1 p.m.
2019 NSIC/MidcoSN Volleyball Schedule (NSIC Tournament)
Date	Day	Away Team	Home State	Facility	Time^
11/22-24/19	Thurs-Sat.	*NSIC Tournament		Sanford Pentagon
2019-20 NSIC/MidcoSN Basketball Schedule (MBB & WBB Doubleheaders)
Date	Day	Away Team	Home State	Facility	Time^
12/6/2019	Friday	Winona State	Augustana	Sanford Pentagon	5:30/7:30 p.m.
12/13/2019	Friday	St. Cloud State	SMSU	R/A Facility	5:30/7:30 p.m.
12/7/2019	Saturday	Upper Iowa	Augustana	Sanford Pentagon	TBD
1/10/2020	Friday	Concordia-St. Paul	SMSU	R/A Facility	5:30/7:30 p.m.
12/21/2019	Saturday	Wayne State	Augustana	Sanford Pentagon	TBD
1/17/2020	Friday	Northern State	Augustana	Sanford Pentagon	5:30/7:30 p.m.
1/31/2020	Friday	Minot State	Augustana	Sanford Pentagon	5:30/7:30 p.m.
2/1/2020	Saturday	Minnesota State	Northern State	Wachs Arena	TBD
2/21/2020	Friday	Augustana	Sioux Falls	Stewart Center	5:30/7:30 p.m.
2/29-3/3/20	Sat.-Tues.	*NSIC/Sanford Health Tournament		Sanford Pentagon
*Quarterfinals, semifinals and champions games played at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, S.D.