The Carrier Classic is once again on the Westwood One Radio Network!
Westwood One Sports is proud to bring radio listeners nationwide and around the world coverage of the 2012 Carrier Classic, which will tip off the NCAA Basketball season TONIGHT from the flight deck of the U.S.S. Yorktown at Patriots Point in Charleston, South Carolina.
The special doubleheader begins at 3:45 PM Eastern with the women of Notre Dame taking on the women of Ohio State. John Tautges will handle play-by-play duties and Debbie Antonelli will be the color analyst. In the men’s game, the Buckeyes of Ohio State face the Golden Eagles of Marquette. Kevin Kugler and Bill Frieder will have all the action beginning at 6:45 PM Eastern.
Both games of the 2012 Carrier Classic will be heard on radio stations nationwide, as well as on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio and streaming online, for free, right here on WestwoodOneSports.com.
Westwood One’s presentation of the 2012 Carrier Classic will also be heard on the American Forces Radio Network, which provides programming to America’s military forces around the globe. The American Forces Radio Network serves more than one million men and women in uniform, Department of Defense personnel, American embassies, and consulates in over 175 countries and territories–as well as on more than 250 U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast Guard and Military Sealift Command ships at sea.
For more information about this year’s Carrier Classic, log on to CarrierClassic.org. For photos and additional content, head to facebook.com/CarrierClassic.
Scenes from last year's Carrier Classic
Postgame Interviews: Coaches Thad Matta and Buzz Williams and more
After the cancellation of the 2012 Carrier Classic game between Marquette and Ohio State, due to condensation on the court, our Debbie Antonelli had a chance to speak with Buckeyes head coach Thad Matta and Golden Eagles… Read More »PHOTO GALLERY: The 2012 Carrier Classic
[nggallery id=14] Check out these images from the 2012 Carrier Classic. Read More »Carrier Classic Highlights: Notre Dame 57 – Ohio State 51
CHARLESTON, SC — In the first women’s college basketball game ever played on an aircraft carrier, Notre Dame defeated Ohio State 57-51 aboard the USS Yorktown. Natalie Achonwa scored 17 points and grabbed 10 rebounds for the Irish, while Kayla McBride added 16 points in the victory. Tayler Hill led… Read More »Danielle Green’s Interview with Debbie Antonelli
CHARLESTON, SC — Former Notre Dame basketball player Danielle Green, who lost part of her left arm in a combat injury in 2004 while on duty in Iraq, was on hand at Friday’s Carrier Classic. At halftime of the game between Notre Dame and Ohio State, our Debbie Antonelli had… Read More »Carrier Classic Interviews: Thad Matta and Buzz Williams with Bill Frieder
Ohio State and Marquette tip off the 2012 NCAA Basketball season tonight on the flight deck of the USS Yorktown in Charleston, South Carolina in the 2012 Carrier Classic. Ahead of the game, our Bill Frieder had a chance to speak with the head coaches of the Buckeyes and the… Read More »PHOTO GALLERY: 2012 Carrier Classic Practices
[nggallery id=13] Check out these images from practice day at the 2012 Carrier Classic. Read More »Full Interview: President Obama at the Carrier Classic
The President discussed the Penn State scandal, Veterans Day, payment to NCAA student-athletes and much more...Boxed Out: Bill Frieder on the Carrier Classic and Coach K
I can’t begin to tell you how honored I was to be on the USS Carl Vinson last weekend to broadcast North Carolina versus Michigan State in the Carrier Classic on Westwood One Sports. Just walking up the four flights of stairs to the flight deck was an experience. I… Read More »