March 2, 2007

North Charleston, S.C. - Top seed Western Carolina will face the fifth-seeded Georgia Southern Lady Eagles in the first of two semifinal match-ups on Friday in the 2007 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Championships at the North Charleston Coliseum. Tip-off is scheduled for Noon.

Fans can follow all of the action from the Catamount Sports Network on WWCU-FM, Power 90dot5 in Cullowhee, or online at www.CatamountSports.com. Air time is 11:45 am with Daniel Hooker and Steven Crumpler on the call. Fans can also find live stats and streaming audio/video by logging onto www.SoConSports.com or SoCon.tv.

All four games from Friday's semifinals on both the men's and women's side will be televised. The women's games will be aired on Comcast/Charter Sports Southeast (CSS). Additional stations carrying the broadcast include: WGSR-TV 39 in Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point, N.C.; WMYW-TV 47 in Wilmington, N.C.; WDRL-TV 24, Roanoke-Lynchburg, Va.; and WYAT-TV 40 in Martinsville, Va.

Western (22-8) split with Georgia Southern during the regular season, with the Lady Eagles snapping the Lady Catamounts' 10-game winning streak back in mid-February. WCU enters today's game having won four-straight, including Wednesday's first round, 79-56, win over the No. 9 Furman Lady Paladins.

Georgia Southern (13-17) has won four of its last five games, upsetting th fourth-seeded UNC Greensboro Spartans on Thursday morning to advance in tournament play.

WCU is 1-1 all-time versus Georgia Southern in the SoCon tournament, with its win coming in the thrilling double-overtime championship game back in 2005.