> >The 1989 Championship game was the first to be broadcast nationally on > ESPN. > I beg to differ. > I can't remember what year it was, but I seem to recall watching the > NCAA championship game when Bowling Green won it all. That was in the > early-to-mid eighties, and I was in South Carolina at the time, so I'm > positive it was on ESPN. Once upon a time, USA was a cable sports network (and EPSN was ENTERTAINMENT Sports Programing Network), and I am sure that USA carried one (maybe more) NCAA Hockey championship games. It *might* have been from Providence? --david