Toros Basketball To Be Televised on COX Cable
Men’s game vs. San Francisco State to air March 5 at 7:30 pm; women’s contest vs. Gators to follow on March 6 at 8:00 pm
March 1, 2007

Carson, CA -- Both CSUDH women’s and men’s basketball games versus visiting San Francisco State tomorrow night will be televised by COX Communications and aired on a tape-delayed basis, with the men’s game first scheduled to air on Monday, March 5 at 7:30 pm, and the women’s game to follow on Tuesday, March 6 at 8:00 pm. The games will be televised on Cox cable channel 3 serving the Palos Verdes Peninsula and southern neighborhoods of San Pedro. Cox customers in Orange County also can tune in with “Video on Demand,” found on Channel 1. For additional playback dates and times during the week, you can visit cox3.com.

Veteran sportscaster David Smock will call the play-by-play for both games. Founder and president of Radio Sports America, Smock is the voice of El Camino College football, basketball, and volleyball on Torrance Community Television (TCTV) in addition to Los Angeles Harbor College and high school football and basketball broadcasts for Cox. Also, his company was the national radio network for the 2003 New Orleans Bowl college football game.

Smock, who once was sports director at the NBC television affiliate in Billings, Montana, graduated cum laude from Pacific Lutheran University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in communication arts with an emphasis in broadcast journalism.

Working the women's contest as game analyst is former Toros basketball star, Trimeka Jackson. As a sophomore at Long Beach City College, she earned All-South Conference honors at forward for the Lady Vikings before transferring to Cal State Dominguez Hills, where she played under Girard and helped lead the Toros to a 1995 conference title and the school's first ever NCAA Division II tournament berth. Jackson currently is head coach at Long Beach City College, where she completed her third season after winning the South Coast Conference title for the second-straight year.

The CSUDH women, 14-10 overall, 11-9 in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) and seeded No.5 in the latest NCAA DII Far West Region poll released yesterday, have virtually secured a berth in the NCAA Division II postseason. Winners of two-consecutive and four of their last six games, the Toros, who look to reach the postseason for the first time since 2004-05 where they fell, 82-74 in overtime, to Western Washington, are led by juniors Brigayle Iglehart (San Diego, CA/Grossmont College) and Jessica Liang (Alhambra, CA/Mark Keppel HS), who have combined for 35% of the Toros’ points and 73% of CSUDH’s 3-pointers.

The balanced men’s squad, meanwhile, sports a 10-15 overall and 7-13 CCAA mark, and boast double-figure scorers in Shamont Brown (Jamaica, NY/Riverside CC) and Mike Steed (Antelope, CA/Center HS), with 11.3 and 10.3 respective point per game averages. Senior Trevon Bryant (Tifton, GA/Compton JC) also has been key for the Toros as the 6’9” center is just two blocks away from becoming CSUDH’s all-time career block leader after leading the conference with 42 blocks and a 1.68 bpg average.

As the fourth-largest cable provider in the nation, Cox Communications Inc. is noted for its high-capacity, reliable broadband delivery network. With more than six million customers nationwide (including more than 30,000 subscribers in the Palos Verdes / San Pedro areas and 400,000 viewers in Orange County), Cox Communications has a firm commitment to education and local sports coverage, and is widely regarded as the best in the cable industry. Last year Cox earned multiple distinctions in customer satisfaction and company strategy, including the 2006 J.D. Power and Associates residential cable/satellite TV customer satisfaction study.

(Additional information courtesy of David Smock and Cox Communications Inc.)