Feb. 1, 2010

EVANSTON, Ill. -- The next generation of Big Ten football stars will sign National Letters of Intent on Wednesday, and the Big Ten Network will air a 90-minute show at 3 p.m. CT that day to reveal which prep standouts will attend Big Ten universities.

Northwestern head coach Pat Fitzgerald will be featured on the program, which will include video highlights of top recruits, university press conferences, one-on-one interviews with Big Ten head coaches and expert recruiting analysis from Scout.com.

Additionally, Northwestern's signing day news conference will stream live on NUSports.com Wednesday. The news conference is scheduled to begin at 12 p.m. CT and can be viewed exclusively through Wildcats All Access.

The Big Ten Network Signing Day Special will feature host Dave Revsine, analysts Gerry DiNardo, Howard Griffith, Chris Martin and Glen Mason as well as Scout.com national recruiting expert Allen Trieu reviewing each school's recruiting class and evaluating how each team filled its most pressing roster needs.

The Football Signing Day Special will re-air at 10:30 p.m. CT on Wednesday as well as at 8:30 a.m. CT on Thursday.

About the Big Ten Network: The Big Ten Network is the first internationally distributed network dedicated to covering one of the premier collegiate conferences in the country. With approximately 350 live events, and nearly all of them in HD, the network is the ultimate destination for Big Ten fans and alumni across the country, allowing them to see their favorite teams, regardless of where they live. The network operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, showcasing a wide array of classic-to-current sports and televising more Olympic sporting events and women's sports than has ever been aired on any other network. Original programming highlights activities and accomplishments of some of the nation's finest universities. Each year, the network offers between 35 and 40 football games, 105 regular season men's basketball games; 55 women's basketball games; dozens of Big Ten Championship events; studio shows; coaches' shows; and classic games. Available to all cable and satellite providers nationwide and in Canada, the network currently has agreements with more than 300 affiliates, including AT&T U-Verse, Atlantic Broadband, Cablevision, Charter, Comcast, Cox (Cleveland, Arizona, Arkansas, Kansas, Omaha), DirecTV, DISH Network, Insight, Mediacom, Rogers Cable (Canada), Shaw Cable and Shaw Direct (Canada), Time Warner Cable and Verizon FiOS. For updated information on the Big Ten Network, go to www.BigTenNetwork.com.

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