BOSTON — For the ninth consecutive year, NESN, New England's most watched sports network, will deliver live and exclusive high-definition coverage of the 59th annual Beanpot Hockey Tournament presented by SBLI beginning on Monday, Feb. 7. The first game pits Harvard against Northeastern at 5 p.m., followed by Boston University battling Boston College at 8 p.m. from the TD Garden. NESN's coverage of the Beanpot championship game on Monday, Feb. 14 will begin with Prelude to A Championship, a live, half-hour pregame show starting at 7:30 p.m.
Don Orsillo and Andy Brickley will call all three games, with Kathryn Tappen and Bob Beers teaming up to host Prelude to a Championship and intermission coverage from NESN's Garden studio. Naoko Funayama will serve as the rink-side reporter contributing pregame, intermission and postgame interviews.
"The Beanpot is one of the jewels on the New England sports calendar," said Joel Feld, NESN's executive vice president of programming and executive producer. "We look forward to bringing our fans the tournament and helping the schools refresh their long-standing rivalries on the ice as they battle it out for bragging rights."
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