Jan. 9, 2009

Center Valley, Pa. - Veteran broadcasters Bob Socci, John Feinstein and Leah Secondo will return for another season of Patriot League basketball telecasts on ESPNU. Socci and Feinstein enter their sixth season together calling Patriot League men's basketball contests, while Socci and Secondo are in their fifth season as the women's basketball analyst duo.

The trio will handle the call for the Patriot League's television broadcasts on the ESPNU network. The package includes six regular-season contests for men's basketball and two games, including the League Championship, for women's basketball.

Socci returns for his sixth season of doing play-by-play for both the men's and women's broadcasts. He recently completed his 12th season handling the play-by-play duties for Navy football. In addition to calling the Mids' games, Socci also broadcasts baseball for the Triple-A Norfolk Tides. He was recently married to Dr. Monique Tello and is now living in Quincy, Mass.

Feinstein enters his seventh season as the color commentator for Patriot League men's basketball. He wears many hats aside from his Patriot League hardwood duties; including sports writer for The Washington Post, author of numerous best sellers, commentator on National Public Radio's Morning Edition and is a part of Navy football's game day broadcast team. Feinstein's The Last Amateurs chronicled the 1999-2000 Patriot League men's basketball campaign with first-hand accounts of the student-athletes who competed in the League that season.

Secondo is back for her fifth year of serving as the Patriot League's women's basketball color analyst. She has been involved in freelance ventures including: Connecticut Sun Radio/TV Color Analyst; Sports Anchor/Reporter WWSB-TV, Sarasota, FL; Women's College Basketball On-Air Talent: Fox Sports Net, NESN and ESPN Regional. Secondo was honored with an Associated Press award in 2007 for Best Sportscast in Florida Large Market Division.

The Patriot League basketball schedule tips off this weekend with all eight schools on the men's and women's side playing their League openers on Saturday. The men's slate on ESPNU begins when Bucknell visits Navy on Saturday at 5 p.m.