NCAA Basketball - Big Ten Conference

Scanner frequencies for NCAA Big Ten Basketball games

Major sporting events such as NCAA Big Ten basketball games draw thousands of fans to campus for each home game. These games provide great scanning opportunities as there is a wide variety of radio usage related to the games including arena operations, parking, police, fire/ems, towing, shuttle buses, media, etc. This page serves to display the local trunked systems and frequencies where these game related operations occur on one single page.

This page is by no means complete and local listeners are encouraged to add or correct any of the information presented here.

The University of Illinois information is complete but the rest is simply what could be ascertained by viewing the Radioreference.com forums, the Radioreference.com database, and other scanning websites. Some information is just a suggested list of scanner targets until more accurate radio usage can be determined.

For frequency information regarding the Big Ten Network, see the Big Ten Network Radioreference.com wiki page.

Illinois

Assembly Hall (Website)

464.5250 (100.0 PL) Assembly Hall - Main Operations
463.3500 (DCS506) Assembly Hall - Security
As of Fall 2007, U of I PD now exclusively uses the MDICE TRS TG 22503 "INCIDENT 4" for events at the Assembly Hall. They don't use 453.250 (118.8) at all for Assembly Hall details anymore.

Note: Most of the Assembly Hall details during the 2007-2008 season have been on INCIDENT 4 and a few on INCIDENT 1 with no apparent reason why one was used versus the other.

Big Ten Center (Park Ridge-Chicago)

WPUP497 464.5000 Mobile (Itinerant Nationwide)
WPUP497 467.8500, 467.8750, 467.9000 - Chicago (Cook) and Indianapolis (Indiana)
- Whether these frequencies are ever used for basketball games is unclear.

Iowa

Police use the Iowa City Motorola TRS. The University of Iowa is licensed for many 453 MHz frequencies so a quick search through them may find some game related activity.

Michigan

University of Michigan System 800 MHz Motorola
Ann Arbor-Washtenaw County TRS
460.45000 (203.5) Special Events

Michigan State

Breslin Student Events Center '"`UNIQ--freqsubcat-00000000-QINU`"' Athletics Department '"`UNIQ--freqsubcat-00000001-QINU`"'

For public safety, listen to the Ingham County UHF EDACS TRS.

It wouldn't hurt to monitor the Michigan State University 800 MHz Motorola Type II TRS. Special event parking is listed in the Radioreference database as being on 462.600 (162.2), {which interestingly is a GRMS frequency}.

Northwestern

Northwestern University 900 MHz Motorola TRS
Frequencies:

Site	Name	Freqs
001 (1)	Simulcast	936.425000	936.437500c	936.500000	938.387500	938.400000c	938.412500c

Northwestern University Police is listed as using TG 144 for primary dispatch. Other talkgroups related to the games include TG 336.

Ohio State

The Ohio State University 800 MHz Motorola Type II TRS

Frequencies:

Site	Name	Freqs
001 (1)	Ohio State Univ.	854.137500	854.237500	854.562500	854.687500	857.062500c	857.537500c	858.462500c	859.762500c

Schottenstein Center Talkgroups:

DEC	HEX	Mode	Alpha Tag	Description
6480	195	A	SCHT-1	Parking
6512	197	A	SCHT-2	Dispatch/guest services
6544	199	A	SCHT-3	First Aid
6576	19b	A	SCHT-4	Custodians
6608	19d	A	SCHT-5	Security
6640	19f	A	SCHT-6	Operations
6672	1a1	A	SCHT-7	Event Fire/EMS

Athletics talkgroups:

DEC	HEX	Mode	Alpha Tag	Description
5712	165	A	ATHL-1	Athletics Dept (game day parking)
5744	167	A	ATHL-2	Athletics Dept
9616	259	A	OSU Crowd	Athletics Dept (Stadium seating)

OSU PD Talkgroups:

DEC	HEX	Mode	Alpha Tag	Description
4016	0fb	A	DPS-1	Police special events / common
4048	0fd	A	DPS-2	Police special events / common
4080	0ff	A	DPS-3	Police special events / common
4112	101	A	P-4	Police - as needed
4144	103	A	P-5	Police - as needed
4176	105	A	P-6	Police Supervisors
4208	107	A	DPS-4	Police special events / common
4240	109	A	TP-1	Traffic & Parking
4272	10b	A	TP-2	Traffic & Parking
4304	10d	A	TP-3	Traffic & Parking
4336	10f	A	TP-4	Traffic & Parking
4656	123	A	SFP-1	Security/Fire Prevention (patrol)
4688	125	A	SFP-2	Security/Fire Prevention (alarms)
4720	127	A	SFP-3	Security/Fire Prevention
4752	129	A	SFP-4	Security/Fire Prevention
4784	12b	A	SSS-1	Student Safety Services (foot patrol)
5200	145	A	CCCP-1	Campus Community Crime Patrol
5360	14f	A	SSS-2	Student Safety Services (escorts)
5808	16b	A	UAPD-1	Upper Arlington PD backup
5840	16d	A	UAPD-2	Upper Arlington PD backup
7344	1cb	A	SO EVT 1	Sheriff event channel 1
7376	1cd	A	SO EVT 2	Sheriff event channel 2
8016	1f5	A	CFD-1	Columbus Fire campus events
8208	201	A	P-1	Police dispatch
8240	203	A	P-2	Police operations
8272	205	A	P-3	Police operations
8720	221	A	MEDICS	OSU Medics

Penn State

Pennsylvania State University 800 MHz Motorola Type II TRS

System Frequencies:

Site	Name	Freqs
001 (1)	Primary	854.012500	855.237500	856.262500	856.712500	857.262500c	858.262500c	859.262500c	860.262500c

Bryce Jordan Center Talkgroups

2160 Ch. 1
2192 Ch. 2
2224 Ch. 3 - Seating
2256 Ch. 4 - Admissions
2288 Ch. 5
2320 Ch. 6
2352 Ch. 7

Penn State University PD Talkgroups

1136 University - Police Dispatch (4xxx units)
1008 University - Police Parking Enforcement
688 University - Police Tactical
752 University - Police Traffic Operations
80 University - Police unk (mention Tac)

Purdue

Events Channel Utilization (Purdue Sporting Events)
EVENT 1 Fire/EMS Detail
EVENT 2 Law Enforcement Details
EVENT 3 Maintenance/Custodial Details, Purdue Grand Prix
EVENT 4 Purdue Staff Details
EVENT 5 Assigned as needed
EVENT 6 Assigned as needed
EVENT 7 Assigned as needed
EVENT 8 Assigned as needed

Several of the Purdue Services talkgroups are utilized to support operations during sporting events.

Tippecanoe County Public Safety 800 MHz Motorola TRS

Site	Name	Freqs

Public Safety Mutual Aid Talkgroups

Description

Purdue University Police Talkgroups

Description

Purdue University Fire Talkgroups

Description

Purdue University Services Talkgroups

Description

Wisconsin

Madison Area Public Safety 800 MHz Motorola Type II TRS