ESPN will televise Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference basketball and Olympic sports under a two-year agreement announced this week.

Under the terms of the deal, ESPNU will televise at least seven regular-season men’s basketball games and two Olympic-sports events. This season, ESPNU will televise the men’s soccer and women’s volleyball championships and three women’s basketball games. ESPN or ESPN2 will televise two men’s basketball games each year, plus feature the men’s basketball championship game.

Additionally, the MAAC will continue to serve as the sponsoring conference of the Old Spice Classic at the Milk House at the ESPN Wide World of Sports complex. All 10 MAAC institutions will participate in the February 2010 event.

“Almost five years ago, the MAAC committed to the start-up of ESPNU, and it is gratifying to see how it has grown to a more than 60-million-home platform,” said Commissioner Richard Ensor. “The association with the ESPN brand is extremely important to the MAAC and continues with the league’s syndication and production agreement with ESPN Regional Television and the event hosting agreements.”

The agreement also calls for MAAC programming across multiple ESPN platforms, including ESPN Web sites, pay-per-view and video-on-demand.