News and Notes

[Dish]

All of this from Katz's blog, concerning BE teams & scheduling for this year.

-Georgetown coach John Thompson III said the Hoyas will resume their series with Duke, which had a year off in the contract this past season, starting in Durham next season. He said the Orlando Old Spice Classic that he signed up for last week with Gonzaga, Michigan State, Tennessee, Oklahoma State, Siena, Wichita State and Maryland will be a good gauge for "where we are. That's what I wanted."

I can't recall the reason we dropped out of the Old Spice Classic next year, but I'd much rather be in this field than in the Chicago Invitational. I realize Tennessee is in this field, but we certainly could have played someone else in the Big East/SEC challenge, or postponed the game a year.

-Wright said the Wildcats are still in flux with their schedule. He said Villanova is trying to work a home-and-home with North Carolina, starting in Chapel Hill. He has also talked about the Jimmy V Classic in New York with a possible Davidson matchup. Wright said the Wildcats are in a tournament at the Palestra, too, with Penn State, Rhode Island and Hartford as some of the teams, and of course the Wildcats have the Big Five schedule with Saint Joe's, Temple, LaSalle and Penn.

-Brey isn't about to add too much more to the nonconference schedule with a road trip to UCLA in February and the Maui Invitational (North Carolina, Texas, Oregon, Indiana, Saint Joseph's, Alabama and Chaminade). Brey said he has been contacted about participating in the Hall of Fame game in Indianapolis at the Colts' stadium but hasn't decided if he wants to do that yet. The other teams Brey said he was told are under consideration are Gonzaga, Indiana, USC and Oklahoma State for the double-header.

-West Virginia coach Bob Huggins said he anticipates junior Joe Alexander will go all the way to the withdrawal deadline (June 16) before making a decision on whether to return. The Mountaineers' headline games are in Las Vegas at a tournament with the projected teams (assuming they get out of their host sites with two easy wins) -- Kentucky, Kansas State and Iowa. Huggins said he also signed up for a home-and-home with good friend and former assistant Andy Kennedy of Ole Miss, with the series starting in Oxford next season.

[Ready2Fly]

All of this from Katz's blog, concerning BE teams & scheduling for this year.

-Brey isn't about to add too much more to the nonconference schedule with a road trip to UCLA in February and the Maui Invitational (North Carolina, Texas, Oregon, Indiana, Saint Joseph's, Alabama and Chaminade). Brey said he has been contacted about participating in the Hall of Fame game in Indianapolis at the Colts' stadium but hasn't decided if he wants to do that yet. The other teams Brey said he was told are under consideration are Gonzaga, Indiana, USC and Oklahoma State for the double-header.

I can't wait to watch Indiana get slaughtered against that field.

[The Man in Gold]

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