RE: Basketball Schedule

[Shinkle, Randy]

Here's an update, based on this article in Sunday's Enquirer:

    http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/05/02/spt_hoopscol02.html

The Las Vegas Holiday Classic (LVHC) will likely involve 2 rounds at
campus sites, followed by 2 rounds in Las Vegas on December 30 and 31.
This may allow UC to play 2 home games as part of the tournament, one of
which could be the Valparaiso game, since they are now reported to be
participating in the tournament (as are Penn and Longwood).

The article also points out that UC's agreement with NKU is in fact for
exhibition games, not regular season games.  So, the new information
leads to this tentative list of OOC UC homes games:

    Detroit-Mercy
    Miami (at USBank Arena)
    Wake Forest
    Xavier
    LVHC round 1
    LVHC round 2
    2 others (one is Valparaiso, if not part of LVHC)
    2 exhibitions (one is NKU)

Randy '78



-----Original Message-----
From: Shinkle, Randy 
Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 11:16 AM
To: address@hidden
Subject: [UC Basketball] Basketball Schedule


Based on several sources, including recent information from UCATS and an
article in today's Post
(http://www.cincypost.com/2004/04/23/uchoop04-23-2004.html), the
upcoming UC men's basketball schedule is looking like this:


C-USA home games:  Charlotte, DePaul, Houston, Louisville, Marquette,
Southern Miss, Tulane, UAB

OOC home games:  Detroit-Mercy, Miami (at USBank Arena), Northern
Kentucky, Valparaiso, Wake Forest, Xavier, plus 2 others (and 2
exhibitions)


C-USA road games:  Charlotte, DePaul, East Carolina, Louisville,
Memphis, Saint Louis, South Florida, TCU

OOC road/neutral games:  Dayton, Purdue (at Indianapolis), Las Vegas
tournament


The Las Vegas tournament could be 3 or 4 games, but it only counts as 1
toward the schedule limit of 27.  If it's 4 games, one of them will
probably be a UC home game (a la Richmond in 2001), which frees one up
for another road or neutral court game.  The other teams believed to be
in the same Las Vegas tournament are Central Connecticut State, Chicago
State, Illinois, Northwestern State, Oklahoma State, Vanderbilt and one
unknown.

I'm hoping to see one of the remaining home games be the beginning of a
home-and-home with another BCS conference school.  Texas or Texas Tech
might be a good choice, since UC has had such a recruiting presence in
Texas, but an ACC team (perhaps continuing the series with Wake Forest)
would work as well.  I'd even be willing to accept Kentucky or Ohio
State on the schedule.  ;-)

Randy '78