Basketball Notes

Is it too early to start talking basketball? Oh well, I made my plane reservations to Durham, N.C. yesterday, so it’s on my mind.

First things first, the UC Davis-Georgia Southern game on Nov. 12 in the first round of the College Basketball Experience Classic will be televised on ESPNU. I don’t personally know anyone who gets ESPNU at home, but that probably means it will be around on TV (I’m thinking the Grad here). According to the ESPN schedule, the game starts at 3 p.m. PT. The winners’ bracket game in this pod is slated for 4 p.m. Monday on ESPN2. The Aggies will not return to campus after the tournament, heading directly to El Paso to play UTEP and then up to Oregon to take on Portland.

On a slightly more logistical note, both UCD teams are talking about switching to the opposite bench this year. Among other reasons, this would be done to avoid having the home and visiting teams criss-cross on the court on the way to locker rooms. There haven’t been any problems in my three basketball season with the paper, but there could be. And for those who care about how they get their news, we are also, apparently, losing the nifty little media room that sports information had set up underneath the stands behind press row. That will now be offices.

Practice starts next weekend. It’s hard to believe