Wednesday, May 30, 2001
UC packs early schedule with home games
By Michael Perry
The Cincinnati Enquirer
The University of Cincinnati's tentative 2001-02 schedule has the Bearcats playing their first eight games in town — seven at Shoemaker Center and the Skyline Chili Crosstown Shootout at Xavier's Cintas Center.
The Bearcats' schedule is not finalized. Several contracts have not been returned, and national TV games have not been set, assistant coach Dan Peters said. So mark all this down in pencil.
The beginning of the regular season looks like this: Nov.20 Wright State, Nov.24 UNLV, Nov.28 Dayton, Dec.1 Duquesne, Dec.8 Coppin State, Dec.10 Toledo, Dec.15 at Xavier, Dec.17 Richmond.
The Richmond game is technically the first round of the eight-team Las Vegas Invitational, which begins on college campuses and continues at the Paris Hotel's Grand Ballroom in Las Vegas (Dec.20-22).
The field: UC, Purdue, Illinois-Chicago, Texas A&M, Southwest Missouri State, Louisiana-Monroe, Mississippi State and Richmond, said Chris Spencer, director of Worldwide Basketball, which has organized the tournament.
UC is scheduled to play Dec.29 at the Rock-N-Roll Shootout in Cleveland against a yet-to-be-named opponent.
The Bearcats' other nonconference opponents are Temple and Wake Forest, now coached by Skip Prosser. Both games are scheduled to be on national TV, and dates have not been set, Peters said.
Cincinnati also has agreed to exhibition games against Northern Kentucky and Kentucky Wesleyan, the Division II national champion.
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