PRINCETON, N.J. -- Duke, Marquette, Stanford and Texas Tech
will be the host schools for the opening rounds of the College
Basketball Experience Classic, formerly known as the Guardians
Classic.
The winners of the four-team regional brackets will advance to
the semifinals in Kansas City, Mo., on Nov. 20. The championship
game will be in Municipal Auditorium on Nov. 21.
The first regional bracket will be Nov. 12-13 at Durham, N.C.
with Duke playing Columbia, and Georgia Southern against Cal-Davis.
The winners and losers meet the second night.
Two sites will have games on Nov. 13-14. At Milwaukee, Marquette
hosts Idaho State, while Maine plays Detroit. At Lubbock, Texas,
Texas Tech hosts Gardner-Webb, and Arkansas-Little Rock faces
Akron.
The final regional bracket will be in Palo Alto, Calif., on Nov.
14-15, with Stanford hosting San Jose State, and Air Force meeting
Long Beach State.
The semifinals will have the Durham winner against the Palo Alto
winner, while the Milwaukee winner meets the Lubbock winner.
Texas beat Iowa 69-59 in last year's championship game.
The College Basketball Experience Classic was created to promote
the National Association of Basketball Coaches' "College
Basketball Experience" and the National Collegiate Basketball Hall
of Fame.
The Hall of Fame, which will be located in downtown Kansas City,
will induct its inaugural class of John Wooden, Oscar Robertson,
Bill Russell, Dean Smith and Dr. James Naismith on Nov. 19.
The CBE Classic is produced by the Gazelle Group.