PC Men’s Basketball Releases 2007-08 Schedule

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CLINTON, S.C. – Presbyterian College men’s basketball coach Gregg Nibert and PC Director of Athletics Dr. William B. “Bee” Carlton unveiled the program’s inaugural NCAA Division I men’s basketball schedule on Monday.

The 2007-08 Blue Hose men’s basketball schedule will feature contests with teams from 15 different NCAA Division I conferences including four teams that played in the NCAA Tournament and four teams represented in the NIT postseason tournament this past season.

“Our players, coaching staff and entire PC community are excited about the challenging competition that we have been able to schedule in this transition year to NCAA Division I,” Nibert remarked about the upcoming season. “Our team will be able to compete against some of the best basketball programs in the country and will gain recognition for the basketball program and for Presbyterian College in general. It will be a thrill to take our team into these national venues.”

The Blue Hose will challenge four teams from the ACC (Clemson, Georgia Tech, North Carolina State and Wake Forest), one team from the Atlantic 10 (St. Bonaventure), one team from the Big 10 in defending national runner-up Ohio State and one team from the Big 12 in Nebraska.

PC will also tangle on the hardwood with one team from the Big West (UC Davis), two teams from Conference USA (Central Florida and Tulsa), one team from the Horizon League (Wright State), one team from the Mountain West (New Mexico) and two teams from the WAC (Fresno State and San Jose State).

The Blue Hose men’s basketball team will face off against Army of the Patriot League, the SoCon’s Western Carolina and Auburn and Georgia out of the SEC. PC will also take on the Sun Belt’s South Alabama and the West Coast Conference’s Loyola Marymount.

PC will also play four teams from the Big South conference in preparation for the beginning of conference play in the 2008-2009 campaign. PC will play the Big South’s Coastal Carolina, Liberty, Winthrop and will host Radford in a home contest on Saturday, Dec. 1.

The Radford game will be the first of six home games for the Blue Hose in the 2007-08 season.  PC will also host on Army Tuesday, Jan. 8 and will close out their home slate with non-Division I opponents Montreat, Allen, Emmanuel and Carver Bible College.

The design of PC’s first NCAA Division I schedule was three-fold.

The primary reason for the schedule was to reward PC’s four seniors in Drew Biggs (Alpharetta, Ga.), Pat Kiscaden (Oviedo, Fla.), Ryan Lamb (Hiram, Ga.) and Martynas Versinskas (Kaunas, Lithuania) with trips to their home towns to play in front of family and friends.

Contests against Georgia and Georgia Tech will take Biggs and Lamb home to play in the state of Georgia.

The team will take on Central Florida in Kiscaden’s hometown of Orlando and Versinskas will return to Winston-Salem, N.C. where he attended high school when the Blue Hose travel to take on Wake Forest in January.

Trips to Ohio State and Wright State will also allow Nibert, an Ohio native, to return to his home state of Ohio to compete.

The coaching staff also wanted to schedule some of the top competition in the country to gain national exposure and revenue for Presbyterian College and the athletic department.

PC opens its season at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 10 in Lincoln, Neb. against the Nebraska Cornhuskers followed by Big South foe Radford at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 14.  The Blue Hose then leave for New Mexico on Friday, Nov. 16 to play in the BTI Invitational in Albuquerque, N.M.  

The NCAA Division I Tournament will feature PC, New Mexico, St. Bonaventure and Loyola Marymount.

Major highlights of the season include a trip to Columbus, Ohio to take on defending national runner-up Ohio State and a week long trip to California after exams where the Blue Hose will face UC Davis, Fresno State and San Jose State. 

Another exciting stretch begins after the Christmas holidays as PC plays University of Georgia on Dec. 30, Wake Forest on Jan. 2, NC State on Jan. 5 and Georgia Tech on Jan. 6.

PC closes out its season with games at Tulsa on Saturday, Feb. 23 and at South Alabama on Monday, Feb. 25.

Presbyterian College is coming off a 2006-07 season in which they posted a 20-9 record to finish with two consecutive 20-win seasons after posting a 25-9 mark in the 2005-06 campaign. The 2007-08 season will be the first for the Blue Hose at the NCAA Division I level. 

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