2009 Field Completed

O'REILLY AUTO PARTS CBE CLASSIC FIELD COMPLETED
ESPN Family of Networks to Televise 10 Tournament Games

Princeton, N.J. – The 12-team field, schedule and television coverage for the O'Reilly Auto Parts CBE Classic men's college basketball tournament has been completed.

Texas, Pittsburgh, Wichita State and Iowa will serve as the four Regional Round hosts for the event. The tournament will begin with Regional Round action, November 15-19, with the four host schools automatically advancing to the Championship Rounds at Sprint Center in Kansas City on November 23-24. The Cullowhee and Richmond subregional rounds will be held on November 23-25.

A total of ten games will be televised on the ESPN family of networks. ESPN2 will televise the first Pittsburgh Regional Round game on November 17th, both Championship Round doubleheaders on November 23rd and the Championship game on November 24th. The consolation game on November 24th will be televised on ESPNU. ESPNU will also televise all four games from the Iowa City and Austin Regional Rounds, along with the first Wichita Regional Round game on November 15th.

Outlined below are the dates, times, locations, match-ups and television coverage for the tournament.

Click HERE for a complete tournament bracket (all times listed are EST).

Texas returns four starters from a team that went 23-12 last season.

Pittsburgh ranks among the nation's top-5 programs in winning percentage (.788) over the last eight seasons.

Wichita State will look to build upon last year's succesful postseason appearance in the College Basketball Invitational (CBI).

Iowa returns six letterwinners, including two of the top four scorers.

Arkansas Monticello reached the second round of their conference tournament and finished
20-9 last season.

Binghamton captured the 2008-09 America East regular-season and tournament champhioships.

Duquesne ranks as the nation's fifth highest-scoring team (79.8 ppg) in three seasons under Ron Everhart.

Eastern Kentucky has tallied at least 10 conference wins each season under fifth year head coach Jeff Neubauer.

Fairleigh Dickinson welcomes new head coach Greg Vetrone.

UC Irvine welcomes the return of last season's two leading scorers, Eric Wise (14 ppg) and Michael Hunter (11.9 ppg).

UTSA welcomes back 10 letterwinners, including three starters, from a team that went 19-13.

Western Carolina returns 6 players that started 12 or more games after posting its first winning season since 1996 (16-15).

TICKET INFORMATION: Championship Round tickets are currently ON SALE and can be purchased by visiting Ticketmaster.com or calling Ticketmaster at 800-745-3000.

In the 2008 O'Reilly Auto Parts CBE Classic Championship Game, Syracuse defeated Kansas, 89-81 in overtime, rallying from a 13 point deficit in the second half.

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The event is named after the College Basketball Experience, the award-winning and highly interactive college hoops fan facility adjacent to Sprint Center arena, which also features the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame. The College Basketball Experience is the nation's only facility that celebrates, in its entirety, the sport of men's collegiate basketball. This highly interactive facility also boasts the official Hall of Fame for men's collegiate basketball. In the College Basketball Experience, YOU are the player! Currently in its third year of operation, the College Basketball Experience has played host to over 200,000 enthusiastic college basketball fans and visitors and over 200 special events since its opening in 2007. Although located in the heart of downtown Kansas City, where the game of men's college basketball was nurtured and grew to soaring heights, the College Basketball Experience is a facility for a nation of college basketball fans. The tournament, in partnership with the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC), was initially established in 2001 as the Guardians Classic.

The O'Reilly Auto Parts CBE Classic is produced by The Gazelle Group in Princeton, N.J. The Gazelle Group is a sports marketing firm, specializing in event production and management, client representation, and sponsorship consulting. Gazelle produces numerous nationally recognized events, such as the 2K Sports Classic benefiting Coaches vs. Cancer, the Legends Classic and the College Basketball Invitational (CBI). For more information on The Gazelle Group, please visit gazellegroup.com.

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