The first of ESPN’s four owned and operated eight-team, 12-game basketball tournaments got the season off to a festive start—with Clemson outlasting Temple in the first annual Charleston Classic. Next up: The O’Reilly Auto Parts Puerto Rico Tip-Off (Nov. 20-23, San Juan), featuring the likes of Memphis and Missouri. The 76 CLASSIC (Anaheim, Calif.) and the Old Spice Classic (Walt Disney World Resort, near Orlando, Fla.) will hit the hardwood Nov. 27-30.Won't you come with us? All our games will be televised on the ESPN family of networks
BASKETBALL: O'Reilly Auto Parts Puerto Rico Tip-Off | 11.20.08
Derrick Rose, John Calipari’s former floor general at Memphis, is the latest in a long line of Calipari-coached players in the NBA. What’s Coach Cal’s secret? (Find out here.) Meanwhile, Calipari has the O'Reilly Auto Parts Puerto Rico Tip-Off on the brain: “We’re going in to play Chattanooga, a team that’s picked to win their conference. If we don’t play--we get beat.”
• POLL:Will Memphis run away with the Puerto Rico Tip-Off? | VOTE >>
BASKETBALL: 76 Classic & Old Spice Classic | 11.27.08
Is Memphis your pick to win it all in 2009? How ’bout Tennessee, or Georgetown, for that matter? You can see them all—not once, but three times!—during the 76 Classic and Old Spice Classic, which both tip Nov. 27-30. Both fields are stacked with stars (like St. Mary's Patrick Mills). See for yourself:
