2014 Barclay's Classic

[broderickpresident]

I know we knew we were in this, but looks like field has been finalized:


BROOKLYN (March 12, 2014) – ACC regular season champion and currently No. 6 ranked Virginia will headline the third annual Barclays Center Classic college basketball event on November 28 and 29, 2014. Rutgers, Vanderbilt, and La Salle will round out the field in Brooklyn.



Tickets will go on sale Friday, March 21 at 10 a.m. and are available through Ticketmaster by visiting www.barclayscenter.com or www.ticketmaster.com, or by calling 800-745-3000. Tickets are also available at the American Express Box Office at Barclays Center starting Saturday, March 22 at noon.



With Rutgers joining the Big Ten next season, the Barclays Center Classic teams will represent several of the nation’s top conferences, including the ACC (Virginia), the Southeastern Conference (Vanderbilt) and the Atlantic 10 (La Salle). Matchups will be announced at a later date.



“We are excited to continue bringing a great college basketball atmosphere to Brooklyn,” said Barclays Center CEO Brett Yormark. “During the first two years, this event has hosted several storied programs such as Kentucky, Maryland and St. John’s, and we are thrilled to be delivering teams from the nation’s powerhouse conferences once again next season. Barclays Center Classic is one of our signature events and we are proud that our venue has become a significant national setting for college basketball.”



Brooklyn Nets All Access season ticket buyers have the opportunity to purchase tickets for Barclays Center events before the general public. For more information, visit www.barclayscenter.com and follow @barclayscenter on Twitter and Facebook (facebook.com/BarclaysCenter) for the latest updates and special pre-sale offers.



The Barclays Center college basketball platform BROOKLYN HOOPS™ is presented by Ticketmaster, with other partners including Applebee’s, GEICO, High Point Solutions, McDonald’s, Modell’s, JetBlue, New York Life, PC Richard & Son, and Honda.

[stlexplorer]

Solid group. Obviously a win over a Virginia would be a big boost but just playing them is great

[scarletexplorer]

Oh this is excellent. Please beat the tar out of Rutgers. Anything less than a 30 point victory I'll consider a loss.

[thehawkisdead]

Is this a two-round tournament?

[Deleted]

This is only the second part of the event. There will also be four lower tier teams who will go on the road to play games against the upper tier teams. La Salle will get two home games at Gola in addition to the two games in Brooklyn. The four lower tier teams will also crown their own champion. One of them will host the other three at the same time the games are being played at Barclay's.

[MisterD]

I'm unhappy its over Thanksgiving weekend.

[luhoopsfan]

Mar 18, 2014 17:32:48 GMT -5 @kjmac12 said:

This is only the second part of the event. There will also be four lower tier teams who will go on the road to play games against the upper tier teams. La Salle will get two home games at Gola in addition to the two games in Brooklyn. The four lower tier teams will also crown their own champion. One of them will host the other three at the same time the games are being played at Barclay's.

Do we have any idea about who is in that lower group yet?

We had a great SOS this year that wa probably a little better than our guys were capable of successfully navigating, but I think if some of the timing was changed it might have been a little better for this particular group. I'm hopeful that next year maybe we can get this new group a few games that should be considered highly winnable before getting into some tougher matchups. Not saying a Syracuse-esque home stretch but 2 maybe 3 games to get things working and build early confidence. I often wonder if the sequence this year was Siena, Quinnipiac, Manhattan could they have built some better early confidence and chemistry

[jellybean]

St. Peter's is supposedly one of those teams.

My guess the match up will be La Salle vs. Vanderbilt and Rutgers vs. Virginia.