Questions about the Legends Classic

[jcolli30]

Legends Classic

So first, I'm assuming we are one of the host schools? And second, I wonder how the tickets are going to be handled. I'm assuming since it's a tournament students would have to pay to go?

[roswellvol]

Someone please explain to me how in the hell you have 2 opening round games on home floors with 8 teams and still have 4 teams go to a semifinal and final on a neutral court. Play 2 games against inferior opponents and even of there is an upset, the team with greater margin of point spread goes to the semis?

Please someone help me with this.

[Vol67]

Texas will play Team A & Team B
TBA will play Team B & Team C
Tennessee will play Team A & Team D
West Virginia will play Team C & Team D

Then
TBA, Texas, Tennessee & West Virgina will travel to New York for games against each other

[Volman09]

I hope TBA is an ACC or a Big ten school.

[TennesseeFan07]

Looks like we'll have a good chance of beating the Longhorns for the 3rd year in a row.

[roswellvol]

Originally Posted by Vol67

Texas will play Team A & Team B
TBA will play Team B & Team C
Tennessee will play Team A & Team D
West Virginia will play Team C & Team D

Then
TBA, Texas, Tennessee & West Virgina will travel to New York for games against each other

Team A beats Texas and loses to Tennesssee.
Team B beats TBA and loses to Texas.
Team C beats West Virginia and loses to TBA.
Team D beats Tennessee and loses to West Virginia.

I guess what I'm looking for here is maybe I missed the part where the 4 majors get an auto to NYC. Just doesn't seem to make any sense to me.

[ut 4 me]

Originally Posted by TennesseeFan07

Looks like we'll have a good chance of beating the Longhorns for the 3rd year in a row.

right on

[hatvol96]

Originally Posted by Volman09

I hope TBA is an ACC or a Big ten school.

I'd be very surprised if the fourth team isn't from one of those leagues. I can't see a PAC 10 team being fired up about a trip to Newark and the other major conferences are already represented.

[ukvols]

Florida and Kansas were in a similar event last season that ended with the four host schools playing in Las Vegas. It took me a bit to realize it wasn't a tournament. It had seemed odd that all four opponents were known before the "invitational" started.

[ukvols]

I don't understand what the purpose of the first two games is. Perhaps it gets the smaller schools trips to play the big boys that are covered by the tournament host/sponsor instead of UT paying them to come.

[hatvol96]

Originally Posted by ukvols

I don't understand what the purpose of the first two games is. Perhaps it gets the smaller schools trips to play the big boys that are covered by the tournament host/sponsor instead of UT paying them to come.

By calling it a tournament, it allows you to play three games and only have them counted as 1 towards your total number for purposes of the NCAA maximum for regular season games.