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The College Basketball Experience tournament has a new format for the 2008-09 season.
The CBE will consist of 12 teams, down from 16 a year ago.
Host schools KU, Syracuse, Washington and Florida will each play two home games (likely Nov. 16 and 18), then advance to Kansas City on Nov. 24-25 regardless of how they fare in the opening games.
KU senior associate athletic director Larry Keating believes University of Missouri-Kansas City will be one of KU’s tourney foes in Lawrence. The other opponent has not been revealed.
It’s also believed KU will play Washington on Nov. 24 at Sprint Center, then meet either Florida or Syracuse in the finals or consolation finals.
The eight schools in the CBE that aren’t host schools will not travel to Sprint Center. These low to mid-major squads will play two four-team events at sites to be determined. All 12 teams are guaranteed four games.
“The way it was last year, they’d send three teams to our place and we’d have a doubleheader each day (with one survivor advancing to Kansas City),” Keating said. “Now we get two games at our place and two in Kansas City. Each one of the (mid-major) schools will play one game at one of the host schools. Then they break up in two groups of four and play three round-robin games.”
KU will travel to Arizona and Michigan State and meet Tennessee and Temple in Allen Fieldhouse next season in the Jayhawks’ marquee nonconference games. KU will also meet UMass in Sprint Center.
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