{"id":3492,"date":"2009-08-05T04:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T04:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/lbsu-bball-espn-announces-76-classic-schedule\/"},"modified":"2009-08-05T04:08:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T04:08:00","slug":"lbsu-bball-espn-announces-76-classic-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/lbsu-bball-espn-announces-76-classic-schedule","title":{"rendered":"LBSU BBall: ESPN Announces 76 Classic Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"

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ESPN NEWS announced the schedule and opening matchups for Thanksgiving Weekend’s 76 Classic yesterday\u2014Long Beach State will open on Thursday, November 26th, against West Virginia, at 11am.\u00a0 <\/span>The game will be televised by ESPNU.\u00a0 <\/span>If they win, they’ll get the winner of Texas A&M vs. Clemson\u2014Minnesota, Butler, UCLA, and Portland are the other schools making up the eight-team field.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The tournament will be held at the Anaheim Convention Center\u2014perhaps a good warmup for this year’s Big West Tourney.<\/p>\n

Full schedule below.<\/p>\n

ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU Tournament Schedule <\/o:p><\/strong><\/p>\n

(Home team listed second; Long Beach State will be home team in each of its games)<\/o:p><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Date<\/o:p><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Time (ET\/PT)<\/o:p><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Matchup<\/o:p><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Network<\/o:p><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Thu, Nov 26<\/strong><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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2 p.m. \/ 11 a.m.<\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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West Virginia vs. Long Beach State (Game 1)<\/o:p><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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ESPNU<\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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\u00a0<\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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4:30 p.m. \/ 1:30 p.m.<\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Texas A&M vs. Clemson (Game 2)<\/o:p><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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ESPN2<\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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\u00a0<\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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8:30 p.m. \/ 5:30 p.m.<\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Minnesota vs. Butler (Game 3)<\/o:p><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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ESPN2<\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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\u00a0<\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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10:30 p.m. \/ 7:30 p.m.<\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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UCLA vs. Portland (Game 4)<\/o:p><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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ESPN2<\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Fri, Nov 27<\/strong><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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2:30 p.m. \/ 11:30 a.m.<\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Game 5<\/o:p><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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ESPN<\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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\u00a0<\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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5 p.m. \/ 2 p.m.<\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Game 6<\/o:p><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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ESPNU<\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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\u00a0<\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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9:30 p.m. \/ 6:30 p.m.<\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Game 7<\/o:p><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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ESPNU<\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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\u00a0<\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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11:30 p.m. \/ 8:30 p.m.<\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Game 8<\/o:p><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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ESPNU<\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Sun, Nov 29<\/strong><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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2:30 p.m. \/ 11:30 a.m.<\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Game 9<\/o:p><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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ESPNU<\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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\u00a0<\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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5 p.m. \/ 2 p.m.<\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Game 10<\/o:p><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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ESPN2<\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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\u00a0<\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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7:30 p.m. \/ 4:30 p.m.<\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Game 11<\/o:p><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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ESPNU<\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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\u00a0<\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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10 p.m. \/ 7 p.m.<\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Game 12 (Championship Game)<\/o:p><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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ESPN2<\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u00a0<\/o:p><\/p>\n

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Long Beach State will open at 11am on 11\/26 against West Virginia, live on ESPNU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3492"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=3492"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}