Men's Basketball Exhibition Games Announced
8/25/2008 5:15:49 PM | Men's Basketball
SYRACUSE, NY – For the fifth straight season, the Syracuse men’s basketball team will open its campaign with exhibition games against Division II foes. This November the Orange will host Cal State-Los Angeles on Monday, November 3, at 7:00 p.m., and Indiana-Pennsylvania on Sunday, November 9, at 2:00 p.m. Both exhibition games will be contested in the Carrier Dome.
Cal State-Los Angeles is coached by former Syracuse standout Stephen Thompson. The Golden Eagles were 17-11 a season ago and won five of their last seven games. Thompson, who was an assistant with the program before his promotion to head coach, guided the squad to back-to-back 10-17 campaigns in his first two seasons before the dramatically improved mark of a season ago. Syracuse defeated Cal State-Los Angeles in a 2006 exhibition game, 99-51.
Indiana-Pennsylvania was 13-15 and qualified for the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Playoffs last winter. It marked a seven game improvement over the previous campaign for the Crimson Hawks. The program is guided by former Pittsburgh assistant Joe Lombardi.
Season ticket renewal information, as well as student season ticket purchase date, are both available on-line at www.suathletics.com.
