The Big East announced the home and away matchups for the 2008-09 season today. To no surprise, UConn and Rutgers will meet twice. At this point, the series is too hot for it not to include two meetings during the regular season.
This will be the fourth straight season since the Big East expanded to 16 teams that the Huskies and Scarlet Knights have met twice – and the sixth straight season overall. They each won at home this past season, but UConn defeated Rutgers 66-56 in the NCAA Greensboro regional final April 1.
The teams have split the last six regular season games and the last 10 games in the series overall.
The Big East also elected to keep the other seven home and home matchups from last season intact: Cincinnati/Louisville; DePaul/Notre Dame; Georgetown/Syracuse; Marquette/South Florida; Pittsburgh/West Virginia; Providence/Villanova; and St. John’s/Seton Hall.
The Huskies will host conference opponents DePaul, Louisville, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, Seton Hall, Syracuse and Villanova. They will travel to Cincinnati, Georgetown, Marquette, Providence, St. John’s, South Florida and West Virginia.
Key non-conference games for UConn next season include Oklahoma and LSU at home, at North Carolina and against Penn State at the Maggie Dixon Classic at Madison Square Garden Dec. 14. Rutgers will also compete at the Maggie Dixon Classic (Army).
Geno and with his wife, Kathy, will host the inaugural “Horsin’ Around for the V Foundation’’ Saturday at Geno’s Fast Break at the Mohegan Sun Casino from 3:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The event is sold out.
Fans can still make donations by logging on to www.genoscancerteam.com and clicking on the “Donate Now’’ tab in the upper right. The V Foundation awards 100% of all direct cash donations and net proceeds of the events to cancer research and related programs.
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