BE vs Big 12 Battle matchup set

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

big if true

People are talking

 

[Ts5034]

Thats good, now we just need a marquee non conference game at home for next season.

 

[HuskyHawk]

My guess is it is just for the Islanders new arena opening or at most 1 game a year. Part of their recruiting pitch is playing at MSG so it would be silly to start playing at UBS instead of MSG.

But a game vs KU at a new arena is a nice way to break it on. Tait is very reliable on KU news.

 

[Big East Fa]

St. John’s to host powerhouse Kansas at Islanders’ new arena

Mark your calendars, St. John’s fans. You have a marquee non-conference home game to attend in early December.

www.google.com

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Tait is very reliable on KU news.

Maybe so, but the combination of "USB Arena" and "between Queens & Long Island" didn't inspire confidence that he knows what he's talking about.

First of all, it's the UBS Arena, (named for the largest private banking company in the world), and it is sited in Elmont, NY, which is at the border of the NYC Borough of Queens and adjacent Nassau County, both of which are part of the same land mass that is named Long Island.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

How much of the game will feature side by side cameras honed in on specifically Huggins and Hurley?

 

[SoCalCanine]

How much of the game will feature side by side cameras honed in on specifically Huggins and Hurley?

Huggins is still alive????

 

[seeya27]

Amazing but true. Although truth be told, he doesn't look so good. The man can still coach though.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Maybe so, but the combination of "USB Arena" and "between Queens & Long Island" didn't inspire confidence that he knows what he's talking about.

First of all, it's the UBS Arena, (named for the largest private banking company in the world), and it is sited in Elmont, NY, which is at the border of the NYC Borough of Queens and adjacent Nassau County, both of which are part of the same land mass that is named Long Island.

I used to have an account there, autocorrect often changes it to USB. Sounds like it’s between Queens and LI, nobody calls Queens Long Island, even if it is.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

I used to have an account there, autocorrect often changes it to USB. Sounds like it’s between Queens and LI, nobody calls Queens Long Island, even if it is.

When I lived in Greenwich Village and mediated weekly in Brooklyn 25 years ago, I first heard people commonly say that they were going "into the city" or "out to the island." Of course, I knew that that they meant Manhattan in the former case, and Nassau or Suffolk Counties in the latter...even though Brooklyn (like Queens) is both IN New York City and ON Long Island.

By comparably generous interpretation, "in-between Queens and Long Island" is a great phrase for a facility located in Elmont, which sits just beyond New York City limits, but was once considered within Queens, though long before the city's multi-borough consolidation in the late 1900s.

 

[Waquoit]

I used to have an account there, autocorrect often changes it to USB.

That's the name of the Port, not the Arena.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[jibsey]

Huggins is still alive????

Not exactly healthy looking.

 

[Get a Job]

Not exactly healthy looking.

Huggins always reminds me of Violent J from ICP when he was at his heaviest, without the face paint, of course.

 

[Storrs South]

Impressive for a school to have their OOC schedule complete by June

 

[OkaForPrez]

While its awesome to get a shot at an old big east foe, its really friggin' hard to win there against them when they are average. If Rothstein has them that high this will be a really tough challenge.

 

[Waquoit]

Impressive for a school to have their OOC schedule complete by June

Especially one chockful of powerhouses like that one.

 

[Storrs South]