Opening Day for the Roundball...

[talksalot]

and how will the HL fare?    5 games on tap Friday night...

Youngstown State at Kennesaw State (first game of the KState Owl Tournament where the Owls will play 4 games in 4 days to open the season (EKY, FIU and Warren College).

Milwaukee at Loyola.  Someone will have to wake me up with this one's over.  Can a game end 2-0 and not be a forfeit?

UDM is at South Alabama.  Who's going to coach the Titans now that Junior is gone?

Oakland at the Dean Dome against UNC.  (FROM CBSSports.com)North Carolina will open its season, as expected, without the services of P.J. Hairston and Leslie McDonald, the school confirmed to CBSSports.com on Thursday.  Hairston and McDonald are both out because of issues that are possibly NCAA-related.

Hairston, a junior, had multiple run-ins with law enforcement during the offseason and was also caught driving a rental vehicle linked to an ex-convict with questionable motives. McDonald's issues are apparently rooted in the fact that a company called Iceberg Guards advertised McDonald, a senior, as a user of its mouth guards, which seemingly violates NCAA bylaws. There's no timetable for a resolution in either case.  UNC is ranked 12th in the preseason AP poll.

and of course THE game in the friendly confines.

I'm going with 3-2 for the HL...  Valpo, Milwaukee and Youngstown coming out on top.

[historyman]

UDM is at South Alabama.  Who's going to coach the Titans now that Junior is gone?

So the Titans are taking on Matthew Graves', one of their old HL buddies from Butler, new team in Mobile. The school who gave their team the finest in facilities and really cares that their athletic teams do well and promote their school.

Also you can't use the fact that public schools are better financed. Many states are in terrible financial standing--Illinois. Just look at how Grambling State in Louisiana is doing financially.