UCF Basketball will definitely be tested early in Conference USA.
College basketball newsUCF Basketball will definitely be tested early in Conference USA.
Kirk Speraw and the Knights will open their league schedule with a visit from NCAA Championship runner-up Memphis on Saturday, January 10, 2009.
It will be the first time UCF hosts Memphis in the new UCF Arena.
The Tigers first and last visit to Orlando in January 2007 set an old UCF Arena attendance record with a capacity crowd of 4,805. UCFs new on-campus basketball venue, which opened last season, now seats 10,000.
Memphis rolled through C-USA again last year, finishing the year 38-2 with a heartbreaking overtime loss to Kansas in the NCAA Tournament Championship Game.
UCFs second C-USA game will be a trip to Birmingham to play UAB.
The Knights full 2008-09 schedule will be out soon.
Scott waits in Orlando: R.J. Scotts official visit to UCF and Orlando is going a little bit longer than planned. Scott, who committed to the Knights last month, lives in New Orleans and his Sunday evening flight home to Louisiana was cancelled due to the impending threat of Hurricane Gustav.
He arrived in Orlando late last week, spending the weekend on campus and attending the Knights first football game against South Carolina State.
In the meantime, Scott and his family are staying with relatives in the area until they can return home.
Scott, a shooting guard at Slidells Salmen High School, is the Knights first commitment in the 2009 class. He chose UCF over offers from Mississippi State, Tulane, New Orleans and others.
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