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College hoops season starts with a military flair
ASSOCIATED PRESS
In this Nov. 11, 2011, file photo, North Carolina forward John Henson (31) tries to block a shot by Michigan State center Adreian Payne (5) during the first half of the Carrier Classic NCAA college basketball game aboard the USS Carl Vinson in Coronado, Calif. It was a college basketball game like none before, played on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier. The college hoops season will begin next Friday with three games afloat, two on aircraft carriers and one on an amphibious assault ship, and another in a hangar at Ramstein Air Base in Germany. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)
Posted 11/9/12
The college basketball season gets under way Friday with a game at a Europe military base, two more aboard Navy ships and another featuring a reshaped national champion playing in a brand new building.
No. 14 Michigan State plays Connecticut, in its first game since the retirement of coach Jim Calhoun, at Ramstein Air Base in Kaiserslautern, Germany. It's the first game between Division I teams held in Europe.
Then it's on to the decks for No. 4 Ohio State against Marquette on the USS Yorktown in Charleston, S.C., and Georgetown facing No. 10 Florida on the USS Battan in Jacksonville, Fla.
No. 3 Kentucky, the defending national champion with a heralded freshman class, plays Maryland in the first college doubleheader at the new Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.