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2017 Progressive Legends Classic 2017 PROGRESSIVE LEGENDS CLASSIC Media Contact: Ray Cella: 609-921-1300, [email protected] www.legendsclassic.com | Twitter: @legendsbball | Facebook: Legends Classic | Instagram: @legendsclassic PROGRESSIVE LEGENDS CLASSIC: The Progressive Legends Classic is one of the nation’s THE FIELD premier early-season college basketball tournaments. Eight teams from across the nation will compete in the 11th annual event with Penn State, Pittsburgh, No. 25 Texas A&M, and • Penn State Oklahoma State serving as Regional Round hosts. Regional action begins on Nov. 10 with the four hosts advancing to the Championship Rounds, Nov. 20-21, at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, • Pittsburgh N.Y. The remainder of the field will participate in the Subregional Round held in Malibu, Calif., • Texas A&M also on Nov. 20-21. • Oklahoma State • Pepperdine Joining the four Regional Round hosts in the Legends Classic are Pepperdine, Montana, Oral Roberts, and UCSB. • Montana • Oral Roberts ABOUT THE “LEGENDS:” A unique feature of the Progressive Legends Classic is the annual • UCSB recognition of former players and coaches from the participating institutions who have made a significant contribution to the sport of college basketball. These legends are honored on the individual campuses either during the event or at a more convenient time during the season. A complete list of past and present honorees can be found in these notes. MEDIA CONTACTS Penn State Rose Carter O: 814-863-3163 [email protected] Pittsburgh Matt Plizga O: 412-648-8242 [email protected] FOLLOW Texas A&M Adam Quisenberry O: 979-862-5453 [email protected] LEGENDS CLASSIC Oklahoma State Stephen Howard O: 405-744-7756 [email protected] Pepperdine Roger Horne O: 310-506-4455 [email protected] ON SOCIAL MEDIA... Montana Nic Hallisey C: 970-231-4789 [email protected] Oral Roberts Blake Freeland O: 918-495-7181 [email protected] UCSB Bill Mahoney O: 805-893-3428 [email protected] TICKET INFORMATION: Tickets for the Championship Rounds at Barclays Center may be @legendsbball Legends Classic purchased through TicketMaster: TicketMaster ticketmaster.com 800-745-3000 OFFICIAL TOURNAMENT WEBSITE: The official website of the tournament is legendsclassic www.LegendsClassic.com. The site contains the latest news and information regarding the Progressive Legends Classic. 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The Common Shares of The Progressive Corporation, the Mayfield Village, Ohio-based holding company, trade publicly at NYSE:PGR. PROGRESSSIVE LEGENDS CLASSIC 2017 PROGRESSIVE LEGENDS CLASSIC LegendsClassic.com @LegendsBBall @LegendsClassic @LegendsClassic All Times Eastern (schedule subject to change) UNIVERSITY PARK REGIONAL STILLWATER REGIONAL BRYCE JORDAN CENTER - UNIVERSITY PARK, PA. GALLAGHER-IBA ARENA - STILLWATER, OKLA. NOVEMBER 15 7:00PM NOVEMBER 24 3:00PM NOVEMBER 10 8:30PM NOVEMBER 16 8:00PM Montana Oral Roberts Pepperdine Oral Roberts Penn State Penn State Oklahoma State Oklahoma State PITTSBURGH REGIONAL COLLEGE STATION REGIONAL PETERSEN EVENTS CENTER - PITTSBURGH, PA. REED ARENA - COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS NOVEMBER 13 7:00PM NOVEMBER 15 7:00PM NOVEMBER 17 8:00PM NOVEMBER 24 9:00PM Montana UCSB UCSB Pepperdine Pittsburgh Pittsburgh #25 Texas A&M #25 Texas A&M Championship Rounds NOVEMBER 20 NOVEMBER 21 #25 Texas A&M 7:00 PM Oklahoma State 6:00 PM Penn State CHAMPION 9:30 PM Pittsburgh 3:30 PM THIRD PLACE MALIBU SUBREGIONAL - FIRESTONE FIELDHOUSE - MALIBU, CALIF. NOVEMBER 20 8:00 PM NOVEMBER 20 10:30 PM NOVEMBER 21 TBA NOVEMBER 21 TBA Oral Roberts UCSB Consolation Championship Montana Pepperdine Game Game 475 WALL STREET | PRINCETON, NJ 08540 | 609-921-1300 | GAZELLEGROUP. PROGRESSSIVE LEGENDS CLASSIC YEAR-BY-YEAR CHAMPIONS NEW YORK STATE OF MIND: 2017 marks the sixth year that the Progressive Champion Runner-Up Score Legends Classic will be played east of the Hudson River as each of the 2016 Notre Dame Northwestern 70-66 previous five Classics were played in New Jersey. In 2007 and 2008, the 2015 Marquette Arizona State 78- 73 (OT) Prudential Center in Newark served as the venue. In 2009 and 2010, 2014 #12 Villanova #19 Michigan 60-55 it was Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. In 2011, the IZOD Center in the 2013 Pittsburgh Stanford 88-67 Meadowlands Sports Complex was the venue for the Championship 2012 #1 Indiana Georgetown 82-72 (OT) Rounds. In 2012, the brand new Barclays Center served as host for the 2011 #20 Vanderbilt Oregon State 64-62 Championship Rounds for the first time. 2010 #10 Syracuse Georgia Tech 80-76 2009 Florida Rutgers 73-58 WELCOME BACK, CHAMPS: Pittsburgh is the only team this season 2008 #4 Pittsburgh Washington State 57-43 returning to the Progressive Legends Classic. The Panthers are a perfect 2007 #16 Texas #7 Tennessee 97-78 8-0 in Legends play, having won the championship in 2008 and 2013. PUNCH YOUR TICKET: Since the beginning of the Progressive Legends NEW YORK, NEW YORK: Only one student-athlete from the New York Classic in 2007, nine of the 10 champions have gone on to the NCAA metropolitan area will participate in the Progressive Legends Classic Tournament. In 2007, Classic champion Texas reached the Elite Eight games at Barclays Center. However, Oklahoma State head coach Mike of the NCAA Tournament while runner-up Tennessee and West Virginia Boynton returns to the borough of his birth in his first season at the helm made it to the Sweet 16. In 2008, Pittsburgh won the tournament of the Cowboys. and, like Texas, reached the Elite Eight. In addition, Mississippi State and Akron each garnered NCAA bids while Washington State, which PSU Taylor Nussbaum Fr.. South Salem, N.Y./Cheshire Acad. (CT) dropped the title game to the Panthers, made the NIT. In 2009, Michigan State won the consolation game and later advanced to CATAPULTING INTO THE RANKINGS: Florida entered the 2009 Legends the Final Four. Cornell, which won its Regional Round game as well Classic unranked. However, dominant Regional Round wins over Troy and as all three of its Subregional Round games, advanced to the Sweet Georgia Southern preceded a stunning 77-74 win over No. 2 Michigan 16 – the farthest it has ever gone in the NCAA Tournament. Legends State and a 73-58 championship game victory versus Rutgers resulted in Classic champion Florida earned a bid to the NCAA Tournament the Gators going from unranked to No. 13 in the nation two days after the while Troy was accorded a berth in the NIT. In 2010, Syracuse used Legends Classic concluded. In 2014, Villanova entered the Legends Classic its championship to springboard to the second round of the NCAA ranked No. 12. After winning the tournament, the Wildcats continued their Tournament, as did Michigan, which lost in the Legends consolation success before ending the season ranked No. 2 in the AP poll. game. UTEP also reached the postseason by earning an NIT berth. In the short history of the event, two Progressive Legends Classic In 2011, consolation game winner NC State advanced to the Sweet participants eventually reached No. 1 in the polls. In 2007, No. 7 Tennessee, 16 of the NCAA Tournament, while champion Vanderbilt reached which lost in the title game to No. 16 Texas, would move into the top spot the NCAA third round and Texas earned an NCAA bid. Oregon State the week of Feb. 25, 2008. In 2008, Legends champ and fourth-ranked advanced to the semifinals of the CBI and Princeton advanced to Pittsburgh would eventually move to No. 1 for three weeks. Indiana, which the quarterfinals. Bucknell and Cleveland State both garnered 2012 played in the 2012 event, entered the Legends Classic ranked No. 1 and NIT bids with Bucknell reaching the second round. In 2012, then- would stay there for 10 weeks. No. 1 Indiana took the crown and advanced to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament. In all, eight teams in the 2012 event reached THE MAN: He was the man but he wasn’t even named Tournament MVP the postseason. Runner-up Georgetown, consolation game winner in 2007. In leading Texas to the title, A.J. Abrams set eight Progressive UCLA, and James Madison all earned NCAA bids, Southern Mississippi Legends Classic records that still stand, including points in a tournament reached the quarterfinals of the NIT, North Dakota State earned (103), points in the Championship Rounds (52), field goals in a tournament a CBI bid, and UC Irvine and Youngstown State went to the CIT. In (39), and 3-point field goals in a tournament (23), nine of which came in a 2013, Pittsburgh won the championship and reached the NCAA semifinal win against New Mexico State. That, too, is still a record. So who Tournament’s third round. Stanford, which lost to Pitt, advanced to did receive MVP honors? Teammate D.J. Augustin. the Sweet 16. Texas Southern won the SWAC title and earned an automatic NCAA berth while South Dakota State played in the CBI.
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