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Matchups Announced for 2020 SEC/Big “Moving the Texas Golf Hall of Fame 12 Women’s Challenge 5 SMU REPORT ceremonies to other sites around the state The Big 12 and Southeastern confer- BY DIC HUMPHREY is the right thing to do to showcase our ences have announced the matchups for 6 GOLF, ETC. state’s immense golf history,” said Hall of their women’s basketball challenge for the BY TOM WARD Fame Managing Director Andrew Peterson. 2020-21 season. WORLDS TOP FIVE PLAYERS “The Texas Golf Hall of Fame is the Every team from the Big 12 will partici- COMMIT TO COLONIAL 7 BY PGATOUR.COM largest in the nation, so it makes sense to pate, while 10 teams from the SEC will showcase the event in other great Texas take part. The format features five home MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT ALL- Historic HCC Host TGHOF Dinner, cities.” games on campus sites for each conference 8 TIME POWER RANKINGS October 6 BY PGATOUR.COM Houston Country Club, which opened per year. For the first time in more than a decade, in 1908 as the first course in Houston, is Game dates and tip times, along with GENESYS 300 WEEKEND the Texas Golf Hall of Fame Induction 10 BY TEXASMOTORSPEEDWAY.COM celebrating its 112th anniversary this year television designations, will be released Banquet is headed to Houston for the as one of the oldest clubs in the state of when available. NBA ANNOUNCES RE-START Tuesday, October 6 induction dinner at his- Texas. It began its golf life near downtown “The SEC/Big 12 Challenge proved to 11 PLAN toric Houston Country Club. BY NBA.COM of the then relatively small city with an be a successful event for both conferences The gala induction ceremony will be the original design by club member A.W. since its inception in 2014,” said Big 12 COLLEGE FOOTBALL NEWS AND first time since the Texas Golf Hall of Pollard. Commissioner Bob Bowlsby. “These con- 12 NOTES Fame, which was reconstituted in 2009, BY BO CARTER It moved to its location in the tests provide high-quality matchups that has held the induction ceremonies outside Tanglewood section of the city in 1957 and prepare our teams for the rigors of Big 12 AUTO REVIEW of San Antonio. The banquet honors the 15 BY KBB.COM later redesigns by Robert Trent Jones and play, while showcasing the excitement of Class of 2020 which will feature some of most recently Ben Crenshaw and Bill women’s basketball.” 2020 NFL SCHEDULES BY TEAM the great names and a historic course in 16 BY STAFF Coore have added to its prestige. The inaugural challenge was held in Lone Star links history. It was the longtime golf and tennis 2014. The 10-team format began in 2016 “We’re thrilled to be able to bring the 18 THE TICKET WINDOW home of Houston resident and former U.S. with the two conferences splitting the chal- induction ceremony to Houston this fall President George H.W. Bush. lenge in 2017 and 2018. The Big 12 won and especially at Houston Country Club, 19 RESTAURANT REVIEW The 2020 class, the eleventh since the the event in 2019 with eight of its teams BY RICHARD POLLAK one of the founding clubs in our state and a reconstitution, will be announced July 13. collecting victories. wonderful host,” said Texas Golf Hall of Last year’s inductees were Jimmy 2020 SEC/Big 12 Women’s Basketball Fame Board Chairman Reid Meyers. Walker in the Professional Player Challenge Matchups “October 6 will be a grand night honoring Category, Mike Booker in the Amateur Baylor at Arkansas the best in Texas golf”, Meyers added. 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Iowa 4 June 5, 2020 - June 11, 2020 | The Sports Page Weekly | Volume 18 Issue 41 | www.sportspagedfw.com | follow us on twitter @sportspagdfw.com SMU WITH DIC HUMPHREY SMU announces re-start schedule Looking forward the 2020 season, he starter. said, “We have really high expectations for Last season, the Mustangs went into the this upcoming season. The goal is to win a American Athletic Conference post season championship. We’re losing a couple peo- tournament with 19 wins, but had very lit- ple from last year’s team, but I believe we tle chance to make the NCAA Tournament have some guys that can come up and fill unless they won the conference tourna- their position. I think we’ll be a really ment. Even if the tournament had been good team this year.” played, and the Mustangs had won a cou- In case you are wondering, the last SMU ple of games in the tournament, there was football player to grace the Texas Football considerable doubt that they would have cover was Lance McIlhenny in 1983. even been invited to the NIT. The reason Buechele had already brought positive was the pitiful non-conference schedule, attention to the program. He and his girl- which was ranked in the 300’s out of 353 friend, Paige Vasquez, set up a GoFundMe Division I teams. page that raised $50,000. It was donated to The program has taken steps to change the City of Dallas Emergency Assistance that for the 2020-2021 season. The Fund with the intention of it being used to Mustangs get return games at Moody counter the Coronavirus crisis.