Yes, we are already talking 2016-17 schedule here...
The Sun Devil men's basketball team will play Kentucky on Dec. 12, 2015, in Rupp Arena, and then the teams will meet the next year in Nassau, Bahamas, on Monday, Nov. 28, 2016,?Complete Sports Management?announced.?
The game will be played in the 3,800-seat Imperial Ballroom at the?Atlantis ? Paradise Island?resort on Nassau’s Paradise Island, the site of the yearly?Battle 4 Atlantis?tournament.
“We look forward to a great matchup with Kentucky in a place where Arizona State has never played next November,” said Arizona State head coach?Bobby Hurley. “It is important for our program to play high-level competition early in the season while at the same time gaining exposure for our players. It will be another great learning experience for our team in a place that is becoming popular in the college basketball world with regards to early-season games. The list of teams playing in Atlantis increases every year, and we are glad to be part of it.”
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“We are thrilled to return to the Bahamas in 2016 to play Arizona State,” Kentucky head coach?John Calipari?said. “I have a ton of respect for Coach Bobby Hurley and believe he’s going to take Arizona State to the next level. A great opponent coupled with a beautiful setting after the holiday weekend should make this an unbelievable trip for our fans.”
ABOUT COMPLETE SPORTS MANAGEMENT
Complete Sports Management is an all-encompassing sports marketing agency, led by founder and president?Lea Miller. The core capabilities of the agency include the creation of sporting events, event management, sponsorship and hospitality package sales and ticket promotion.
?Through Miller’s global connections, she seized the opportunity to take collegiate sports outside of the United States by putting together a preseason college basketball tournament,?Battle 4 Atlantis, held in Paradise Island, Bahamas. In its first four years, Battle 4 Atlantis has turned into the most successful preseason men’s Division I college basketball tournament in history, while providing unprecedented exposure for both the Atlantis Resort and the Bahamas. Miller has also negotiated sponsorship agreements and media contracts with ESPN, NBC Sports Network and AXS TV.
CSM brought Kentucky men’s basketball to the Bahamas for a foreign tour in summer 2014, and Georgia Tech and West Virginia will take CSM-managed foreign basketball tours to the Bahamas in summer 2015.
In 2014, Complete Sports Management played a large role in bringing the Bahamas its’ first college football FBS postseason bowl game, the inaugural?Popeyes Bahamas Bowl.
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