August 15, 2011

Tickets for 2011 Old Spice Classic Go On Sale Today

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Tickets for the 2011 Old Spice Classic will go on sale today, Monday, Aug. 15, at 10 a.m. ET. The sixth annual Old Spice Classic will be held Thanksgiving weekend, Thursday, Friday and Sunday, Nov. 24, 25 and 27, at HP Fieldhouse at the ESPN Wide World of Sports at the Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando, Fla.

ESPN2 will air the majority of the Old Spice Classic, including the entire opening day and the championship game. A total of 11 games will be televised on ESPN networks.

The field for the sixth annual Old Spice Classic will include Arizona State, Dayton, DePaul, Fairfield, Indiana State, Minnesota, Texas Tech and Wake Forest. Three of those teams reached postseason in 2011, with Indiana State earning an NCAA Championship berth. Dayton and Fairfield played in the National Invitation Tournament (NIT).

The tournament consists of 12 games through three days, Nov. 24, 25 and 27. Each team will compete in one game per day, advancing through a bracket-tournament format. The full schedule is listed below.

Fans can purchase tickets to all six sessions (12 games) for $100 each, or single-session tickets (two games) for $20 each. Tickets are available at ticketmaster.com, by calling Ticketmaster at 1-800-745-3000 or through walk-up at the ESPN Wide World of Sports^® Complex Box Office.

Fans can purchase official travel packages, which include game tickets and official team hotel accommodations, by going to www.AnthonyTravel.com or by calling 1-800-736-6377.

For more information about the tournament, please visit the official Web site at http://www.OldSpiceClassic.com, follow on Twitter @OldSpiceClassic and “like” the event on Facebook at facebook.com/OldSpiceClassic. For more information on the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex, visit www.espnwwos.com.

2011 Old Spice Classic Schedule (Home team listed second)

ESPN Regional Television/Event Ownership
The nation’s largest syndicator of collegiate sports programming, ESPN Regional Television (ERT) annually produces more than 1,200 sporting events. Content includes action from NCAA football, basketball and Olympic sports, NHRA and professional and amateur golf, accounting for more than 3,400 live and/or original hours of programming. ERT’s owned and operated events reach over a million fans a year and provides more than 200 additional hours of programming.

In addition to event ownership, ERT is the production headquarters for ESPNU; syndication rights-holder and producer of national, regional and local shows for college conferences (SEC, BIG EAST, Big 12, Mid-American, WAC) and manages the Big 12 Corporate Partner Program.

ESPN Regional Television markets and/or owns several sporting events:

Collegiate Football

Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl St. Petersburg; Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl (Dallas-Fort Worth); BBVA Compass Bowl (Birmingham, Ala.); MAACO Bowl Las Vegas; Gildan New Mexico Bowl (Albuquerque); Sheraton Hawai’i Bowl (Honolulu); Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas (Houston); MEAC/SWAC Challenge presented by Disney (Orlando, Fla.) and The Home Depot ESPNU College Football Awards

Collegiate Basketball

76 Classic (Anaheim, Calif.); Champions Classic (Madison Square Garden; debuts 2011); Charleston Classic presented by Foster Grant (S.C.); Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic (Honolulu); Old Spice Classic (Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando, Fla.); Puerto Rico Tip-Off (San Juan); All-College Basketball Classic (Oklahoma City) and BracketBusters

Collegiate Lacrosse

ESPNU Warrior Classic

Others

Hawaiian Islands Invitational (Soccer) and ESPN National Golf Challenge

For more information, visit ESPNPlus.com.

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