![]() Villanova, the BIG EAST regular-season and tournament champion last year, is represented by guard Collin Gillespie and forward Jermaine Samuels. Cale, who is also known for his strong defensive prowess, was second to Powell in scoring with a 10.2 average. Teammate Myles Cale joins Powell on the squad. The 6-2 guard was a unanimous All-BIG EAST First Team selection and was selected to the All-Tournament Team at the BIG EAST Tournament. ![]() He ranked second in the league in scoring with a 22.6 average and second in steals with a 2.0 mark. Myles Powell, a rising senior from Seton Hall, was one of the top players in the BIG EAST last season. Prior to the Games, the team will practice at the Ruane Development Center on the Providence College campus July 21-26. The Pool B Participants are: Argentina, Dominican Republic, Mexico and Uruguay. squad will open play in Pool A against Virgin Islands on July 31 followed by contests against Venezuela on Aug. The team will play five games in five days in Lima. The Pan American Games are a multi-sport event featuring teams from North, South and Central American and the Caribbean, which are organized by the Pan American Sports Organization (PASO) and played every four years in the year preceding the Olympics (2019, 2023, etc.). When you have the opportunity to represent your country, it is special honor." This will be an exciting summer for our entire team. As I look through the roster, I think we will display the toughness and skill that defines BIG EAST Basketball. "I think our committee did a great job putting together a strong roster to represent our country and our league. "I am looking forward to getting our squad together next month for the Pan Am Games," Cooley said. He will be assisted by Kevin Willard of Seton Hall University and Mike Martin of Brown University. Ed Cooley, the head coach of Providence College, will be the head coach of the U.S. in the sport of men's basketball in Pan American Games competition. The BIG EAST is the first Division I conference to represent the U.S. Creighton's representatives include rising junior guard Ty-Shon Alexander and recent CU graduate Geoffrey Groselle. Prior to the competition, a final roster of 12 active players and three alternates will be determined. The roster includes a pool of 15 players. Short of altering the operations manual and threatening the players with stiff fines, there might not be enough coaching for Harden and Curry to change their ways and Nike may be out of luck, especially if more players start following suit.NEW YORK - The BIG EAST has announced its preliminary roster of men's basketball standouts who will represent the United States in the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, on July 31-August 4. In that case, both Microsoft and the NFL "coached" the announcers on using the proper name, and it eventually worked. Unfortunately for Microsoft, network announcers spent the first few months of that deal calling the tablets "iPads." ![]() It will be interesting to see whether Under Armour has taken steps to avoid this trap when it takes over as the official uniform of MLB in 2019.Ī better-known example in recent years was when Microsoft paid the NFL $400 million for its Surface to be the official tablet of the league. Unfortunately for Majestic, the undershirts were not deemed to be part of the uniform, and players were free to wear what they wanted as long as the shirts adhered to the color guidelines of MLB. Less noticeable has been the addition of the Nike swoosh to NBA socks, as the company also replaced the sockmaker Stance for the official sock of the NBA.Īndrew McCutchen of the Pittsburgh Pirates is a Nike athlete. In addition to adding advertising patches to the jerseys of many teams, the NBA also allowed Nike to add its logo to the uniforms, something Adidas was not permitted to do under the previous uniform contract. The most notable problem has been the prevalence of ripped jerseys, something Nike is said to be working on.īut another, potentially larger problem has gone largely unnoticed: Some of the NBA's biggest stars seem to be going out of their way to hide some of the Nike swooshes on the uniforms. We are less than one month into that new deal, and Nike and the NBA are already running into problems. The NBA went through a major visual overhaul this season as Nike and the league struck what Darren Rovell of ESPN said was an eight-year, $1 billion deal for the athletic shoe and apparel giant to become the official supplier of NBA uniforms. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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