Bucknell's win over Kansas has been nominated for an ESPY in the Best Upset category.

One of four nominees, the Bison are competing with Vermont's upset of Syracuse, the Puerto Rican national team's Athens Olympics win over the US and 50-1 shot Giacomo's Kentucky Derby win.

Just go to ESPN's site to cast your vote.
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No more Sunday games. No more travel partners.

From Navy Sports.com, this release on the Patriot League's scheduling setup for the coming season:

The League will abandon its 'travel partner' Friday-Sunday schedule after using it for three seasons. There are several reasons for the change, chief among them the ability to give Sundays back to student-athletes as an academic preparation day. The schedules for men and women will be identical, which gives institutions the option of hosting doubleheaders on weekends.

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The University of Akron's announcement of its 2005-06 Non-League Schedule includes mention of Holy Cross as one of the teams joining the zips at the San Juan Shootout:

Akron will be in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Dec. 17-22 for the San Juan Shootout, with games being played from Dec. 19-21. Including UA, the eight-team field consists of Clemson, Holy Cross, Liberty, Mississippi State, Mount St. Mary's, Puerto Rico Mayaguez and Tennessee-Chattanooga. Mississippi State and Chattanooga were NCAA Tournament teams in 2005, while Clemson and Holy Cross took part in the NIT. Seedings for the event will be announced at a later date.

Also, from the Harvard site, the Crimson's schedule, which includes:

The nonleague road schedule will send Harvard to Holy Cross, which reached the NIT last season, Boston University, Sacred Heart, Lehigh and Albany.

And speaking of Lehigh, the University of Washington has made it official. From Seattle TV station KING 5:

In non-conference home games this season, the Huskies will play Gonzaga on December 4th, as well as American University, Idaho, Loyola Marymount, Eastern Washington, Lehigh and Cornell.

UW will be a tough test of AU and Lehigh. The Huskies return three of their top five scorers from a team that made it to the Sweet 16 last season.
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