The date of the national-championship game rematch has been announced. UConn will play at Stanford at 9 p.m. on Dec. 30. It will be the second game of the Huskies'
California road trip at UConn plays at Pacific at 10 p.m. on Dec. 28. For those interested in projecting such things, if UConn emerges unscathed from some challenging early games, the game at Pacific would be No. 88 in a row, matching the Division I men's basketball record winning streak set by John Wooden's UCLA teams in the early 1970s and Stanford would be No. 89.

UConn's schedule should be coming out later this month but other than the date of North Carolina game and the exhibition game against Franklin Pierce, here's the breakdown of the non-conference games.


Franklin Pierce (date, site TBA)
Nov. 10 Indiana (Pa.)
Regular season
Nov. 14 Holy Cross
Nov. 16 Baylor (XL Center), 6 p.m.
Nov. 21 at Georgia Tech, 2 p.m.
Nov. 26-28 World Vision Classic vs. Howard, Lehigh and LSU (dates of exact matchups have not been announced)
Dec. 5 Sacred Heart
Dec. 19 Ohio State (at Madison Square Garden), 2:30 p.m.
Dec. 21 Florida State
Dec. 28 at Pacific, 10 p.m.
Dec. 30 at Stanford, 9 p.m.
Jan. 31 Duke
Feb. 14 Oklahoma


EISENMANN HEADED TO FORDHAM
I guess I should have figured something was up when Jack Eisenmann, UConn's director of basketball operations for the last nine seasons, did not accompany UConn coach Geno Auriemma to the Pilot Pen Tennis tournament last month as he normally would have done. Now I know why as Eisenmann left to become an assistant coach at Fordham