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Mohegan Sun Plans To Host Over 30 CBB Games This Fall

About 35 teams from over a dozen college hoops conferences will compete in the Mohegan Sun bubbleGETTY IMAGES

The Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, Conn., is "completing plans to host more than 30 college basketball teams as it becomes a modified bubble for several early season tournaments, including two moved from New York," according to Pat Eaton-Robb of the AP. The casino has "teamed with" the Basketball HOF and the Gazelle Group to organize the games. Organizers "plan to hold those tournaments and several other 'pods' of games, which will get names in the next few weeks," at the Mohegan Sun's 10,000-seat arena that is home to the WNBA Connecticut Sun. Gazelle Group President Rick Giles said that he "expects about 35 teams from more than a dozen conferences will participate at what they are dubbing 'Bubbleville' between Nov. 25 and Dec. 5, with up to seven games a day." USC basketball coach Andy Enfield said, "It'll be a great event once we get there. We're not concerned as long as we know we’ll get tested and the opposing teams are too." Mohegan Sun Senior VP/Sports & Entertainment Tom Cantone said that it is "not a full bubble, like the NBA and WNBA in Florida, but a highly controlled environment." Eaton-Robb noted each school "will have its own secured floor in the resort's 34-story tower hotels along with meeting and catered dining areas." The resort's 125,000-square-foot exposition center "will be converted into a practice facility." Organizers are "not planning to allow fans at the games" (AP, 10/23).

REGULAR-SEASON BUBBLE TALK: In S.F., Steve Kroner reports the West Coast Conference is "considering playing its men's and women's conference basketball seasons in a bubble in Las Vegas." The WCC has held its conference tournament at Las Vegas’ Orleans Arena since '09 and with "most students taking classes online because of the coronavirus pandemic, the thought of teams spending multiple weeks away from campus is not as outlandish as it might appear at first glance." A possibility for the conference schedule "would be for schools to spend approximately three weeks in Las Vegas, with teams playing every other day, to get in one half of the schedule, then leave Vegas for two to three weeks before returning for another three-week stint to complete the regular season." The bubble "would not be used for any nonconference games" (S.F. CHRONICLE, 10/26).

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