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Date Posted: 12:53:20pm 12/20/05 Tue,
Author: Stagophile
Subject: Jesuit Shootout

This blurb appeared in the Cincinnati Enquirer yesterday. I still think this would be a great event and apparently so don't a few others including ESPN!!!

Event for Jesuit schools never got full support
Xavier notebook

By Dustin Dow
Enquirer staff writer

OMAHA, Neb. - Just a few years ago, there was a vision that tonight's game between Creighton and Xavier would be a part of something larger.

Instead, when Xavier and Creighton meet at 8 p.m. at Qwest Center Omaha, Creighton's 15,500-seat arena, it will feature two of the most successful Jesuit basketball programs in the country, but that's it.

The plan headed by Creighton and Xavier to create a Jesuit Shootout among the nation's Division I Jesuit basketball programs never came to be.

It had the leadership of both schools' athletic directors and the support of ESPN, which wanted to model such an event after the ACC-Big Ten Challenge.

But it didn't have two of the most prominent Jesuit basketball programs, Gonzaga and Marquette, on board, which ultimately stalled the idea.

"ESPN was willing to give up commercial spots to televise ads about the Jesuit mission and the participating schools' commercials," Creighton athletic director Bruce Rasmussen said. "Gonzaga and Marquette didn't want to be a part of it. I was really disappointed with their response."

Rasmussen worked closely with former Xavier athletic director Mike Bobinski and former Xavier president, the late Fr. James E. Hoff, S.J., in developing the concept. But Gonzaga and Marquette, which have higher national profiles than other Jesuit programs, did not see a benefit in participating.

"There are a lot of people across the country that don't know what it means to be a Jesuit school," Rasmussen said. "Fr. Hoff and I thought this was a tremendous idea to promote the Jesuit mission. ESPN was very interested."

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[> Re: Jesuit Shootout -- Stagophile, 12:58:24pm 12/20/05 Tue, [1]

Discussion on the Gonzaga MB with some quotes from their Director of Basketball Operations...

http://mb19.scout.com/fzaghoopsfrm1.showMessage?topicID=20507.topic

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[> Re: Jesuit Shootout -- Antman, 02:50:30pm 12/20/05 Tue, [1]

I think it is a great idea. FU could even host the tournament.

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