Here are the opponents for each Big East team for the 2009-10 season:


CINCINNATI
Home Connecticut , DePaul, Marquette, Notre Dame , Pittsburgh, Providence, USF, Syracuse , Villanova
Away Connecticut, Georgetown, Louisville, Notre Dame, Rutgers, St. John’s, Seton Hall, USF, West Virginia

CONNECTICUT
Home Cincinnati , DePaul, Louisville , Marquette, Notre Dame , Pittsburgh, St. John’s, Seton Hall , West Virginia
Away Cincinnati , Georgetown, Louisville , Notre Dame, Providence, Rutgers, USF, Syracuse , Villanova

DE PAUL
Home Georgetown, Louisville, Marquette , Providence, Rutgers, St. John’s, USF, Syracuse , West Virginia
Away Cincinnati, Connecticut, Marquette , Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, St. John’s, Seton Hall, Villanova

GEORGETOWN
Home Cincinnati, Connecticut, Notre Dame, Rutgers, St. John’s, Seton Hall, USF, Syracuse , Villanova
Away DePaul, Louisville, Marquette, Pittsburgh, Providence, Rutgers, Syracuse, Villanova , West Virginia

LOUISVILLE
Home Cincinnati, Connecticut , Georgetown, Notre Dame, Rutgers, St. John’s , USF, Syracuse , Villanova
Away Connecticut, DePaul, Marquette, Pittsburgh, Providence, St. John’s, Seton Hall, Syracuse, West Virginia

MARQUETTE
Home DePaul, Georgetown, Louisville, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, Providence , Rutgers, USF, Villanova
Away Cincinnati, Connecticut, DePaul , Providence, St. John’s, Seton Hall, Syracuse, Villanova, West Virginia

NOTRE DAME
Home Cincinnati , Connecticut , DePaul, Pittsburgh, Providence, St. John’s, USF, Syracuse , West Virginia
Away Cincinnati , Connecticut , Georgetown, Louisville, Marquette, Rutgers, Seton Hall, USF, Villanova

PITTSBURGH
Home DePaul, Georgetown, Louisville, Providence, Rutgers, St. John’s , Seton Hall, Villanova , West Virginia
Away Cincinnati, Connecticut, Marquette, Notre Dame, St. John’s, Seton Hall, USF, Syracuse, West Virginia

PROVIDENCE
Home Connecticut, Georgetown, Louisville, Marquette , Rutgers, Seton Hall, USF, Syracuse , West Virginia
Away Cincinnati, DePaul, Marquette , Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, St. John’s, USF, Syracuse , Villanova

RUTGERS
Home Cincinnati, Connecticut, DePaul , Georgetown , Notre Dame, St. John’s, Seton Hall, Syracuse , Villanova
Away DePaul, Georgetown, Louisville, Marquette, Pittsburgh, Providence, Seton Hall, USF, West Virginia

ST. JOHN ’S
Home Cincinnati, DePaul, Louisville, Marquette, Pittsburgh , Providence, Seton Hall, Villanova , West Virginia
Away Connecticut, DePaul , Georgetown, Louisville , Notre Dame, Pittsburgh , Rutgers, USF, Syracuse

SETON HALL
Home Cincinnati, DePaul, Louisville, Marquette, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh , Rutgers, Syracuse , West Virginia
Away Connecticut, Georgetown, Pittsburgh , Providence, Rutgers, St. John’s, USF, Villanova , West Virginia

USF
Home Cincinnati , Connecticut, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, Providence , Rutgers, St. John’s, Seton Hall , West Virginia
Away Cincinnati , DePaul, Georgetown, Louisville, Marquette, Notre Dame, Providence, Syracuse , Villanova

SYRACUSE
Home Connecticut, Georgetown , Louisville , Marquette, Pittsburgh, Providence , St. John’s , USF, Villanova
Away Cincinnati, DePaul, Georgetown , Louisville, Notre Dame, Providence , Rutgers, Seton Hall , West Virginia

VILLANOVA
Home Connecticut, DePaul, Georgetown , Marquette, Notre Dame, Providence, Seton Hall, USF, West Virginia
Away Cincinnati, Georgetown , Louisville, Marquette , Pittsburgh, Rutgers, St. John’s, Syracuse , West Virginia

WEST VIRGINIA
Home Cincinnati, Georgetown, Louisville, Marquette, Pittsburgh , Rutgers, Seton Hall, Syracuse , Villanova
Away Connecticut, DePaul, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, Providence, St. John’s, Seton Hall, USF, Villanova

Each school’s three repeat opponents are in italics

Here's a story from today's Register about UConn freshman Alex Oriakhi, who is finally a UConn student after committing to the school nearly three years ago, when he was 16. Like Emeka Okafor, Oriakhi was born in the U.S., but both his parents were born in Nigeria. One of the main reasons his father wanted him to come to UConn was because of Okafor.

Also, found this story from the ProJo earlier in the week to be interesting. Like most college basketball observers, I have my questions about John Calipari and the way he runs his program(s). But this column by Bill Reynolds certainly reveals a human side to Coach Cal.

Hasheem Thabeet is back on the UConn campus for about a week before heading out to Las Vegas to play for the Memphis Grizzlies' summer league team. According to Thabeet, his summer league teammates will include former UConn teammate Jeff Adrien, as well as ex-Husky stars Marcus Williams and Kevin Ollie.

Over the next week, Thabeet will be staying with his mother, who lives in Springfield, Mass., while working out at Gampel – lifting weights under UConn strength and conditioning coach Chris West's watch. The Grizzlies will also be sending a coach out this way to supervise Thabeet's workouts.

Once summer league ends on July 18, Thabeet will fly back to his native Tanzania, where he's been invited by President Jakaya Kikwete to speak to Parliament.

"I don't even know what to say," Thabeet said. "I'm not up on politics and things like that."

Knowing Thabeet's effervescent personality, however, it says here he'll do just fine.

"I should be good," he admits.

Prior to training camp, Thabeet will have to take part in the NBA's rookie transition program in New York City.

After being drafted by the Grizzlies as the No. 2 overall pick on Thursday night, Thabeet flew to Memphis on Friday and worked out for the team over the weekend. In between workouts, Thabeet was able to do a little house-hunting. He's honing in on some five-bedroom estates which, eventually, his mother and some other family members would move into with him.

Must be nice.

Chris Smith, the all-time leading scorer in UConn men’s basketball history, has been named boys basketball coach at his alma mater, Bridgeport’s Kolbe Cathedral.

Smith graduated from Kolbe in 1988 and was coach Jim Calhoun’s first major in-state recruiting coup. In his four years with the Huskies, Smith scored 2,145 career points, still a school record. Detroit Pistons forward Richard Hamilton is second with 2,036 (in three seasons).

Smith was selected in the second round of the 1992 NBA draft by the Minnesota Timberwolves and played three seasons for the team.