For the second year in a row, All-GSAC center David Burgess will lead the Cougars against a Pac-10 team.

Published

October 23, 2008

Tickets for the Azusa Pacific men's basketball game vs. USC Nov. 3 at the Galen Center go on sale Saturday, Oct. 25, during homecoming of the Cougar football game vs. Dixie State College.

Tickets are $10 a piece, $5 for Azusa Pacific students with ID and can be purchased via cash, check or credit card at the Blackout Table beginning at 5 p.m. Saturday. 

This is the first-ever meeting between Azusa Pacific and USC in men's basketball.  The Trojans are coming off back-to-back NCAA Tournament berths and are under the direction of fouth-year head coach Tim Floyd.  Azusa Pacific, which has made 13 consecutive NAIA Tournament trips (second longest streak in the nation), is the winningest collegiate program in California over the past 16 years.

Remaining tickets will go on sale through the Felix Event Center ticket office on Monday, Oct. 27, beginning at 8:30 a.m.

This marks the second straight year Azusa Pacific opens a season with an exhibition game against a Pac-10 foe.  Last year, the Cougars visited UCLA at Pauley Pavilion.