Cable Car Classic Nov 13, 14, 15

[MU/Panther]

Denver
Fri Nov 13, 2015
6:30 PM CT
Santa Clara, Calif.
Radio: 1130 WISN



Lipscomb
Sat Nov 14, 2015
7:30 PM CT
Santa Clara, Calif.
Radio: 1130 WISN



Santa Clara
Sun Nov 15, 2015
4:30 PM CT
Santa Clara, Calif.
Radio: 1130 WISN

[MU/Panther]

About the Cable Car Classic
In 1967, the Cable Car Classic was founded by Art Santo Domingo, a former public relations director of the San Francisco Giants, and his long-time friend, the late Harry Jupiter, a sports writer for the San Francisco Examiner, who passed away six years ago. The tournament has historically played around the Christmas holiday, though two years ago held on Thanksgiving weekend.

In 32 of the tournament's 48 years, the Classic has featured a team that received a bid to the NCAA Tournament just months later. For 10 years it has featured multiple teams who would later advance. The 1995 Cable Car Classic proved to be one of the strongest fields with all four teams advancing to the 1996 NCAA Tournament in March. Penn State won the Cable Car Classic with Georgia Tech, Santa Clara and Bradley also making the postseason. Georgia Tech won the ACC that year as well.

Those participating in past Cable Car Classics read like a who's who in college basketball history. From the Santa Clara teams of the 1960's and '70's that featured the talents of Bud Ogden, Dennis Awtrey and Kurt Rambis and the USF squads, led by Kevin Restani, Winford Boynes and Bill Cartwright to traditional basketball powers such as Dean Smith's North Carolina Tar Heels featuring Michael Jordan and James Worthy and the Ralph Sampson-led Virginia Cavaliers, to the '90s with Stephen Marbury of Georgia Tech to this century's teams, including one of the Air Force Academy's best-ever teams in 2006.

[Jimmy Lemke]

That opening victory was solid.