Men's Basketball Release (03-04) - Meet the Team - Guilford College

MEET GUILFORD'S MEN'S BASKETBALL TEAM THIS WEEKEND

Greensboro, NC (10/29/03) -- Guilford College's men's basketball team will participate in two events this weekend aimed at introducing the community to the team and its first-year head coach, Tom Palombo. Both campus events are free and open to the public.

The men's basketball unit will join with Guilford's women's team to distribute candy to local youth on Halloween this Friday night from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. Trick-or-treaters are invited to meet the teams in the first floor lobby of Alumni Gym on Guilford's campus.

This Saturday night (Nov. 1) the men's basketball team will conduct an intrasquad scrimmage in the Ragan-Brown Field House on Guilford's campus at 7:00 pm. The contest will include Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) officials and gives fans a chance to see the 2003-04 edition of the Quakers' basketball team. Guilford officially opens the season November 21 in a tournament hosted by Franklin & Marshall and plays its first home game December 3 versus Washington and Lee.

The Quakers return 10 letter winners from last year's 12-14 team, which earned the fifth seed for the ODAC Tournament, its highest seeding in school history. Another letter winner, 6-4 senior forward Thomas Swindell (High Point, NC/Southwest Guilford), also returned to the team this year after spending 2002-03 studying in Spain.

For more information these events, please contact assistant men's basketball coach Tim Kaine at 336-316-2175.