Every four years the NCAA allows college teams to take a preseason trip in a foreign country. These trips usually happen right now in August, just right before school starts. The trips are a good bonding experience for the team’s players to come together. They also gain extra practices with coaches love since there are so many resections and freshman get a taste of college basketball. How much better teams get, because of these trip remains to be seen, but it doesn’t hurt. Some of the teams are playing are good teams such as national teams and some of the other teams are awful.
Below is a list of teams making a foreign trip this college basketball season. Later in the month I will have a lot of reports from these games about how certain players did.
Baylor - Toronto
California - Sweden, Norway, Denmark
DePaul - France
Duke - China, Dubai
Georgetown - China
Illinois - Italy
Iowa State - Italy
Louisville - Bahamas
LSU - Italy
Mississippi State - Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris
Oregon - Italy
Stanford - Spain
Texas A&M - Switzerland, France
USC - Brazil
Villanova -France, Netherlands
Virginia Tech - Canada
West Virginia - Italy
Notable Non- BCS teams
BYU - Greece
Belmont - Italy
Creighton - Bahamas
Drake - Australia, New Zealand
Dayton - Amsterdam, Paris
Northern Iowa - Brazil
Murray State - Canada
Saint Louis - Canada
Santa Clara - Vancouver
Wichita State - Brazil
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