Monday, September 13, 2010

IHCC Hoops Tix Now on Sale

Ottumwa -- Season tickets for the Indian Hills Community College basketball team’s 2010-11 season are now being sold in the IHCC Athletic Office in the Hellyer Student Life Center on the Ottumwa campus.

Season tickets are $80 if purchased by the end of September. After that, they’ll be $96.

The schedule includes 16 home games, three home tournaments and a host of games against opponents that the Warriors either haven’t played before or haven’t met in a number of years.

The season opener is against Flint CC from Michigan on Thursday, November 4. Flint is also in the field for the Reed Overhead Doors Classic Nov. 5-6. Indian Hills will play Southwest Academy and Ellsworth CC in that tourney.

The following weekend, in the Klyn Automotive Classic, Indian Hills will battle Kennedy-King and John Wood CC.

After opening the season with six straight home dates, the Warriors will hit the road for six consecutive games. That stretch includes a game at Kirkwood CC, a perennial NJCAA Division II power; games against Three Rivers CC, last year’s Division I national tournament runner up, and Mineral Area in Missouri; and three games, all against quality opponents, in a Thanksgiving weekend tournament hosted by Western Nebraska CC.

The final home tournament, sponsored by Hy-Vee, is Dec. 10-11. The second half of the schedule starts with two games in a tournament at Southeastern CC. Indian Hills goes right back to West Burlington the following weekend to start the conference season against the BlackHawks. The final regular-season game is at home against Marshalltown Feb. 19.

Southeastern ended the Warriors’ season last year with back-to-back wins in the series to determine the Region 11 postseason champion. Indian Hills won the regular-season conference title with a 5-1 mark and finished the season with a 25-8 record.

The 2010-11 IHCC basketball schedule can be found on the Indian Hills website at www.indianhills.edu/athletics/basketball.