Adidas It takes 5ive Classic Kicks Off

The Adidas It takes 5ive Classic opened up play yesterday in Cincinnati at the Fifth Third Bank Arena on the Cincinnati campus, featuring many of the best travel teams that Adidas has in its stables, playing under the watchful eyes of such coaches as North Carolina's Roy Williams, Ohio State's Thad Matta, UCLA's Ben Howland and new Kentucky head coach Billy Gillispie. Some of the other head coaches in attendance that caught our eye were Leonard Hamilton (Florida State); Kelvin Sampson (Indiana); Willis Wilson (Rice); David Odom (South Carolina); Skip Prosser (Wake Forest); Paul Hewitt (Georgia Tech); Matt Painter (Purdue), Mick Cronin (Cincinnati); Todd Lickliter (Iowa); Sean Miller (Xavier); Bobby Huggins (West Virginia); Jim Les (Bradley); Brad Brownell (Wright State); Norm Roberts (St. John's); Bill Self (Kansas); and Herb Sendek (Arizona State).