Villanova on Friday officially announced that it had added guards Tony Chennault of Wake Forest and Dylan Ennis of Rice and lost forward Markus Kennedy to transfer.
Chennault has applied for a hardship waiver to play this season, but Ennis will the NCAA required year out.
“We are very excited to welcome Tony and Dylan to Villanova,” said head coach Jay Wright.
ESPN has announced the 12 matchups that will be part of the Second Annual SEC/Big East Challenge, which will take place Nov. 29-Dec. 1, 2012 at home sites of the participating schools.
The Big East contingent in the Challenge will include Cincinnati, DePaul, Georgetown, Marquette, Notre Dame, Providence, Rutgers, St. John’s, Seton Hall, USF, Syracuse and Villanova. Six of the Big East’s 12 participating teams reached the NCAA Championship last season. The SEC has four participating teams that reached the NCAA tournament.
The event rotates each year and Louisville, Pittsburgh and UConn are not participating this year on the Big East side and Missouri and Texas A&M are out for the SEC.
The 2012 SEC/BIG EAST Challenge includes the following matchups:
Thursday, November 29
Kentucky at Notre Dame
Marquette at Florida
South Carolina at St. John’s
Seton Hall at LSU
