For the record, tonight's game is part of the second annual Glenn Wilkes Classic -- not really a tournament, but a collection of games both at campus sites and at the Ocean Center arena in Daytona Beach, Fla.

After the Utes play UW-Green Bay tonight at the Huntsman Center, they will travel to Florida to meet Mississippi on Friday and Morgan State on Saturday.

It will be interesting to see just how good this event turns out to be, considering some of the teams that are involved -- West Virginia Tech and something called Rollins College, among them -- following much offseason juggling that left the Utes with just two games in Florida instead of the three they had hoped to play.

(Maybe I shouldn't make fun of Rollins; they're Division II just like Southwest Baptist.)

For example, two of the campus-site games -- the Utes, and West Virginia Tech at Marshall -- will be played before the teams gather in Florida, but Morgan State won't play at Mississippi until the following weekend. The tournament also will feature two games on Sunday -- UW-Green Bay vs. Morgan State and Marshall vs. Mississippi -- after the Utes have departed.

Hmmm.

Whatever the case, though, the event probably can't be as, um ... "low-profile" as the San Juan Shootout in Puerto Rico, where the Utes played a couple of years ago. That was held in a stodgy, old gymnasium, with attendance topping 100 only when the vastly overmatched local team participated. I know, because we counted.