Last week, Andrew Wiseman and I attended the BB&T Classic at the Verizon Center, a college basketball event that raises funds for the Children’s Charities Foundation and is organized by local sports writer John Feinstein. While this year marked the 17th year of the Classic, it may have very well been the weakest-attended since the event started back in 1995.

Even though it will be difficult to top one of the best NCAA Tournaments in recent memory, local college basketball fans can already start looking forward to next season — and that means the BB&T Classic. The Classic returns to a triple-header format for the first time since 2007 this year. The 2010 edition’s marquee game will feature the Maryland Terrapins against the Temple Owls in an ACC/Atlantic-10 match-up. Both teams reached the Tournament…

by DCist contributor Brett Gellman Now that we’re several months removed from March Madness and entering a dead period for college sports, any sort of NCAA-related news helps kill the time before college football kicks off. I mean, Strike Bethesda was showing the College Wakeboarding Championships on the CBS College Sports network on its screens, for crying out loud. It. Is. That. Slow. Anyway, at least we now know who will play in this…