Three Rivers, Dyersburg State, Mineral Area, and Philander Smith Colleges will face off in a pre-season basketball jamboree in Sikeston and hosted by Three Rivers.

The Three Rivers College Sikeston Jamboree will be held in the Sikeston High School Field House on Saturday Oct. 8. Admission is free.

The game schedule for the jamboree includes:

• 10:00 a.m. -  Three Rivers vs. Dyersburg St.
• 11:45 a.m. -  Mineral Area vs. Philander Smith
• 1:30 p.m. -  Mineral Area vs. Dyersburg St.
• 3:15 p.m. - Three Rivers vs. Philander Smith

Three Rivers head coach Gene Bess has a record of 1,133 career wins with two national championship wins; he is the winningest coach in college basketball history. His son and former Three Rivers player Brian Bess is now an assistant coach for the Raiders.

Also assistant with coaching the 3R squad is Will Durden, a 2000 graduate of Portageville High School. Durden played at Three Rivers in 2003 and went on to play at Austin Peay University.

The teams from Dyersburg, Mineral Area and Philander Smith have varying connections to Three Rivers Basketball.

Thurlon "Sam" Weaver, head coach at Philander Smith, was named MVP at the NJCAA National Tournament in 1979 while playing for Three Rivers. He formerly served as head coach at Northern Iowa, Alcorn State and Henderson State Universities. Weaver was an assistant coach at Southeast Missouri State, SIU, Mississippi State and Iowa State. His assistant coach is Anton McKinney. McKinney graduated from Kennett high school in 2000, played at Three Rivers in 2002 and went on to play at Drury University.

Head coach and Dyersburg Athletic Director Alan Barnett is a former Raider from 1983. Barnett later played and coached at Southeast Missouri State University.

The Mineral Area basketball team is coached by Corey Tate. He played at University of Missouri from 1995-'97. His assistant coach is Dontavius Jones, a Kennett High School graduate. Mineral Area College has also recruited two players from last year's Kennett High School team.

Among this year's Raider team is Sikeston graduate Will Holifield. Holifield is the son of Sikeston head coach Gregg Holifield, and played on the 30-0 state championship team.

The Three Rivers team includes other area players such as Jay Raulston and Chris Kilgore from Poplar Bluff, Donnell Minnis from Portageville, and Jordan McGowan from Bernie.

For more information on the Sikeston Jamboree, contact Michelle Felter Reynolds, eastern campus development officer, at 573-472-6650 or michellereynolds@trcc.edu.