Midnight Madness is less than a month away. In fact, it’s just four weeks from tonight. In honor of the occasion, we’ve updated our banner up top to be a countdown to the official opening of basketball season.

The hoops party will take place on Friday, October 15, and lead into midnight on the 16th. There’s no word yet if the event will be televised like it has been the past two years, but the one thing we know for sure is that it will take place at McDonough Gymnasium.
Note: we made the countdown look like McDonough’s scoreboard and not like the Verizon Center’s.

If you can’t wait that long for Hoya basketball, here’s some reading for you to catch up on in the meantime.

• All of our articles about Midnight Madness from year’s past can be found here: Midnight Madness Posts. Be sure to check out Tony’s anti-Midnight Madness post from two years back.
• Vice President of the Hoya Hoop Club, Dr. Tom Wong, has got some basketball posts up over at his personal blog in anticipation of Midnight Madness: A Double Hoya’s Basketball Report
• Dana O’Neill’s article on the hoops hoopla over at ESPN: First practices not so much ‘midnight’ but plenty of ‘madness’