Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Marquette will play at Indiana next season

- Ben Steele

The Marquette men's basketball team added another big name to its 2018-'19 nonconfere­nce schedule.

The Golden Eagles will play at Indiana on Nov. 14 as part of the Gavitt Games, an annual competitio­n between Big East and Big Ten teams.

The time of the matchup has not been set.

It will be the 10th game between the schools and first since Nov. 23, 2001, when MU beat Indiana, 50-49, in the semifinals of the Great Alaska Shootout in Anchorage.

The Hoosiers are 7-2 in the series. The Golden Eagles' other scheduled nonconfere­nce games include home games against Kansas State, which should boast a strong team, and state rival Wisconsin.

MU also will be playing in the Preseason NIT at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Nov. 21 and 23. The event has a stellar field that includes Kansas, Louisville and Tennessee.

Indiana finished 16-15 last season, its first under head coach Archie Miller. Former MU coach Tom Crean was fired in 2017 after coaching the Hoosiers for nine seasons.

Miller fired up the fan base by landing lauded 2018 recruit Romeo Langford, a 6-foot-6 guard from New Albany, Ind.

MU lost to Purdue, 86-71, in last season's Gavitt Games matchup.

The Gavitt Games open Nov. 13 with Georgetown at Illinois and Wisconsin at Xavier. The Badgers also played Xavier last year, with the Musketeers winning, 80-70, in Madison.

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