Below is the schedule for this year’s Gavitt Tipoff Games.
Eight teams in this year’s event advanced to the NCAA Tournament last season. The eight NCAA teams are Butler, Villanova, Providence, Seton Hall, Purdue, Maryland, Wisconsin, and Iowa. Creighton and Ohio State played in the NIT.
The unique series between the two conferences is named to honor the late Dave Gavitt, who founded the BIG EAST and had a profound and lasting influence on the sport of basketball on the collegiate, professional and Olympic levels. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006.
Scheduled through 2022, the Gavitt Tipoff Games will be played on consecutive days in the first full week of the college basketball season. The series will span eight years, with games played at home sites. Each BIG EAST team will participate a minimum of six times, while Big Ten programs will take part a minimum of four times. Teams from both conferences already meet in some traditional rivalry games, and those matchups will continue in the upcoming seasons.
The 2016 Gavitt Tipoff Games schedule:
Monday, Nov. 14
Villanova at Purdue
Tuesday, Nov. 15
Maryland at Georgetown
Wisconsin at Creighton
Wednesday, Nov. 16
Northwestern at Butler
Thursday, Nov. 17
Seton Hall at Iowa
Providence at Ohio State
Rutgers at DePaul
Friday, Nov. 18
St. John’s at Minnesota
NBelow is the schedule for this year’s Gavitt Tipoff Games.