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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Dayton Flyers to play Georgetown at ESPN Events Invitational
The University of Dayton men's basketball team has learned its first opponent in the 2025 ESPN Events Invitational in Orlando. [DOWNLOAD: Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] UD will play Georgetown on Thanksgiving night, Nov. 27, at 7:30 p.m. This will be the second game of the Magic Bracket. The winner will play against either BYU or Miami in the championship game on Friday. TRENDING STORIES: Flood Advisory for parts of region; showers with heavy downpours, gusty winds possible today Family of pregnant woman found dead in sealed plastic tote issues statement Over 2K without power as storms move through parts of Miami Valley This is the fourth all-time matchup between the two schools. The last time the Flyers and Hoyas met was in the 1984 West Regional Final in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. Dayton won the first game back in 1952 at the UD Fieldhouse, but the Hoyas beat the Flyers in 1984 and the 1978 NIT. This will be UD's fourth trip overall to the ESPN Wide World of Sports in Florida. They won the event in 2011 and 2021 and finished runner-up in 2015. Overall, the Flyers are 8-1 at the event. [SIGN UP: WHIO-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
Indianapolis Star
18-06-2025
- Sport
- Indianapolis Star
Butler basketball schedules two-game series with perennial NCAA tournament team
INDIANAPOLIS — It's becoming somewhat of a rivalry over the past two seasons and will extend to home campuses. Butler basketball scheduled a home-and-home with Boise State, a program it has met each of the past two seasons. The Bulldogs will host the Broncos on Dec. 6 at Hinkle Fieldhouse before making a return trip to Idaho for the 2026-27 season. Times and TV assignments have not yet been announced. It's a quality addition to the schedule as Boise State has averaged 24.8 wins per season the past four seasons, and have three NCAA tournament berths in that span. Each of the two meetings in the all-time series have happened at neutral sites. Butler's season ended April 2 in Las Vegas at the inaugural College Basketball Crown, where the Broncos won 100-93 despite a career-high 30 points from Finley Bizjack. Butler won the first meeting between the two, 70-56, to secure fifth place in the ESPN Invitational on Nov. 26, 2023 in Orlando. The Bulldogs are headed to White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia for their early season multi-team event. It was announced Tuesday that they would play South Carolina and Virginia there and avoid a second game against Northwestern, which Butler will play in the Indy Classic on Dec. 20 at Gainbridge Fieldhouse. The rest of the known schedule includes games against Southern Indiana on Nov. 5, IU-Indy on Nov. 8 and Chicago State on Nov. 11 all at Hinkle Fieldhouse to open the season. Butler then will conclude its home-and-home series with SMU on Nov. 15 before heading to the two-game event Nov. 21 and 23. The Bulldogs will return home to play Eastern Michigan on Dec. 2. Two open preseason exhibitions were scheduled against in-state opponents. Another two-year agreement was scheduled with Notre Dame and then Indiana State was added. Former Butler player Matthew Graves is in his second season leading the Sycamores. The Bulldogs had a late addition to their 2025 recruiting class with Guerin Catholic's Bryson Cardinal, the son of former NBA forward Brian Cardinal. He's among four other freshmen heading to campus, and includes Lawrence North guard Azavier Robinson.
