Badgers to face Creighton next season in Gavitt Tipoff Games
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Sunday, Feb. 21: Wisconsin interim head coach Greg Gard (right) talks with (from left to right) Zak Showalter, Vitto Brown, Nigel Hayes, Bronson Koenig and Ethan Happ (bent over) during the second half against Illinois. Wisconsin won 69-60.
The Wisconsin Badgers and the rest of the Big Ten will take on the Big East in the second edition of the Gavitt Tipoff Games next season as part of a partnership between the two conferences that will run through 2022.
Named for Big East founder Dave Gavitt, the series kicks off on the first weekend of the college basketball season, Monday, Nov. 14 at Omaha, Nebraska's CenturyLink Center, featuring a matchup between Villanova and Purdue, before the Badgers take on Creighton on Nov. 15.
The meeting is the first between the Badgers and the Bluejays since 2012, when Wisconsin fell 84-74, and just the third meeting all-time.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The full Gavitt Tipoff Games schedule
Monday, Nov. 14
Villanova at Purdue
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Tuesday, Nov. 15
Maryland at Georgetown
Wisconsin at Creighton
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Wednesday, Nov. 16
Northwestern at Butler
Thursday, Nov. 17
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Seton Hall at Iowa
Providence at Ohio State
Rutgers at DePaul
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Friday, Nov. 18
St. John's at Minnesota