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Syracuse Faces Cowboys In NIT Season Tipoff
7/11/2019 1:59:00 PM | Men's Basketball
The NIT Season Tip-off championship game will be contested on November 29 at 9:00 p.m. The consolation game is slated for 7:00 p.m. All four games will be televised on one of the ESPN Networks.
Tickets for the NIT Season Tip-Off at Barclays Center will go on sale on Monday, Aug. 12 at 10 a.m. ET and can be purchased online at www.barclayscenter.com, or www.ticketmaster.com. Tickets are also available at the American Express Box Office at Barclays Center. Group Tickets are available by calling 855-GROUP-BK.
In addition to the matchups at Barclays Center, the NIT Season Tip-Off will include a quartet of games at HP Field House at ESPN's Wide World of Sports Complex near Orlando. On Monday, Nov. 25, Ivy League co-champion Yale will square off against the MAC's Western Michigan, followed by 2019 Patriot League co-champion Bucknell against Seattle U of the WAC. On Tuesday, Nov. 26, all four teams will play again, with the winners from the previous day vying for the Orlando Subregional championship. All four games will be broadcast on ESPNU.
Syracuse will also host two games in the Dome before heading to Brooklyn for the NIT Season Tip-off semifinals. The Orange play Seattle U. on Saturday, November 16, and Bucknell on Saturday, November 23.This fall marks the fifth-straight year at Barclays Center for the NIT Season Tip-Off, which has been played in New York City every November since 1985. The outstanding 2018 field featured four 2019 NCAA Tournament teams in NCAA Sweet 16 participant Tennessee, NIT Season Tip-Off Champion Kansas (NCAA Second Round, Midwest), Marquette (First Round, West) and Louisville (First Round, East).
