On Friday, it was announced that the Penn State men’s basketball will play host to Butler in the 2022 Gavitt Tipoff Games on Monday, Nov. 14.
This will be the third matchup all-time between the schools and the first time since 1992. Penn State won the last matchup on Feb. 12, 1992, by a score of 67-64.
It's official…Bulldogs are comin' to town for the 2022 Gavitt Games 🗓️
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The Gavitt Tipoff Games are early regular-season matchups featuring teams from the Big Ten playing against a team from the Big East. The event is named after Big East founder Dave Gavitt, who also served as the first commissioner of the Big East.
Penn State is 2-1 all-time in Gavitt Games matchups with the last time that they played in the tipoff classic, they won 81-66 at Georgetown in 2019. Penn State split a home and home with DePaul in their only other Gavitt games matchups, with each team winning at home in 2015 and 2018 respectively.
Add Nittany Sports Now as a preferred source in Google! Click here to add us.This matchup will mark the return of head coach Thad Matta, who was an assistant at Butler from 1997-2000, and as head coach from 2000-01 before he became the head coach at Xavier and Ohio State.
Penn State will look to improve on a 14-17 record with a group of veteran players returning with Myles Dread, Jaden Pickett, and Seth Lundy and the highest-rated recruiting class in school history, headlined by Evan McHaffey, Jameel Brown, and Keeba Njie and new transfers Camryn Winter. and Andrew Funk.
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