The Champions Classic announced Wednesday that Duke, Kansas, Kentucky and Michigan State will continue playing in the four-team event through 2019.
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The Jayhawks will play Duke in this year’s Champions Classic at 8:30 p.m. on November 15 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. “It’s become one of the premier college basketball events on the national schedule every year”.
“We’re excited and honored to be a part of the Champions Classic for another three years”, Kentucky head coach John Calipari said, via the team’s official site.
The four schools in the Champions Classic have combined to win a whopping 18 NCAA titles. Chicago will host in 2017, Indianapolis in 2018 and NY again in 2019. The teams will return to Madison Square Garden for the same matchups happening this year again in 2019.
The Duke-Kentucky game last season drew a 2.0 rating, the highest-rated regular-season game last season. This year, Duke will take on Kansas at 9:30 p.m.at Madison Square Garden in NY, with Kentucky and Michigan State doing battle in the evening’s first game.
College basketball’s season-opening marquee event, the Champions Classic, which has pitted the best against the best for the last six seasons, was renewed and will continue through the 2019 season. Michigan State beat Kansas, 79-73, previous year in Chicago. It pitted the No. 1-ranked Wildcats vs. the No. 2-ranked Spartans in the first regular-season matchup between the two top-rated teams since 2008. “With the Champions Classic, the student-athlete wins and the fans win”. KU is 1-4 in the Champions Classic having defeated Duke, 94-83, in 2013 in Chicago.
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United Kingdom has won each of its past two games in the Champions Classic and has been ranked in the top three in the country at the time of the event in each of the first five years.
