MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin men's basketball team will visit Creighton during the 2016-17 season as part of the second-annual Gavitt Tipoff Games, as announced by the Big Ten and Big East Conferences on Tuesday. One of eight inter-conference Gavitt Games matchups, the Badgers will travel to the CenturyLink Center in Omaha, Nebraska, on Tuesday, Nov. 15. 

The Gavitt Tipoff Games is a unique early-season series played between the two conferences and named in honor of Dave Gavitt, founder of the BIG EAST and a basketball visionary. The BIG EAST home games will be telecast on FS1, while Big Ten home games will air on BTN or on an ESPN network. Game times will be announced at a later date.

The Badgers and Bluejays have split a pair of previous meetings, however they have only faced off once in the last 60 years, an 84-74 Creighton win in the 2012 Las Vegas Invitational. Wisconsin has had recent success playing in Omaha, winning a pair of NCAA tournament games at the CenturyLink Center in both 2008 and 2015.

The 2016 Gavitt Tipoff Games schedule:

Monday, Nov. 14
Villanova at Purdue

Tuesday, Nov. 15
Maryland at Georgetown
Wisconsin at Creighton

Wednesday, Nov. 16
Northwestern at Butler

Thursday, Nov. 17
Seton Hall at Iowa
Providence at Ohio State
Rutgers at DePaul

Friday, Nov. 18
St. John's at Minnesota

Scheduled through 2022, the Gavitt Tipoff Games will be played on consecutive days in the first full week of the college basketball season. The series will span eight years, with games played at home sites. Each BIG EAST team will participate a minimum of six times, while Big Ten programs will take part a minimum of four times. Teams from both conferences already meet in some traditional rivalry games, and those matchups will continue in the upcoming seasons.

The unique series between the two conferences is named to honor the late Gavitt, who had a profound and lasting influence on the sport of basketball on the collegiate, professional and Olympic levels. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006.