NIT Season Tip-Off Schedule Set for the Barclays Center

The Barclays Center will hold the 2015 NIT Season Tip-Off on November 26th and 27th with the semifinal games already preset.

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In one semifinal matchup, Jay Wright‘s Villanova Wildcats will take on will take on the NIT Postseason Champion Stanford Cardinal.

Jay Wright is going to be bring a surefire Top-15 squad to Brooklyn led by “Big East Player of the Year” Ryan Arcidiacano, and Daniel Ochefu in the middle.

Villanova also will be bringing five-star freshman point guard Jalen Brunson, who is the son of former Temple star point guard Rick Brunson.

Stanford will be looking to build off of their 2015 NIT Postseason Championship though they lost their top three leading scorers from last year, and will be fielding a pretty young team for 2015-16.

In the other preset matchup, the Arkansas Razorbacks will be taking on the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets.

Arkansas will be getting used to life without Bobby Portis who was drafted by the Chicago Bulls in 2015 NBA Draft.

Georgia Tech forward Marcus Georges-Hunt dribbles the ball against Miami during the second half at BankUnited Center. (Photo: Steve Mitchell, USA TODAY .

Georgia Tech will be looking to bounce back from a tough 2014-15 season that saw the Yellow Jackets finish 12-19 on the year.

The Jackets return their leading scorer Marcus Georges-Hunt who averaged 13.6 points per contest, and will have transfer Adam Smith from Virginia Tech playing in the backcourt this season.

Tech head coach Brian Gregory in a lot of people’s eyes is on the hot seat this season with Georgia Tech. But winning this kind of a tournament would enhance his chances of sticking around, coupled with of course having a strong ACC showing.

The winners of both of these games will face off on November 27th for the NIT Tip-Off Championship.

Before the championship rounds are played there will be a dozen games played at designated locations.

According to cbssports.com, East Tennessee State, Akron, Charleston Southern, and Green Bay will play in games against the four teams mentioned before.

Here is the schedule breakdown:

November 13

Green Bay at Stanford

November 15

Charleston Southern at Stanford

November 17

Green Bay at East Tennessee State

November 18

Akron at Arkansas

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