KNOXVILLE — The University of Tennessee men’s basketball team will play Gonzaga this season, renewing one of college basketball’s most intriguing recent rivalries.
The Volunteers, who enter the 2020-21 season as the No. 12 team in the nation, will take on the Bulldogs, the top-ranked team in the preseason, on Dec. 2 in ESPN’s Jimmy V. Classic.
The game, which was originally scheduled to be contested at Madison Square Garden in New York, will now be played in Indianapolis at Bankers Life Fieldhouse.
Tipoff is set for 7 p.m. EST and the game will be part of a double header. In the other contest, No. 2 Baylor will take on eighth-ranked Illinois.
The Vols and Gonzaga have played in six previous occasions with the Bulldogs holding a 4-2 advantage in the all-time series.
The Big Orange knocked Gonzaga from the ranks of the unbeaten in 2018 in Phoenix, Arizona.
The two teams have played twice in Seattle (2007, 2015) and once in Knoxville (2009). The two squads have also played in Nashville (2016) and in Orlando in 2009.