Add another Blue Bloods to next season’s defending National League Champion UConn men’s basketball schedule.
According to a report from College Hoops Today John Rothstein On Friday, the North Carolina State Huskies will meet for the 2023 Jimmy V Classic at Madison Square Garden. The report stated that a date for the match would be decided, although the annual event usually takes place in December.
UConn is already set to play Kansas in the Big East-Big 12 Battle at Allen Fieldhouse on December 1.
UConn will also play in the 2023 Empire Classic at Madison Square Garden, which includes Indiana, Texas and Louisville.
North Carolina State, which lost to Kansas in the 2022 NCAA Championship game in its first year under head coach Hubert Davis, went 20-13 last season and finished seventh in the AFC Championship Game. Ranked preseason #1, North Carolina became the first major team in the preseason AP poll to miss the NCAA Tournament since the field expanded to 64 teams in 1985.
UNC sits alone with the third-most national championships of any men’s college basketball program with six, while UConn and head coach Dan Hurley have already embraced the idea of ”joining the #6″ after claiming the #5 title in April.
The Tar Heels hold a 5-1 advantage in the all-time series against the Huskies, even though the two programs have not met since February 13, 2005, in what was a 77-70 loss to UConn in Hartford.
While rosters aren’t set yet for either team, North Carolina star Armando Paquette has announced he’ll be returning to the program for a fifth season in 2023-24 after averaging 15.9 points and 10.4 rebounds per game last season. .
On the other side of that game is 7-foot-2 UConn rising star Donovan Clingan, who announced his return for his sophomore season shortly after the Hartford Huskies’ championship parade.
– Hunter Dickinson (@H_Dickinson24) May 4, 2023
The Kansas center game will also be a marquee after the Jayhawks landed arguably the best player entering the transfer gate in 7-foot-1 Hunter Dickinson on Thursday. Dickinson had played the previous three seasons at Michigan and was a teammate of NBA-associated Jordan Hawkins at DeMatha Catholic High School.