Less than nine miles separate College Park and the Hilltop, Maryland and Georgetown, the two pinnacles of college sports in Washington D.C. Yet for years, their respective men’s basketball programs largely avoided scheduling one another in the regular season, the result of politics and tension between the two athletic departments.
That will change this season. The two programs announced Wednesday that they will meet at the Xfinity Center on Nov. 7 as part of the inaugural Gavitt Tipoff Games, a series of eight meetings between the Big Ten and Big East in honor of Big East founder Dave Gavitt.