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KU to meet Marquette in NIT Season Tip-Off; Jayhawks offer two-sport standout

Kansas basketball will meet Marquette in the semifinals of the NIT Season Tip-Off on Nov. 21 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, a KU official confirmed on Thursday.

Tennessee will take on Louisville in the other semifinal with the two winners meeting in the Nov. 23 finals following a consolation game between the semifinals losers.

Times of the games have not yet been announced by ESPN.

Marquette, which went 21-14 last season, returns junior guards Markus Howard and Sam Hauser. Howard, a 5-foot-11 player from Chandler, Ariz., averaged 20.4 points per game last season, while Hauser, who is 6-8 and from Stevens Point, Wis.