MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Middle Tennessee Men's Basketball will once again compete in one of the nation's premier in-season tournaments in 2019, as the Blue Raiders are set to play in the Myrtle Beach Invitational this November alongside Villanova, Mississippi State, Baylor, Utah, Tulane, Ohio and Coastal Carolina.
MT will take on Villanova in the opening game of the tournament on Nov. 21 at 10:30 a.m. CT. The Wildcats fell to Purdue in the Round of 32 in last year's NCAA Tournament after winning the Big East Tournament a week earlier. Head Coach Jay Wright's team, who won the 2016 and 2018 National Championship, was slotted at No.