Deacons will play on the afternoon of Thanksgiving in ESPN Events Invitational
Wake Forest’s full non-conference schedule for men’s basketball is now clear.
The Deacons will play Florida in its first game of the ESPN Events Invitational at 2:30 p.m. on Nov. 28, which is Thanksgiving. That’s according to a post from the event’s Twitter profile on Thursday afternoon.
The winner of that game will play the winner between Minnesota and Wichita State at 3:30 p.m. on Nov. 29; the losers of each game will play at 1 p.m. on Nov. 29. Each game will be played at State Farm Field House in Kissimmee, Fla.
The Wake Forest-Florida game is a rematch of last year’s ACC-SEC Challenge matchup, which Wake Forest won 82-71 in Winston-Salem.
Wake’s full non-conference schedule is:
Nov. 4 – vs. Coppin State
Nov. 7 – vs. N.C. A&T
Nov. 10 – vs. Michigan (in Greensboro)
Nov. 13 – vs. USC Upstate
Nov. 16 – at Xavier (Skip Prosser Classic)
Nov. 19 – vs. Western Carolina
Nov. 23 – vs. Detroit
Nov. 28 – vs. Florida (ESPN Events Invitational)
Nov. 29 – vs. Wichita State or Minnesota (ESPN Events Invitational)
Dec. 3 – at Texas A&M (ACC-SEC Challenge)
Dec. 17 – vs. James Madison