Iowa-Duke To Meet in Jimmy V Men’s Classic

IOWA CITY, Iowa — ESPN Occasions introduced on Thursday the matchups for the 2022 Jimmy V Males’s Basic. The boys’s school basketball doubleheader at Madison Sq. Backyard on Tuesday, Dec. 6, will function the College of Iowa versus Duke and Texas versus Illinois.

Each video games will air on ESPN, with instances to be introduced at a later date.

All 4 males’s packages superior to the 2022 NCAA Males’s Basketball Event. Defending Massive Ten Event champion Iowa is making its Jimmy V debut. Duke is undefeated in three earlier Jimmy V appearances (1998, 2000, 2016). This will even be the fourth Jimmy V look for each Illinois (2003, 2014, 2020) and Texas (2003, 2008, 2012).

The Jimmy V Basic, named for legendary school basketball coach Jim Valvano, yearly raises cash and consciousness for the V Basis for Most cancers Analysis. The boys’s traditional started in 1995 and is in its twenty eighth yr — nineteenth at Madison Sq. Backyard. The doubleheader is a part of ESPN’s V Week initiative, which makes use of platforms to speak to sports activities followers in regards to the significance of most cancers analysis. To this point, ESPN has helped increase greater than $155 million {dollars} for the V Basis. In 2021, V Week raised $13.35 million, surpassing the earlier excessive of $8.8 million in 2019.

This shall be Iowa’s fifth journey to Madison Sq. Backyard beneath head coach Fran McCaffery. The Hawkeyes superior to the NIT Championship in 2013, participated within the 2K Basic in 2014 and 2018 (champions), and competed within the 2018 Massive Ten Event.

Tickets for the doubleheader will go on sale this fall. First precedence and entry to the perfect seats shall be supplied to followers who join the pre-sale via Fevo.

Concerning the V Basis for Most cancers Analysis
The V Basis for Most cancers Analysis was based in 1993 by ESPN and the late Jim Valvano, legendary North Carolina State College basketball coach and ESPN commentator. The V Basis has funded greater than $260 million in most cancers analysis grants nationwide. Occasion proceeds profit most cancers analysis funded by the V Basis. The Basis awards game-changing grants via a aggressive course of strictly supervised by a Scientific Advisory Committee. For extra info on the V Basis, please go to v.org.