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Wisconsin men’s basketball coming to Fiserv Forum for exhibition game vs. Oklahoma
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MADISON – The Wisconsin men’s basketball team will play at Fiserv Forum next season, but it won’t be against Marquette.
The Badgers announced May 29 that they will play an exhibition game against Oklahoma at Fiserv on Oct. 24. The start time and any broadcast information will be announced later.
The Sooners went 20-14 last season with a 6-12 mark in their inaugural season in the Southeastern Conference. Oklahoma coach Porter Moser was an assistant coach at UW-Milwaukee in 1995-96.
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The game was made possible by a proposal approved in January by the Division I Men’s Basketball Oversight Committee that allows teams to play up to two preseason exhibition games against any four-year school, including Division I programs. Dating to the Bo Ryan era, Wisconsin has used its one exhibition date to play a Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference program (Division III) at the Kohl Center.
Previously these exhibitions required a waiver to be played and the proceeds were to be donated to charity. Schools can now allocate the proceeds from the exhibition games however they see fit.
Division I college teams have faced each other during the preseason for years, but those matchups were considered scrimmages that were required to be played in private and without official scoring.