Marquette will welcome three men’s basketball teams to Milwaukee in early November as part of a round-robin tournament the program is calling the Marquette Challenge, and the event includes an MU game at the Al McGuire Center.
Stony Brook, George Mason and Central Michigan will join Marquette in the tournament, with Stony Brook facing Marquette on Nov. 4 to start the 2023-24 season. Central Michigan then faces Marquette on Nov. 11, with both games at Fiserv Forum.
In between comes a game against George Mason on Nov. 8 at the Al McGuire Center campus. Tickets for this game will only be available to Marquette students.
The other teams will meet at their own locations.
George Mason, located in Fairfax County, Virginia, will host Stony Brook and Central Michigan. George Mason is perhaps best known to Marquette fans as the school where standout point guard Tyler Kolek began his career before transferring to MU and becoming the Big East Player of the Year.
Central Michigan, located in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, will host Stony Brook to close out the tournament.
The remaining Marquette Non-Conference Schedule will be announced in the coming weeks. The program already has dates scheduled at home against Purdue It is Wisconsin, in addition to road games in Maryland and Iowa State and a neutral-site game against Georgia in the Bahamas (not as part of the Battle 4 Atlantis Tournament, but at the same location).
This article originally appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Marquette basketball will be part of four-team round-robin ‘Challenge’
