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Report: DePaul men’s basketball to play at Illinois next season

A report by Jon Rothstein of CBS Sports said that DePaul men’s basketball will play Illinois for the first time since 1957.

Illinois will host DePaul in the 2017 Gavitt Games, per a source.

— Jon Rothstein (@JonRothstein) May 20, 2017

The Gavitt Tipoff Games is a series of games played every year between eight members of the Big East against eight members of the Big 10 in honor of the first commissioner of the Big East conference Dave Gavitt. The series started in 2015 and DePaul has played in both series, losing to Penn State in 2015 and then falling to Rutgers in 2016.