The Pac-12 Conference announced today that the inaugural men’s basketball China Game featuring the Washington Huskies and Texas Longhorns will be played Nov. 14 at the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Shanghai. Longtime Pac-12 partner Federation of University Sports of China (FUSC), which operates under China’s Ministry of Education, will serve as the co-host for the game.
This event is a major milestone in the Pac-12’s Globalization Initiative, an unprecedented effort to showcase the Conference and its member institutions in China, and to promote goodwill and transformative life experiences through student-athlete exchanges and sport. With this game, the Pac-12 will become the first U.