The Purdue Boilermakers will host the Xavier Musketeers in the final installment of the Gavitt Games that pitted the Big East versus the B1G early in the college basketball season. This will mark the 8th meeting between the two schools with Xavier holding a 2-5 advantage, winning five in a row in the series dating back to the 2002-2003 season. The programs have not met since a 2012-2013 game at Mackey Arenda that the Musketeers won 63-57.
Xavier is not ranked but would be placed 36th with 8 votes in the AP Poll while they were 31st in the preseason coaches poll with 17 votes.