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Hilltoppers to face Northern Iowa in Crossover Classic opener

The Western Kentucky men's basketball team will begin play in this week’s Bad Boy Mowers Crossover Classic against Northern Iowa at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday.

The game will air on ESPNU from the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, S.D.

Northern Iowa went 25-6 last season, won the Missouri Valley Conference regular-season title and finished with a NET ranking of 48.

WKU is 3-0 all-time against the Panthers, but the teams haven’t met since 1982. Rick Stansbury has never faced UNI as a head coach, but he was on the bench as an assistant for Texas A&M when the Aggies came back from 12 down with 35 seconds to go to beat the Panthers in the 2016 NCAA Tournament.