HIGH POINT, N.C. – The High Point University men’s basketball team’s game at SEC foe Georgia will air live on ESPNU on Wednesday, November 25.
The contest between the Panthers and Bulldogs will tip at 5 p.m. inside Stegeman Coliseum in Athens, Ga. It will mark the second meeting between the schools and HPU’s 12th all-time game against an SEC opponent.
The game is HPU’s first nationally televised game announced so far for 2015-16. The Panthers appeared on the ESPN Family of Networks nine times in 2014-15, including three ESPNU contests.
High Point returns 11 of 15 letter winners from last season’s Big South regular season championship team, including three-time all-Big South First Team selection and 2014 AP All-American John Brown. The Panthers bring back 76 percent of their scoring and 76 percent of their rebounding from a year ago.
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About the Panthers: The High Point University men’s basketball team is coming off a record-breaking 2014-15 season that saw the Panthers set new Div. I program records for wins (23), Big South wins (13), road wins (9) and Big South road wins (6). HPU advanced to the postseason for the third-straight year and earned its first ever postseason win with a victory over UMES in the CIT. HPU is the winningest Big South program over the past three years and is one of just six schools nationally to have won a regular season conference title in each of the past three campaigns, joining Gonzaga, Kansas, Davidson, Harvard and Stephen F. Austin.