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2014 college basketball Tip-Off Marathon schedule released

Start planning your sleep schedules for the third week of November because the 2014 Tip-Off Marathon lineup has been released.

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ESPN has released its full schedule for the 2014 Tip-Off Marathon, which will once again serve as the unofficial opening night of the college hoops season.

For the fourth straight year, the marathon will be headlined by the Champions Classic doubleheader, which will feature Duke taking on Michigan State, and then a potential top five showdown between Kentucky and Kansas. Those games will both be played in Indianapolis.

Also highlighting the marathon will be Florida and Miami meeting in the regular season for the first time since 2005, a potential battle of ranked foes featuring SMU and Gonzaga, and Wichita State looking to defend its regular season winning streak (which dates back to March of 2013) against Memphis.

Here’s the complete schedule for the event:

Date Time (ET) Game Network
Mon, Nov 17 7 p.m. Baylor aKentucky women ESPN2
Miami at Florida ESPNU
9 p.m. Connecticut at Stanford women ESPN2
11 p.m. SMU at Gonzaga ESPN2
Legends Classic: Detroit at Oregon ESPNU
Tue, Nov 18 1 a.m. Auburn at Colorado ESPN2
3 a.m. New Mexico State at Saint Mary's ESPN2
5 a.m. High Point at Hawaii ESPN2
7 a.m. Iona at Wofford ESPN2
9 a.m. Northern Iowa at Stephen F. Austin ESPN2
11 a.m. Manhattan at UMass ESPN2
Noon Baylor at South Carolina ESPN
2 p.m. Wichita State vs. Memphis (Sioux Falls, S.D.) ESPN
4 p.m. Utah at San Diego State ESPN
6 p.m. College GameDay (Bankers Life Fieldhouse, Indianapolis) ESPN
Legends Classic: Toledo at VCU ESPNU
7 p.m. State Farm Champions Classic (Bankers Life Fieldhouse, Indianapolis): Michigan State vs. Duke ESPN
7:30 p.m. Marquette at Ohio State ESPN2
9:30 p.m. State Farm Champions Classic (Bankers Life Fieldhouse, Indianapolis): Kansas vs. Kentucky ESPN
9:30 p.m. Texas Tech at LSU ESPN2
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