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-- The Creighton men's basketball team will face San Diego State on Nov. 28 as part of the 19th Annual Continental Tire Las Vegas Invitational at Orleans Arena. The game will tip at 9:30 p.m. Central time and be televised by FS1.Iowa and Texas Tech will also meet on the other side of the bracket, playing at 7 p.m. Central. The final round of the Las Vegas Invitational will take place on Nov. 29, with Thursday's winners facing each other at 7 p.m. Central in the championship game before Thursday's losing teams meet in the consolation game at 9:30 p.m. Central.Creighton is 4-2 all-time against San Diego State in a series that began in Omaha in 1948. Creighton overcame a 17-point deficit to win an 85-83 thriller at Viejas Arena in 2011 that ranks as one of the program's more impressive road wins in recent memory. The teams last met in 2013 in the Wooden Legacy in Fullerton, Calif., an 86-80 Aztec victory.On the heels of its 19th campaign of 20+ wins in the last 21 seasons, Creighton men's basketball is slated to return 92 percent of its scoring, 89 percent of its rebounding and 98 percent of its starts to the floor in 2019-20.San Diego State returns six of its top nine scorers off a team that went 21-13 and advanced to the championship game of the Mountain West Conference Tournament in 2019. The Aztecs are one of nine schools to win 19 or more games each of the last 14 seasons and one of 29 schools to participate in seven of the last 10 NCAA Tournaments.Texas Tech advanced to the NCAA National Championship final in 2019 where it finished as the national runner-up after an overtime loss to Virginia in the title game. The Red Raiders finished the season with a 31-7 overall record, including going 14-4 in conference play to win the program's first Big 12 Conference regular-season championship.The University of Iowa won 23 games this past season and earned the program's 26th NCAA Tournament appearance under head coach Fran McCaffery. The 23 wins are its second highest total in 13 years and most under McCaffery for an NCAA Tournament team. Iowa, who was nationally-ranked for 16 straight weeks this past season, graduates one senior from its roster.FS1 will present coverage of four 2019 Continental Tire Las Vegas Invitational games played at Orleans Arena, televising two games on Thursday, Nov. 28, and the championship and consolation games on Friday, Nov. 29.Always one of the top early season tournaments of the college basketball season, the past champions of the Continental Tire Las Vegas Invitational reads like a "Who's Who" of college basketball: Kansas (2006 and 2010), North Carolina (2007), Kentucky (2008) and Creighton (2012), UCLA (2013) and Michigan State (2018).. In the 2011 title game, UNLV upset #1 North Carolina 90-80. Illinois (2005 and 2014), Oklahoma State (2009), West Virginia (2015) Butler (2016) and Arizona State (2017).Each team will play four games in the Invitational – the first two at on-campus sites and the final two rounds at the Orleans Arena November 28-29. Those two on-campus games, as well as the remainder of Creighton's non-conference schedule, will be announced within the next week.Hosting more than 200 events each year, Orleans Arena is located just west of the Las Vegas strip and was recently named the #1 mid-size arena in the USA by Venues Today magazine. This is the 14th straight year the tournament has been played at Orleans Arena.Tickets for the final rounds in Las Vegas are available at the Orleans Arena box office via the internet at www.orleansarena.com.Texas Tech vs. Iowa - 7:00 p.m. (CT)San Diego State vs. Creighton – 9:30 (CT)Championship – 7:00 p.m. (CT)Consolation – 9:30 p.m. (CT)