Rutgers is headed up north in November.

The Scarlet Knights will play South Carolina at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on Saturday, Nov. 16 in a regular season game sponsored by the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame, according to a contract obtained by NJ Advance Media through an open records request.

The game will be played the same day as the Rutgers football team’s home game against Ohio State. It will be a homecoming for senior Rutgers forward Eugene Omoruyi, who played at Orangeville Prep in Rexdale, Ontario, which is about two hours outside Toronto. It will also be a high-profile non-conference matchup for the Scarlet Knights, who will enter this coming season, their fourth under head coach Steve Pikiell, with their highest expectations in years.

The Hall of Fame will host and operate what the contract calls an “event” with the arena. Rutgers is expected to be one of six teams scheduled to play in a triple-header. Rutgers will be paid $75,000 to play in the game and receive 75 complementary tickets in premium seating, according to the contract. If Rutgers were to back out of the game or be unable to play, it would receive a $100,000 penalty.

It will be the first-ever meeting between Rutgers and South Carolina. The Scarlet Knights do not appear to have ever played a game in Canada, according to the program’s media guide. Rutgers last played outside the country during the 2011-12 season, when it participated in the Cancun Classic in Mexico.

The Gamecocks join Seton Hall and UMass as Rutgers’ known non-conference opponents this coming season in addition to its 20-game Big Ten slate. The Scarlet Knights are also expected to face a Big East team in the Gavitt Games and participate in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge.

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