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The Marquette men's basketball team will begin a home-and-home series with Georgia this coming season, a source told the Journal Sentinel on Wednesday afternoon. The series will begin in Athens at Stegeman Coliseum in early December. In turn, Georgia will make a trip to Milwaukee during the pre-conference portion of the 2017-'18 season.

A reported home-and-home series between Marquette and Utah will not take place, the source confirmed. The two programs could not work out the details of the series, including dates and where it would start.

Georgia is coming off three straight 20-plus win seasons. The Bulldogs went 20-14 last season, finishing sixth in the SEC and advancing to the second round of the NIT. In 2016-'17, Georgia will bring back most of its squad, with Kenny Gaines and Charles Mann — its third and fourth leading scorers — representing the only players graduating this spring.

Marquette and Georgia have played just once before. On Dec. 27, 1974 the Golden Eagles beat the Bulldogs 100-70 in a game that was part of the Milwaukee Classic.

However, Marquette has played twice in Athens at Stegeman Coliseum. In 1971, the Warriors took a 27-0 record into the Mideast regional semifinals of the NCAA Tournament. There they lost, 60-59, to Ohio State on March 18 (for a brief synopsis of that game, click here). Two days later, Marquette beat Kentucky, 91-74, in a consolation game to finish 28-1.

The rest of Marquette's non-conference schedule remains in the works. The Golden Eagles' 2K Classic matchups in the regional and championship rounds will be announced at a later date. Marquette will host a pair of regional round games, which are expected to be played during the first full week of the season. Then it will head to Madison Square Garden for the main event on Nov. 17-18 where it will be joined by Pittsburgh, SMU and Michigan.

There are two other confirmed games outside of the 2K Classic and the matchup with Georgia. Marquette will play Vanderbilt in the Veterans Classic hosted by the Naval Academy on Nov. 11 and will host its annual matchup with Wisconsin at the BMO Harris Bradley Center during December.

The Basketball Tournament: The Golden Eagles Alumni team being put together by Daniel Fitzgerald for the third annual TBT has recently added a few players to its roster.

Joining Jerel McNeal, Dwight Burke and Trent Lockett are 5-foot-9 guard Maurice Acker (2007-'10), 6-foot-2 guard Darius Johnson-Odom (2009-'12) and 6-foot-7 forward Jamil Wilson (2011-'14). Acker has played overseas since graduating from Marquette, most recently in France.

Johnson-Odom was drafted 55th in the 2012 draft, but over the past few years has only appeared in seven NBA games (with the Lakers and 76ers). This past season, he played in both Turkey and Greece. Wilson has spent the past two seasons in the NBA Development League after going undrafted in 2014.

The Golden Eagles Alumni roster now stands at six players, with seven representing a full, eligible squad. Each team can have a max of 11 players.

Entry into the field for The Basketball Tournament is largely based on fan votes. As of Wednesday afternoon, the Golden Eagles Alumni had 620 votes, ranking eighth in the Midwest region. The top 12 teams in each of the four regions on June 1 will receive automatic berths to the tournament.

For information about The Basketball Tournament, the Golden Eagles Alumni or to vote, click here.