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With only a final contract to be signed, Marquette's men's basketball team is expected to play Ohio State University on the USS Yorktown, a decommissioned World War II aircraft carrier now moored in the harbor at Charleston, S.C., on Nov. 9, the event's organizer said Friday.

The game on the deck of the carrier, now a floating museum in what is called Patriot's Point in Mount Pleasant, S.C., will be nationally televised, organizer Mike Whalen, executive director of the Morale Entertainment Foundation.

A broadcast partner has not yet been selected.

The game provides a big promotional boost to the Marquette men's basketball program under head coach Buzz Williams and is easily the most unique venue involving the team. The Yorktown is a national historic landmark.

It was Whalen's group that organized last year's historic basketball game between the University of North Carolina and Michigan State University on the deck of the USS Carl Vinson. That game - called the Quicken Loans Carrier Classic - drew more than 8,100 fans as well as a national television audience.

Whalen said this year's event will also include a women's basketball game featuring the University of Notre Dame and Ohio State. The timing of the games has not yet been set.

Whalen said he believed there would be room for about 4,000 fans.

A title sponsor is still being sought for this year's game, but Whalen said he was confident one would be found.

"We're in negotiations with several firms," Whalen said.