Mark Alesia

mark.alesia@indystar.com

Indiana University has signed a contract with ESPN for the men's basketball team to play at Pearl Harbor in 2016.

The contract, obtained by The Star through a public records request, says the game will be Nov. 11, 2016, as part of the Armed Forces Classic. No opponent is listed.

In December, the Honolulu Star Advertiser reported that there would be two games that day at the Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. No teams have been announced. The games will be less than a month before the 75th anniversary of the attack that brought the U.S. into World War II.

An ESPN reporter wrote in 2013 that the games would be played in a hangar at the base on the Hawaiian island of Oahu.

Another contract obtained by The Star showed that the Crossroads Classic has been extended three years through 2019. The Crossroads Classic is a doubleheader involving IU, Purdue, Butler and Notre Dame at Bankers Life Fieldhouse.

The Armed Forces Classic is an annual event, started in 2012, that features Division I college basketball games at military bases.

This year's game is between Louisville and Minnesota at the U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Borinquen in Puerto Rico. It features a match of Louisville coach Rick Pitino against his son Richard, Minnesota's coach.

IU plays in Hawaii in November 2015 at the Maui Invitational.

Dawn Mitchell contributed to this story

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