HOUGHTON, Mich. – Tickets for the Small College Basketball Hall of Fame Classic are now available. Fans can purchase tickets here. Hotels available for the weekend can be found here. 

The Huskies will head to Lakeland, Florida, for the event on Nov. 1-2 facing Dallas Baptist for the season opener on Saturday, Nov. 1 before taking on Lenoir-Rhyne Sunday. The Patriots were a Final Four team while the Bears made the Elite Eight a season ago.

2025 marks the fourth straight year that the event will feature 10 teams. The Hall of Fame Classic started in 2016 in Evansville, IN. The HOF Classic would then move to St. Joseph, MO, before heading to Lakeland, FL in 2022. During the COVID year of 2020 the event did not take place.

The HOF Classic is one of the most prominent events in NCAA Division II men's basketball. Once again this year, there will be five games on Saturday, followed by five games on Sunday. Below are the teams and matchups for this year's event. For more information on the Hall of Fame Classic and Small College basketball, please head to smallcollegebasketball.com. 

Saturday, November 1, 2025

11:00     UVA – Wise vs. Lubbock Christian
1:15       Washburn vs. Augusta
3:30       Dallas Baptist vs. Michigan Tech
5:45       Florida Southern vs. Alaska Anchorage
8:00       Daemen vs. Lenoir – Rhyne

Sunday, November 2, 2025

11:00     Augusta vs. Lubbock Christian
1:15       Dallas Baptist vs. Washburn
3:30       Lenoir – Rhyne vs. Michigan Tech
5:45       Florida Southern vs. UVA – Wise
8:00       Daemen vs. Alaska Anchorage