Your Georgetown Hoyas won't play until Wednesday night when they host the Lehigh Mountain Hawks, but basketball fans will be celebrating the season opener today. Fox Sports 1 will televise live 8-game look-ins with BIG EAST programming tonight starting at 6:30 p.m.

Let's face it, the matchups may not matter to basketball-hungry BIG EAST fans, but here are the games:

• Fordham at St. John's 6:30 p.m
• Missouri State at Butler 6:45 p.m
• Central Connecticut at Providence 7:00 p.m
• St. Peter's at Seton Hall 7:30 p.m
• Texas Southern at Xavier 7:30 p.m
• Southern Indiana at DePaul 8 p.m
• Lafayette College at Villanova 8 p.m
• Stony Brook at Marquette 8:30 p.m

Additionally, the Hoyas' first opponent will be Northwestern on Peacock at 8:00 p.m. ET.

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Lehigh opens 2024-25 campaign at Northwestern | Lehigh Sports

After months of preparation, the 2024-25 college basketball season is upon us. Lehigh men's basketball will begin its campaign with four consecutive road games, beginning with a date against the Northwestern Wildcats in Evanston, Illinois on November 4th.

Lehigh's matchup against Northwestern will be the first of 11 non-league games for the Mountain Hawks before Patriot League play. Lehigh will also face Georgetown, UCLA and Dayton, among others, as part of its non-league schedule…

The Mountain Hawks enter the 2024-25 season having appeared in a Patriot League championship game for the first time since 2017. Lehigh returns five players who started 15 or more games, including former All-Patriot League players Tyler Whitney-Sidney and Keith Higgins Jr. Other returning players who played significant minutes in 2023-24 include the Sophomores Cam Gillus, Nasir Whitlock and Joshua Ingram, junior Bube Momah and senior Ben Knostman. Head coach Dr. Brett Reed begins his 18th season at the helm of the Lehigh men's basketball program.

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In addition to the transfers, Georgetown has nine freshmen on the team, led by forwards Caleb Williams and Drew McKenna. Both are DMV products and both should be first-year contributors to Cooley.

In the second year under Cooley, success will be measured by improvement. The Hoyas need to win more than two games in the Big East this season.

They may find it difficult to do this. However, if the new transfers and true freshman work well together and everything falls into place, perhaps the Hoyas could rise from the basement of the Big East.

How to Watch Lehigh vs. Northwestern Men's Basketball: Schedule, TV/Stream Info, Previews | NBC Sports

Lehigh went 14-18 and 9-9 in the Patriots League last season, but veteran head coach Brett Reed is known to have hatched the right plan for a big game. Along with NBA star CJ McCollum, he led the Mountain Hawks to one of the biggest upsets in college basketball history when Lehigh defeated Duke during the 2012 NCAA Tournament.

Last season, the Mountain Hawks were one game away from reaching the NCAA Tournament as they lost to Colgate in the Patriot League Tournament Championship…

Lehigh will lean on Tyler Whitney-Sidney and Keith Higgins Jr. to return the scoring force, and point guard Cam Gillus as a lead playmaker.

Whitney-Sidney averaged 15.2 points per game last season and was named an All-Patriot League selection in the 2024-25 preseason, while Higgins Jr. averaged 12.6 points per game a year ago and was named All -Patriot League first team was selected.

Whitney-Sidney lands on preseason All-Patriot League team, Lehigh finishes fifth | Lehigh Sports

Senior guard Tyler Whitney-Sidney was named to the Preseason Men's Basketball All-Patriot League team, the league announced Thursday morning. Additionally, the Mountain Hawks were picked to finish fifth…

Since arriving on campus in 2021, Whitney-Sidney has made a lasting impression every season. The Somerville, Massachusetts, native earned All-Rookie honors as a freshman, third-team All-League selection as a sophomore and first-team All-League selection last year as a junior. Whitney-Sidney led the Mountain Hawks with a career-high 15.2 points per game and 65 assists this season. He scored more than 20 points eight times and had a 47.5% field goal percentage, the highest of his career.

Joining Whitney-Sidney is Keith Higgins Jr., who was selected to the 2023 All-Patriot League first team and averaged 12.6 points per game in 23 games played. Sophomore Cam Gillus returns as the team's starting point guard after earning All-Tournament honors a season ago. Sophomores Joshua Ingram, Nasir Whitlock and senior Ben Knostman will look to provide quality backcourt depth, while junior Bube Momah returns as a key frontcourt player for the Mountain Hawks.