Center Valley, PA (November 6, 2018) - The DeSales University men's basketball team will open its 2018-19 season on Friday evening traveling to NCAA Division I Princeton University in a game that will be aired online on ESPN+ network beginning at 7:00 pm in Jadwin Gymnasium.

ESPN+ is part of the ESPN family of networks and can be seen online only for a monthly subscription fee.  Princeton is a member of the Ivy League which reached a 10-year agreement with ESPN featuring more than 1,100 conference events available on ESPN+ each year.  You can access the coverage of the game HERE by clicking on the video camera icon.

This will be the first time the Bulldogs have taken on a Division I team since the 1992-93 season when DSU played Radford University.  DeSales is 0-10 all-time vs. Division I competition including close calls vs. Fairfield (72-69 loss in 1988) and Lehigh University (71-69 loss in 1991) among its ten games.  It will be the first time head coach Scott Coval will coach his Bulldogs vs. a Division I program.

DSU is coming off its 11th 20+ win season in the last 16 years with a 20-7 overall record last year.  Junior Tracy Simsick (12.5 PPG) and senior Luke Connaghan (11.1 PPG) are returning starters having both averaged double digits last season.

Princeton University posted a 13-16 overall record last season and return its top two scorers from a year ago in seniors Devin Cannady (16.7 PPG) and Myles Stephens (15.3 PPG).