NEW YORK (AP) Defending national champion Villanova will play at least three times at Madison Square Garden during the upcoming season, part of a 2018-19 college basketball schedule that also features Duke, Kentucky and Syracuse visiting what's been dubbed The World's Most Famous Arena.

Florida, Maryland, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, Oregon and West Virginia are among the other programs headed to MSG.

Coming off their second NCAA title in three years, coach Jay Wright and the Wildcats make the short trip up from the Philadelphia suburbs to face new coach Dan Hurley and UConn on Dec. 22 in the renewal of an old Big East rivalry.