New London — The Coast Guard Academy men's basketball team will take part in the 2019 Armed Forces Classic at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska.

The Bears will open the 2019-2020 season against Division II Alaska-Anchorage while Baylor will take on Washington in the second game of the doubleheader. The Armed Forces Classic is owned and operated by ESPN Events, a division of ESPN.

"This is a great opportunity for our program to travel and be associated with The Armed Forces Classic and represent the service on the joint base and very near a Coast Guard station," Coast Guard coach Kevin Jaskiewicz said in a release. "It will be a good for our cadets to have a chance to go out and see another part of the Coast Guard and get to play in front of a national audience."

This will mark the second time that Coast Guard has been invited to take part in the event. The Bears competed in the 2014 Armed Forces Classic at U.S. Coast Guard's Air Station Borinquen in Puerto Rico against Hampden-Sydney (Louisville played Minnesota in the second game).

The inaugural game on Nov. 9, 2012 saw unranked UConn upset nationally-ranked Michigan State 66-62 from inside a C-5 transport airplane hangar on Ramstein Air Base in Germany.