Kansas University’s men’s basketball team apparently will meet a familiar foe, Holy Cross, in a first-round Preseason National Invitational Tournament game in November in Allen Fieldhouse.

Although no official announcement has yet been made, sources from the East Coast indicated the Jayhawks would meet the Crusaders.

KU defeated Holy Cross, 70-59, in a first-round 2002 NCAA Tournament game.

The No. 1-seeded Jayhawks needed a 14-4 run in the final 6:05 to put away No. 16 Holy Cross. The pesky Patriot League team finished the 2001-02 season with an 18-15 record.

Holy Cross coach Ralph Willard loses just one starter from last season guard Ryan Serravale, who averaged 12.2 points a game.

Tim Szatko, a 6-foot-8 forward from Naperville, Ill., is the Crusaders’ leading returning scorer at 13.6 ppg. Szatko hit four of 19 shots and scored 13 points versus KU.

It was earlier believed Kansas would meet South Florida in the NIT, which opens with two games on campus sites, then moves to New York for the semifinals the day before Thanksgiving. It is believed South Florida will not be competing in the tournament because of a problem involving too many exempt games on the schedule.

Official pairings have not yet been released by the NIT.