AIA teams are made up of former college and professional players who travel throughout the country and around the world playing college, club, and professional teams and sharing their testimonies. The mission of AIA is to use the platform of sports as a way to spread the Gospel. The game with MVNU will be the fourth game of the team’s fall tour.

"This is a great opportunity for our guys to compete against a highly-talented team as we try to find out where we stand in our preparation for our first game in just a few weeks,” said MVNU first-year coach Matt Moore. "By no means will we be able to just show up due to the amount of playing experience and basketball savvy these players have. We truly appreciate the ministry of Athletes in Action and their mission to further God’s kingdom through basketball. We would also like to thank all the fans who come out and support Cougar Basketball.”

Admission to the game will be $1.00 for students and $3.00 for adults. All proceeds from the event will go directly to AIA to help with their ministry.

MVNU, which went 23-9 last year for its twelfth 20-win season in the past 13 years and advanced to the NAIA Division II national tournament for the fourth straight season, will open the regular season at Indiana Institute of Technology on Tuesday, November 7 at 3:00 p.m.