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Oklahoma Wesleyan athletics,got some monster news on Monday.

Oklahoma Wesleyan and Bartlesville have been selected as a host of the opening rounds of the NAIA National Men’s Basketball Tournament.

That means two rounds of games and a pod of four teams will play their NAIA Tournament games at the Mueller Sports Center in Bartlesville starting a week from Friday, March 13.

OKWU was selected as a host after being a consensus top five team in the country following the Eagle’s regular season Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference title and 27-3 record.

We will have more on who is coming to Bartlesville and the schedule for the games moving forward when the bracket comes out.

Friends, Tuesday's Eagle opponent out of Wichita, and Langston were also selected as hosts, meaning three of the 16 sites nationally are in this part of the country.