Maryland men’s basketball will renew its historic local rivalry with nearby foe Georgetown beginning in 2025.

The Terps will host the Hoyas at Xfinity Center in College Park in 2025 and 2027, according to a news release. Maryland will play at Capital One Arena in Washington, Georgetown’s home arena, in 2026 and 2028.

Renewing the spirited rivalry was a priority for both school’s new coaches. Kevin Willard, whom Maryland hired before the 2022 season, said in October he was working closely with new Georgetown coach Ed Cooley to reopen the connection between the programs that had been lost in recent decades.

Willard and Cooley clashed frequently when the former led Seton Hall and the latter coached Providence, overlapping in the Big East for 11 seasons. They hoped to begin the home-and-home series this past season, but scheduling conflicts pushed the first meeting to the 2025-26 campaign.

“I understand for the fan bases how important that game is for this area. I get it. He gets it,” Willard said at Maryland’s media day last year. “We were going to start it this year. We were — it was like, done, and it was a date thing. It was our date. I couldn’t find a date. So next year, I’m pretty confident that we’ll start.”

The two teams haven’t met since 2016, a 76-75 Terps win. Maryland and Georgetown’s annual rivalry game was halted in 1980, when the Hoyas initially joined the Big East, ending a 45-year stretch in which the schools met at least once per season outside of a three-year break during World War II. They battled just once from 1980 to 2001.

The Terps and Hoyas’ first meeting was in 1911. They’ve faced each other twice in the NCAA Tournament, most recently a 76-66 Maryland win in the Sweet 16 in 2001 during the first of the Terps’ consecutive runs to the Final Four.

“It’s something we want to get done,” Cooley said last June. “I think it would be a great thing for the District.”

The Terps are 38-27 all-time against the Hoyas. And for the first time in more than four decades, they’ll meet regularly again.