The Mercer men’s basketball team — Duke fans surely remember the name — will play Davidson on Tuesday night at 7 p.m. ET, and their game will be one of the first Division I college basketball games broadcast exclusively live on Facebook.

The game will be streamed on the Mercer athletic page and shared by the Southern Conference, Atlantic 10 and Sports on Facebook, pages that altogether have more than 4 million likes and give the game potentially a worldwide audience. Like any Facebook live broadcast, viewers’ comments will stream alongside the action; Mercer said it will have communications staffers monitoring comments and responding to fans during the game. There will also be promotions to encourage fans to post photos of themselves in Mercer gear or pictures of their home setups as they watch the game. Some fans will have opportunities to win free Bears gear.

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ODUs game against Richmond was aired on Facebook via the A10 Network. It was pretty cool.