UConn releases men’s baskeball nonconference schedule

Sep. 4—Coming off back-to-back national championships, the UConn basketball team will play a challenging nonconference schedule that includes 11 games this coming season.

The most difficult stretch will come in December when the Huskies host Baylor in the Big East-Big 12 Battle on Dec. 4, visit Texas in Austin on Dec. 8 for their only true nonconference road game and then meet Gonzaga on Dec. 14 in the 2024 Hall of Fame Series at Madison Square Garden in New York.

Last season, UConn beat Gonzaga 76-63 on Dec. 15 in Seattle and defeated Texas 81-71 on Nov. 20 at Madison Square Garden.

The Huskies also will compete in the eight-team Maui Invitational in Hawaii from Nov. 25-27, facing Memphis in the first of three games and then either Colorado or Michigan State. North Carolina, Auburn, Dayton, Iowa State also are in the field.

They will raise the 2024 national championship banner on opening night at Gampel Pavilion in Storrs on Wednesday, Nov. 6 before hosting Sacred Heart. They’ve won all seven previous games in the series.

They’ll also host New Hampshire (Nov. 9), a team they beat by 20 last November in Storrs, Le Moyne (Nov. 13), Texas A&M-Commerce (Nov. 19) and Maryland Eastern Shore (Nov. 30). It will be the program’s first ever meeting with Le Moyne and Texas A&M-Commerce.

Game locations, starting times and television information will be released sometime down the road.

Prior to the season opener, UConn will take on Rhode Island in a charity exhibition on Monday, Oct. 14, at the Mohegan Sun Arena. The Basketball Hall of Fame Enshrinement game will benefit Coaches vs. Cancer.