Meant to post this last night. From UC:
The University of Cincinnati men's basketball team released a 25-game schedule for the 2020-21 season Friday, including five non-league games and 20 American Athletic Conference contests.
Tip times and broadcast information will be announced at a later date. All game dates are subject to change.
The Bearcats open their season at Fifth Third Arena on Wednesday, Dec. 2 against Lipscomb. The date marks UC's latest season opener since the 1978-79 campaign (Dec. 2, 1978).
Two other nonconference home games on the schedule include the annual Skyline Chili Crosstown Shootout with Xavier (Dec. 6) and a matchup with Furman (Dec. 9). Non-league road games will see trips to No. 12 Tennessee (Dec. 12) and Georgia (Dec. 19).
"Going from 13 nonconference games like we were planning to schedule to five has certainly been a pretty large change," UC head coach John Brannen said. "The level of competition in these games has not changed, however. Playing Xavier and Furman at home, both potential Top 25 teams, and Tennessee, the SEC favorite, along with Georgia on the road should prepare us for AAC play."
Picked to finish fourth in the AAC according to a preseason vote of the league's coaches, Cincinnati plays host USF (Dec. 16) in the Bearcats' earliest league opener in the eight-year history of the league.
The Bearcats will face every AAC team at home and on the road in 2020-21.
UC plays league favorite Houston in the Bayou City on Jan. 23 before welcoming to Cougars to Cincinnati on Feb. 21.
UC plays Memphis twice in February. The Tigers were picked to finish second in the league in the preseason. The Bearcats face Memphis in the Bluff City on Feb. 11 before a battle inside Fifth Third Arena on Feb. 28.
Other league home games: Tulsa (Jan. 2), East Carolina (Jan. 13), Tulane (Jan. 16), Wichita State (Jan. 27), Temple (Feb. 4), UCF (Feb. 14) and SMU (Mar. 4).
Other AAC road contests: at UCF (Dec. 22) at SMU (Jan. 6), at Wichita State (Jan. 9), at Temple (Jan. 20), at USF (Jan. 30), at Tulane (Feb. 7), at Tulsa (Feb. 24) and at East Carolina (Mar. 7) in the regular-season finale.
The AAC Championship is scheduled for Mar. 11-14 at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas.
The Bearcats posted a 20-10 overall record and 13-5 league mark last season, sharing the AAC regular-season crown with Houston. The conference tournament and additional postseason possibilities were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Since formation of the league in 2013-14, Cincinnati has claimed three AAC regular-season crowns (2014, 2018, 2020) and two AAC Tournament titles (2018, 2019) while winning an AAC-best 99 conference games.
Last season, Brannen became the first UC coach since Tay Baker (Missouri Valley Conference) in 1966 to guide the Bearcats to a regular-season league crown in his first season at the helm.
ABOUT THE BEARCATS
Brannen's second edition of Bearcats return three starters from a year ago. Keith Williams (12.6 points, 4.6 rebounds) was named First Team All-AAC while Chris Vogt (11.0 points and 5.9 rebounds) was a Second Team All-AAC selection in the preseason. Each player started 29 games while sophomore guard Mika Adams-Woods (5.0 points, 1.6 assists) started 19 of UC's final 20 games.
Redshirt-junior forward Mamoudou Diarra (3.0 points, 2.8 rebounds) made more impactful contributions as the season progressed while sophomore guards Jeremiah Davenport (18 games) and Zach Harvey (26 games) showed flashes of their potential as reserves a year ago.
Seven newcomers also pepper the 2020-21 roster, including graduate transfer forward Rapolas Ivanauskas from Colgate and junior transfer guard David DeJulius from Michigan. The freshmen class consists of forwards Tari Eason and Viktor Lakhin and guards Mike Saunders Jr., and twins Mason Madsen and Gabe Madsen.
VIRTUAL SELLOUT SCHEDULED, CUTOUT PACKAGES ANNOUNCED
UC Athletics will hold a virtual sellout for the 2020 Skyline Chili Crosstown Shootouts, set to take place on Dec. 6 (men's) and Dec. 10 (women's) at Fifth Third Arena.
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, general fans are currently not allowed in the arena on game day, but they have the opportunity to cheer their team on virtually with a fan cutout in the stands.
Custom fan cutout packages are available for $75 for fans and $40 for students and all proceeds will support UC Athletics. Make your purchase by Nov. 29 to ensure your cutout is in the stands for the shootout! Packages will be sold beyond Nov. 29, but cutouts will not be in the stands until after the Crosstown Shootout.
Cutouts will remain in the stands for men's and women's basketball and volleyball games which take place during the 2020-21 campaign. In the event fans are permitted to attend games, UC will sell tickets on a single-game basis and tickets will be made available only to season ticket holders.
The University of Cincinnati men's basketball team released a 25-game schedule for the 2020-21 season Friday, including five non-league games and 20 American Athletic Conference contests.
Tip times and broadcast information will be announced at a later date. All game dates are subject to change.
The Bearcats open their season at Fifth Third Arena on Wednesday, Dec. 2 against Lipscomb. The date marks UC's latest season opener since the 1978-79 campaign (Dec. 2, 1978).
Two other nonconference home games on the schedule include the annual Skyline Chili Crosstown Shootout with Xavier (Dec. 6) and a matchup with Furman (Dec. 9). Non-league road games will see trips to No. 12 Tennessee (Dec. 12) and Georgia (Dec. 19).
"Going from 13 nonconference games like we were planning to schedule to five has certainly been a pretty large change," UC head coach John Brannen said. "The level of competition in these games has not changed, however. Playing Xavier and Furman at home, both potential Top 25 teams, and Tennessee, the SEC favorite, along with Georgia on the road should prepare us for AAC play."
Picked to finish fourth in the AAC according to a preseason vote of the league's coaches, Cincinnati plays host USF (Dec. 16) in the Bearcats' earliest league opener in the eight-year history of the league.
The Bearcats will face every AAC team at home and on the road in 2020-21.
UC plays league favorite Houston in the Bayou City on Jan. 23 before welcoming to Cougars to Cincinnati on Feb. 21.
UC plays Memphis twice in February. The Tigers were picked to finish second in the league in the preseason. The Bearcats face Memphis in the Bluff City on Feb. 11 before a battle inside Fifth Third Arena on Feb. 28.
Other league home games: Tulsa (Jan. 2), East Carolina (Jan. 13), Tulane (Jan. 16), Wichita State (Jan. 27), Temple (Feb. 4), UCF (Feb. 14) and SMU (Mar. 4).
Other AAC road contests: at UCF (Dec. 22) at SMU (Jan. 6), at Wichita State (Jan. 9), at Temple (Jan. 20), at USF (Jan. 30), at Tulane (Feb. 7), at Tulsa (Feb. 24) and at East Carolina (Mar. 7) in the regular-season finale.
The AAC Championship is scheduled for Mar. 11-14 at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas.
The Bearcats posted a 20-10 overall record and 13-5 league mark last season, sharing the AAC regular-season crown with Houston. The conference tournament and additional postseason possibilities were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Since formation of the league in 2013-14, Cincinnati has claimed three AAC regular-season crowns (2014, 2018, 2020) and two AAC Tournament titles (2018, 2019) while winning an AAC-best 99 conference games.
Last season, Brannen became the first UC coach since Tay Baker (Missouri Valley Conference) in 1966 to guide the Bearcats to a regular-season league crown in his first season at the helm.
ABOUT THE BEARCATS
Brannen's second edition of Bearcats return three starters from a year ago. Keith Williams (12.6 points, 4.6 rebounds) was named First Team All-AAC while Chris Vogt (11.0 points and 5.9 rebounds) was a Second Team All-AAC selection in the preseason. Each player started 29 games while sophomore guard Mika Adams-Woods (5.0 points, 1.6 assists) started 19 of UC's final 20 games.
Redshirt-junior forward Mamoudou Diarra (3.0 points, 2.8 rebounds) made more impactful contributions as the season progressed while sophomore guards Jeremiah Davenport (18 games) and Zach Harvey (26 games) showed flashes of their potential as reserves a year ago.
Seven newcomers also pepper the 2020-21 roster, including graduate transfer forward Rapolas Ivanauskas from Colgate and junior transfer guard David DeJulius from Michigan. The freshmen class consists of forwards Tari Eason and Viktor Lakhin and guards Mike Saunders Jr., and twins Mason Madsen and Gabe Madsen.
VIRTUAL SELLOUT SCHEDULED, CUTOUT PACKAGES ANNOUNCED
UC Athletics will hold a virtual sellout for the 2020 Skyline Chili Crosstown Shootouts, set to take place on Dec. 6 (men's) and Dec. 10 (women's) at Fifth Third Arena.
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, general fans are currently not allowed in the arena on game day, but they have the opportunity to cheer their team on virtually with a fan cutout in the stands.
Custom fan cutout packages are available for $75 for fans and $40 for students and all proceeds will support UC Athletics. Make your purchase by Nov. 29 to ensure your cutout is in the stands for the shootout! Packages will be sold beyond Nov. 29, but cutouts will not be in the stands until after the Crosstown Shootout.
Cutouts will remain in the stands for men's and women's basketball and volleyball games which take place during the 2020-21 campaign. In the event fans are permitted to attend games, UC will sell tickets on a single-game basis and tickets will be made available only to season ticket holders.
