2024-2025 Schedule

[GoBearcats31]

Home:
Howard
Xavier

Road:
Northern Kentucky
Georgia Tech
Villanova - Tuesday, December 3

Neutral
Dayton (Heritage Bank Center)

TBD:
Big 12 schedule (20)
OOC ???
OOC ???
OOC ???
OOC ???
OOC ???

Big 12 Tournament dates TBD but second week of March
Kansas City, Missouri

NCAA Tournament March 18-April 7
(first/second round games in Denver, Providence, Lexington, Wichita, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Raleigh and Seattle)

Notes:
- Howard is supposed to play at UC this year, per report last year https://collegehoops.today/rothstein...ashington-d-c/
- Xavier game presumably in December; would be nice to play these later
- UC agreed to a 3-year deal, including two games at NKU, as part of deal to utilize NKU's arena in 2017-18 (this game should be November 13, 2024 if they still plan to go there) https://gobearcats.com/news/2021/9/2...arting-in-2022
- Georgia Tech return game date TBD; assuming it is in November https://gobearcats.com/news/2023/8/1...on-nov-22.aspx
- UC to play at Villanova in the Big East-Big 12 Battle https://big12sports.com/news/2024/4/...announced.aspx
- UC press release for last year's Dayton game said it was a "one-year agreement with an option for a second year" https://gobearcats.com/news/2023/7/1...-downtown.aspx; Jon Rothstein now reporting UC and UD are working to finalize an agreement to play downtown again https://collegehoopstoday.net/rothst...t-next-season/
- Big 12 schedule should consist of 20 games this season, instead of 18 https://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...18-women-games

[Carthage World]

I'd be pretty happy with this being the meat of our OOC schedule if it came to fruition.

For comparison, last season's OOC schedule included 10 home games, 2 road games, and 1 neutral site game and produced 2 Q1, 2 Q3, and 9 Q4 match-ups. It ended up being ranked #297 on KenPom.

[sedz]

If we're going to 20 conference games, I guess that means only 11 OOC games?

[Carthage World]

If we're going to 20 conference games, I guess that means only 11 OOC games?

11 OOC games is the number Chad has been referencing while having early schedule discussions on his podcast over the past few weeks.

[Lobot]

Rothstein is reporting that we're finalizing the deal to play Dayton again.

[Lobot]

The game at Nova was just announced officially. It’s at Finneran Pavilion

[GoBearcats31]

Updated the schedule in the original post above

Here is the official announcement from the Big 12 re matchups for Big 12-Big East https://big12sports.com/news/2024/4/...announced.aspx

Here is a short blurb from Rothstein, as referenced by Lobot above re: UC/UD https://collegehoopstoday.net/rothst...t-next-season/

[Carthage World]

The game at Nova was just announced officially. It’s at Finneran Pavilion

Disappointed it's a weeknight. Would've happily made the trip from NYC for a weekend game.

[GoBearcats31]

Rothstein is reporting that we're finalizing the deal to play Dayton again.

Speaking of Dayton...
DaRon Holmes - 20.4 ppg -- NBA
Nate Santos - 11.7 ppg -- recently hit the portal
Koby Brea - 11.1 ppg -- portal
Kobe Elvis - 9.4 ppg -- portal (Oklahoma)

Top four scorers from this year's squad -- who, by the way, scored 76 of UD's 82 points versus UC back in December

[GoBearcats31]

UC will face Morehead State early next season https://twitter.com/madeformarch/sta...7Ctwgr%5Etweet

"Cincinnati will host Morehead State on Friday November 8th as part of its 2024-25 non-conference schedule. This is a buy game with an $90,000 guarantee."

[GoBearcats31]

Here are all the current "comings and goings" in the Big 12
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...recruits#Big12

[swilsonsp4]

UC will face Morehead State early next season https://twitter.com/madeformarch/sta...7Ctwgr%5Etweet

"Cincinnati will host Morehead State on Friday November 8th as part of its 2024-25 non-conference schedule. This is a buy game with an $90,000 guarantee."

The Eagles were 26-9 last season & made the Dance as a14 seed. I have no idea what they have returning.

[Carthage World]

The Eagles were 26-9 last season & made the Dance as a14 seed. I have no idea what they have returning.

Their coach got hired away by James Madison. They lost their top 5 scorers to graduation/the portal. Their top returning player is 5th-year 6'10 Xavier transfer Dieonte Miles who averaged 5 & 5 last season. They got two low major transfers - neither of whom were starters last season. I'm not expecting them to be super competitive.