2024-2025 Schedule

[Carthage World]

Several early reveals per Twitter:

Home: Arizona & Kansas

Away: Iowa State

[Lobot]

Big XII basketball Home and Away pairings will be released tomorrow 6/27

[Carthage World]

Arkansas PB on opening night 11/4 per MadeforMarch. This will cost us 110K

They were really bad last year (KenPom #331) and lost 4 of their top 5 players to the portal/graduation.

UC will host Grambling on Sunday, 12/22 ($90,000) per Made for March. Grambling won the SWAC and a First Four game before falling to Purdue last March. Mid-200 metrics team.

They'll have quite a bit of roster turnover but appear to return 3 of their top 5 players from last season (KenPom #259).

[GoBearcats31]

Non-Conference Update

Monday, 11/4 vs. Arkansas-Pine Bluff
Friday, 11/8 vs. Morehead State
Wednesday, 11/13 at NKU


Tuesday, 12/3 - at Villanova

Saturday, 12/14 vs. Xavier
Friday, 12/20 vs. Dayton (Heritage Bank Center)
Sunday, 12/22 vs. Grambling

Pending dates: Howard, at Georgia Tech
TBD: two other games

[GoBearcats31]

Arkansas PB on opening night 11/4 per MadeforMarch. This will cost us 110K

UC will host Grambling on Sunday, 12/22 ($90,000) per Made for March. Grambling won the SWAC and a First Four game before falling to Purdue last March. Mid-200 metrics team.

[Lobot]

Arkansas PB on opening night 11/4 per MadeforMarch. This will cost us 110K

[GoBearcats31]

UC opponent Villanova has landed Wooga Poplar, who averaged 13.1 points and 4.8 for the Miami Hurricanes

[swilsonsp4]

Per Jon Rothstein, the Bearcats and Flyers will face off at the downtown dump (not his description, of course) on Friday, 12/20/2024.

[Carthage World]

Future opponent Villanova hasn't had a great offseason but this is good news for them (and probably UC's strength of schedule):

@John_Fanta: Eric Dixon is withdrawing from the NBA Draft and returning to Villanova for his fifth season, sources tell Fox Sports. The All-Big East Second Team selection averaged 16.6 PPG and 6.5 RPG this past year on 47% from the floor. One of the best returning players in the conference.

They also recently got a transfer commitment from Enoch Boakye, a 6'10 4th-year center from Fresno State who averaged 7.5 ppg and 7.7 rpg last season.

[GoBearcats31]

Future opponent Villanova hasn't had a great offseason but this is good news for them (and probably UC's strength of schedule):

@John_Fanta: Eric Dixon is withdrawing from the NBA Draft and returning to Villanova for his fifth season, sources tell Fox Sports. The All-Big East Second Team selection averaged 16.6 PPG and 6.5 RPG this past year on 47% from the floor. One of the best returning players in the conference.

[GoBearcats31]

Non-Conference Schedule

11/8 - Morehead State
11/13 - at Northern Kentucky
12/3 - at Villanova
12/14 - Xavier

TBD:
- TBD Howard
- TBD at Georgia Tech
- TBD Dayton (neutral at Heritage Bank Center)
- TBD
- TBD
- TBD
- TBD

[Lobot]

NKU is Wed. Nov. 13.

[Carthage World]

Wes had a ~30 min interview with Chad and company for the Cincy Reigns 513 Day event on Monday and scheduling was a topic of conversation.

No major updates were shared, but Wes made it a point of emphasis to talk about how grueling the Big 12 schedule was/will be next season and the need to attain a sense of balance with the non-conference schedule. He thinks the Big 12 was definitely the best all-around conference last season but was just too burned out by the start of the postseason and that was reflected with the poor tournament results.

He called out the fanbase for getting outnumbered by Dayton fans downtown last season with the hope that we capture a larger share of the crowd at Heritage Bank next season.

[GoBearcats31]

@JonRothstein
Source: The annual Crosstown Shootout between Cincinnati and Xavier will be played on Saturday, December 14th at Fifth Third Arena.

[longtimefan]

20 Big 12 games means playing 10 teams once and 5 teams twice.