The
University of Connecticut announced
its 2005-06 Men's Basketball schedule Thursday, a challenging
29-game
regular season slate that is one of the toughest in Hall of Fame
Head
Coach Jim Calhoun's 20-year tenure with the Huskies.
The schedule features 18 home contests, which includes 16
regular season
games and two exhibition foes.
UConn will play 14 regular season games on national television
in
2005-06, five on CBS and nine on ESPN or espn2. Local television
broadcast plans for the remainder of the schedule will be
announced at a
later date.
The Huskies will play 11 games at the Hartford Civic Center,
including
nationally-televised contests against LSU on CBS on January 7
and
Cincinnati (January 9) and Syracuse (February 8) on ESPN. The
HCC slate
begins November 3 with an exhibition against Bryant University,
which
was the NCAA Division II National runner-up in 2004-05.
UConn will host seven games at Gampel Pavilion on the Storrs
campus,
beginning with a November 9 exhibition with Concordia University
of
Montreal. Concordia will play UConn as part of a demanding
exhibition
schedule which also features games at Rhode Island, Duke,
Georgia,
Virginia and Vermont. Headlining the Gampel schedule for the
Huskies
will be a pair of nationally-televised CBS match-ups against
Villanova
(February 26) and Louisville (March 4) to wrap up the regular
season
home schedule.
UConn's road schedule is formidable, beginning with the season
opener
November 18 at Pepperdine. The Huskies will then travel on to
compete in
the EA Sports Maui Invitational, opening play with Arkansas on
November
21. A second round game on November 22 will see UConn face
either Kansas
or Arizona, while host Chaminade, Gonzaga, Maryland and Michigan
State
round out the strongest Maui field in recent history. Six of the
eight
schools in the tourney have captured an NCAA Championship.
The Huskies will also face nationally-televised major road tests
at
Syracuse (January 16, ESPN), at Louisville (January 21, ESPN
College
Gameday), at Indiana (February 4, CBS), at Villanova (February
13, ESPN)
and at West Virginia (February 18, CBS).
NOVEMBER
Thurs. 3 BRYANT (Exhib.)
Wed. 9 CONCORDIA (Exhib.)
Fri. 18 at Pepperdine
21-23 EA Sports Maui Invitational
Mon. 21 vs. Arkansas
Tues. 22 vs. Arizona or
Kansas
Wed. 23 vs. ?
Tues. 29 ARMY
DECEMBER
Fri. 2 TEXAS SOUTHERN
Thurs. 8 MASSACHUSETTS
Sun. 18 NEW HAMPSHIRE
Fri. 23 MOREHEAD STATE
Wed. 28 STONY BROOK
Fri. 30 QUINNIPIAC
JANUARY
Tues. 3 *at Marquette
Sat. 7 LOUISIANA STATE
Mon. 9 *CINCINNATI
Sat. 14 *GEORGETOWN
Mon. 16 *at Syracuse
Sat. 21 *at Louisville
Wed. 25 *ST. JOHN'S
Sat. 28 *at Providence
Tues. 31 *PITTSBURGH
Sat. 4 at Indiana
Wed. 8 *SYRACUSE
Sat. 11 *at Seton Hall
Mon. 13 *at Villanova
Sat. 18 *at West Virginia
Tues. 21 *NOTRE DAME
Sun. 26 *VILLANOVA
MARCH
Wed. 1 *at South Florida
Sat. 4 *LOUISVILLE
8-11 at BIG EAST Championship ESPN Madison Square
Garden, New York, N.Y.
*-- BIG EAST Conference Opponent
All information current as of September 8, 2005 and subject to
change.
