2009-10 Men's Basketball Schedule
September 10, 2009 12:07 PM | General
September 10, 2009
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| Ed Pastilong |
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - West Virginia University Director of Athletics Ed Pastilong and the BIG EAST have announced the 2009-10 men’s basketball schedule.
At least 15 regular season games on national television highlight the schedule with three games on ESPN’s Big Monday (Villanova, at UConn, Georgetown) and three games on CBS (at Seton Hall, Ohio State, at Villanova).
BIG EAST schools visiting Morgantown will be Pitt, Louisville, Villanova, Seton Hall, Georgetown, Syracuse, Rutgers, Marquette and Cincinnati. For the third year in a row, the BIG EAST will play an 18-game format that allows teams to play each opponent once and three teams twice. West Virginia will play home-and-home games with Pitt, Villanova and Seton Hall.
The Mountaineers will play 12 non-conference contests, including three games in the 76 Classic in Anaheim, Calif. WVU will open 76 Classic play against Long Beach State on Thanksgiving and will face either Texas A&M or Clemson the next day. The Mountaineers will wrap up play against either UCLA, Portland, Minnesota or Butler.
West Virginia will open the regular season Nov. 15 at home against Loyola University Maryland and will also play Ohio State, Ole Miss, Duquesne and Coppin State at the WVU Coliseum.
The Mountaineers will open BIG EAST play at Seton Hall on Saturday, Dec. 26. WVU will play its home BIG EAST opener against Marquette on Tuesday, Dec. 29.
WVU will play road games at Purdue and Cleveland State. The Mountaineers will play The Citadel and Marshall at the Charleston Civic Center.
WVU’s nationally televised games this season will be Long Beach State (ESPNU), Texas A&M or Clemson (ESPN/ESPNU), final day of 76 Classic (ESPN2/ESPNU), Ole Miss (ESPN2), at Seton Hall (CBS), at Purdue (ESPN), Syracuse (ESPN), Ohio State (CBS), Louisville (ESPN), Villanova (ESPN), at Pitt (ESPN), Seton Hall (ESPN), at Connecticut (ESPN), Georgetown (ESPN) and at Villanova (CBS). All remaining league games will air on ESPNU, ESPN Regional/BIG EAST Network or ESPN 360.
“We are obviously excited about the national television exposure for our basketball program, the University and the state of West Virginia,” says coach Bob Huggins. “Top to bottom, this is probably as tough a schedule that we’ve had in a long time.”
The Mountaineers will play an exhibition game on Sunday, Nov. 8, against Mountain State at the WVU Coliseum. WVU will also play the University of Charleston in an exhibition on Saturday, Dec. 5, at the Coliseum.
Game times and the rest of the television games will be announced in October. Basketball practice begins Friday, Oct. 16.
| Date | Opponent | Time/Result |
| Nov 8 | Mountain State (exhibition) | TBA |
| Nov 15 | Loyola University Maryland | TBA |
| Nov 24 | The Citadel (Charleston, W.Va.) | TBA |
| Nov 26 | Long Beach State (Anaheim, Calif.) [ESPNU] | TBA |
| Nov 27 | Texas A&M./Clemson (Anaheim, Calif.) [ESPN/ESPNU] | TBA |
| Nov 29 | UCLA/Portland/Minnesota/Butler (Anaheim, Calif.) [ESPN/ESPN2] | TBA |
| Dec 5 | Charleston (exhibition) | TBA |
| Dec 9 | Duquesne | TBA |
| Dec 12 | Coppin State | TBA |
| Dec 19 | at Cleveland State | TBA |
| Dec 23 | Ole Miss [ESPN2] | TBA |
| Dec 26 | at Seton Hall [CBS] | TBA |
| Dec 29 | Marquette | TBA |
| Jan 1 | at Purdue [ESPN] | TBA |
| Jan 6 | Rutgers | TBA |
| Jan 9 | at Notre Dame | TBA |
| Jan 13 | at USF | TBA |
| Jan 16 | Syracuse [ESPN] | TBA |
| Jan 20 | vs. Marshall (Charleston, W.Va.) | TBA |
| Jan 23 | Ohio State [CBS] | TBA |
| Jan 26 | at DePaul | TBA |
| Jan 30 | Louisville [ESPN] | TBA |
| Feb 3 | Pitt | TBA |
| Feb 6 | at St. John's | TBA |
| Feb 8 | Villanova [ESPN] | TBA |
| Feb 12 | at Pitt [ESPN] | TBA |
| Feb 17 | at Providence | TBA |
| Feb 20 | Seton Hall [ESPN] | TBA |
| Feb 22 | at Connecticut [ESPN] | TBA |
| Feb 27 | Cincinnati | TBA |
| Mar 1 | Georgetown [ESPN] | TBA |
| Mar 6 | at Villanova [CBS] | TBA |
| Mar 9-13 | Big East Tournament (New York, N.Y.) [ESPN/ESPN2] | TBA |
