HawkeyeReport.com - Iowa announces 2009-10 hoops schedule

September 10, 2009

HawkeyeReport.com

IOWA CITY, IA - The University of Iowa announced its complete 2009-10 men's basketball schedule today.

The Hawkeyes will play 31 regular-season contests, with 22 coming against teams that advanced to postseason play a year ago. That includes 15 games, and possibly 16, vs. teams that participated in the NCAA Tournament. During the non-conference portion of the schedule Iowa will meet teams from the Big 12, ACC and Missouri Valley, along with a possible Big East opponent.

Iowa will only leave the state of Iowa once, for two games in Kansas City, during its first 14 contests. From Nov. 28 until Jan. 16, the Black and Gold will play 10 of 13 games in Carver-Hawkeye Arena.

Iowa's Nov. 8 exhibition game against Marian College will provide the first opportunity for fans to see the Hawkeyes in game action. Marian College is the alma mater of Graduate Manager Garrett Lickliter. Coach Todd Lickliter and the Hawkeyes will then open the regular season a week later with preliminary home games of the O'Reilly Auto Parts CBE Classic against UT-San Antonio (Nov. 15) and Duquesne (Nov. 17). The Black and Gold defeated UT-San Antonio last November in Iowa City (73-67). Duquesne competed in the NIT at the end of last season.

After the two preliminary games, the Black and Gold will travel to Kansas City, MO, and play Texas (Nov. 23) and either Pittsburgh or Wichita State the next day (Nov. 24) at the Sprint Center. Texas advanced to the second round and Pittsburgh to the Elite Eight in last year's NCAA Tournament.

Iowa then returns home for a three-pack of games against: North Carolina Central (Nov. 28), Virginia Tech, a team that competed in the NIT last year, (Dec. 1) and Prairie View A&M (Dec. 5).

Two of Iowa's three in-state games will be contested on the road: Northern Iowa (Dec. 8), an NCAA Tournament participant last year, and Iowa State (Dec. 11). The Hawkeyes host Drake on Dec. 19.

Iowa's last two non-conference games will come against South Carolina State (Dec. 21) and Tennessee State (Jan. 12). The contest against Tennessee State comes during Iowa's first league "bye", four games into its conference schedule.

Iowa's conference slate was released last month. There has been one time change since that schedule was released - Iowa's home game vs. Michigan State on Jan. 9 has been moved to 4:30 p.m.

Iowa's Big Ten opener vs. Purdue Dec. 29 is its earliest conference opener since the 1952 season. That year the Hawkeyes opened with Michigan on Dec. 13 in an 18-game league schedule.

Television information for Iowa's games against Marian College, Bowling Green, Prairie View A&M, Northern Iowa and Tennessee State will be announced at a later date.

Iowa's complete 2009-10 schedule is listed below.

Date Opponent Site Time TV

Sun., Nov. 8 Marian College (Exb.) IOWA CITY 12:35 p.m. TBD

Sun., Nov. 15 Texas-San Antonio# IOWA CITY 5:05 p.m. ESPNU

Tues., Nov. 17 Duquesne# IOWA CITY 8:05 p.m. ESPNU

Fri., Nov. 20 Bowling Green IOWA CITY 8:05 p.m. TBD

Mon.-Tues., Nov. 23-24 at O'Reilly Auto Parts CBE Classic Kansas City, MO

Mon., Nov. 23 vs. Texas Kansas City, MO 8:45 p.m. ESPN2

Tues., Nov. 24 vs. Pittsburgh or Wichita State Kansas City, MO 6:45/9 p.m. ESPNU/2

Sat., Nov. 28 North Carolina Central IOWA CITY 4:35 p.m. BTN

Tues., Dec. 1 Virginia Tech IOWA CITY 8:35 p.m. ESPN2

Sat., Dec. 5 Prairie View A&M IOWA CITY 3:05 p.m. TBD

Tue., Dec. 8 at Northern Iowa Cedar Falls, IA 7:05 p.m. TBD

Fri., Dec. 11 at Iowa State^ Ames, IA 7:05 p.m. CTN

Sat., Dec. 19 Drake IOWA CITY 5:35 p.m. BTN

Mon., Dec. 21 South Carolina State IOWA CITY 7:35 p.m. BTN

Tues., Dec. 29 Purdue IOWA CITY 6:05 p.m. BTN

Sat., Jan. 2 Minnesota IOWA CITY 3:05 p.m. BTN

Tues., Jan. 5 at Illinois Champaign, IL 8:05 p.m. BTN

Sat., Jan. 9 Michigan State IOWA CITY 4:35 p.m. BTN

Tues., Jan. 12 Tennessee State IOWA CITY 8:05 p.m. TBD

Sat., Jan. 16 Penn State IOWA CITY 12:05 p.m. BTN

Wed., Jan. 20 at Michigan State East Lansing, MI 5:35 p.m. BTN

Sun., Jan. 24 at Indiana Bloomington, IN 4:05 p.m. BTN

Wed., Jan. 27 Ohio State IOWA CITY 7:35 p.m. BTN

Sat., Jan. 30 at Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 3:35 p.m. BTN

Wed., Feb. 3 Illinois IOWA CITY 7:35 p.m. BTN

Sun., Feb. 7 at Ohio State Columbus, OH 11:05 a.m. BTN

Wed., Feb. 10 Northwestern IOWA CITY 7:35 p.m. BTN

Sat., Feb. 13 at Purdue West Lafayette, IN 3:35 p.m. BTN

Tues., Feb. 16 Michigan IOWA CITY 8:05 p.m. BTN

Thurs., Feb. 25 at Northwestern Evanston, IL 6:05 p.m. ESPN/2

Sun., Feb. 28 Indiana IOWA CITY 5:05 p.m. BTN

Tues-Thu., Mar 2-3-4 at Wisconsin Madison, WI TBD TBD

Sun., Mar. 7 at Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 5:05 p.m. BTN

Thu-Sun., Mar. 11-14 at Big Ten Tournament Indianapolis, IN TBD CBS/ESPN/BTN

Thu-Sun., Mar. 18-21 at NCAA Tournament, First/Second Rounds

Thu-Sun., Mar. 25-28 at NCAA Tournament, Regional Finals

Sat-Mon., April 3-5 at NCAA Final Four Indianapolis, IN

# - - Preliminary round, CBE Classic
Note: All times listed are central time

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