Minnesota Gophers Hoops Schedule Set
(Gophersports.com) -- The full 2015-16 Minnesota men’s basketball schedule is set, as head coach Richard Pitino and the Gophers announced their upcoming non-conference slate on Monday. It features eight home games at Williams Arena along with strong neutral site competition leading up to the 18-game Big Ten regular season.
The only two-game road trip of the conference season, the Maroon and Gold remain on the road traveling to Northwestern on Thursday, February 4 before their first bye comes on the first weekend of the month. A home game against Michigan (Feb. 10) is followed by a Valentine’s Day trip to rival Iowa (Feb. 14), and back-to-back home games against Maryland (Feb. 18) and Rutgers (Feb. 23). The two contests against the conference’s new members are split up by Minnesota’s second bye of the season, also coming on a weekend.
Two of the Gophers’ final three games come on the road, as Minnesota travels to Illinois (Feb. 28) for the first time in three years. The final home game of the year comes on Wednesday, March 2 against rival Wisconsin, before closing out the regular season at Rutgers three days later (Mar. 5).
Date | Day | Opponent |
11/1/15 | Sun. | Minnesota Crookston (Exhibition) |
11/6/15 | Fri. | Southwest Minnesota State (Exhibition) |
11/13/15 | Fri. | Missouri-Kansas City |
11/15/15 | Sun. | Louisiana-Monroe |
Puerto Rico Tip-Off (Coliseo Roberto Clemente, San Juan) | ||
11/19/15 | Thu. | Temple |
11/20/15 | Fri. | Butler/Missouri State |
11/22/15 | Sun. | TBD |
11/27/15 | Fri. | Nebraska Omaha |
11/30/15 | Mon. | Clemson |
12/5/15 | Sat. | South Dakota |
12/8/15 | Tue. | South Dakota State |
12/12/15 | Sat. | vs. Oklahoma State (at Sioux Falls, S.D.) |
12/16/15 | Wed. | Chicago State |
12/23/15 | Wed. | Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
12/30/15 | Wed. | at Ohio State |
1/2/16 | Sat. | Michigan State |
1/5/16 | Tue. | at Penn State |
1/9/16 | Sat. | Northwestern |
1/12/16 | Tue. | at Nebraska |
1/16/16 | Sat. | Indiana |
1/20/16 | Wed. | at Michigan |
1/23/16 | Sat. | Illinois |
1/27/16 | Wed. | Purdue |
1/30/16 | Sat. | at Indiana |
2/4/16 | Thu. | at Northwestern |
2/10/16 | Wed. | Michigan |
2/14/16 | Sun. | at Iowa |
2/18/16 | Thu. | Maryland |
2/23/16 | Tue. | Rutgers |
2/28/16 | Sun. | at Illinois |
3/2/16 | Wed. | Wisconsin |
3/5/16 | Sat. | at Rutgers |
3/9/15- 3/13/15 | Wed.-Sun. | Big Ten Tournament (Bankers Life Fieldhouse, Indianapolis) |