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HIGH POINT, N.C.\u00a0\u2013 The Field of 68 Mid-Major Top 25 preseason polls were announced on Thursday, September 18, 2025. The Panthers were picked No. 4 among other mid-major programs in the country, behind Liberty University, UC Irvine and Illinois State University. #GoHPU x #OnTheProwl<\/p>\n \u00a0
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\nDuring the 2024-25 season, High Point made history by winning its first-ever Big South Tournament title to earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. HPU finished with an overall record of 29-6, which tied for the most wins in Big South program history (Winthrop, 2006-07) and the most wins in HPU program history. The Panthers finished the regular season with a\u00a026-5 record and a 14-2 league record. The 26 regular-season wins was the most in program history and tied the Big South regular-season wins record with Coastal Carolina’s 2010-11 season (26-4).
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\nAhead of the 2025-26 season High Point returns eight players from the 2024-25 Big South Championship team, three of which played significant minutes, while bringing in 11 newcomers, including eight transfers. The transfers include Vincent Brady II<\/a> (Missouri State), Rob Martin<\/a> (SEMO), Babacar Diallo<\/a> (Missouri-Kansas City), Owen Aquino<\/a> (Liberty), Conrad Martinez<\/a> (Arizona), Cam’Ron Fletcher<\/a> (Xavier), Scotty Washington<\/a> (CSUN), and Youssouf Singare<\/a> (UConn).
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\n“This is a great place to be,” Head Coach Flynn Clayman<\/a> stated on the Field of 68 YouTube Live interview. “We have the support from the top of the alignment, President Qubein, to Athletic Director Dan Hauser<\/a> on down. With that alignment at a school like this we are able to get things done. I feel like we are in about as good of a place that we can be with what we lost. We lost a great head coach, four all-conference players, the defensive player of the year, newcomer of the year, and the MVP of the conference tournament, so we lost a ton but we are really excited about our new pieces and we are looking forward to it.”
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\nHigh Point begins the 2025-26 season with an exhibition game at reigning CAA Champs UNCA on October 18 at Trask Coliseum in Wilmington, North Carolina before hosting a home exhibition on\u00a0October 25 against NC A&T.
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\nThe Panthers will play their first regular-season game of the season in the “Field of 68 Opening Day Marathon” in Rock Hill, S.C. on November 3 against Furman University.
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\nFans can purchase season tickets for the upcoming season by clicking\u00a0HERE<\/a>.
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