{"id":30925,"date":"2025-07-23T09:48:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T09:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/30925\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T09:48:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T09:48:12","slug":"cougars-2025-nonconference-schedule-is-released-deseret-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/30925\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougars’ 2025 nonconference schedule is released \u2013 Deseret News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The nonconference schedule for BYU\u2019s most anticipated basketball season ever has arrived.<\/p>\n

The Cougars announced the slate of games in a Tuesday press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what it will look like:<\/p>\n

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Special Collector’s Issue: “1984: The Year BYU was Second to None”<\/p>\n

Get an inclusive look inside BYU Football’s 1984 National Championship season.<\/p>\n

Oct. 18 \u2014 at Nebraska | Lincoln, Nebraska (exhibition)Oct. 24 \u2014 North Carolina | Delta Center (exhibition)Nov. 3 \u2014 Villanova* | Las VegasNov. 8 \u2014 Holy Cross | Marriott CenterNov. 11 \u2014 Delaware | Marriott CenterNov. 15 \u2014 UConn** | BostonNov. 21 \u2014 Wisconsin | Delta CenterNov. 27-28 \u2014 Terry\u2019s Chocolate ESPN Invitational^ | OrlandoDec. 3 \u2014 Cal Baptist | Delta CenterDec. 9 \u2014 Clemson^^ | New York CityDec. 13 \u2014 UC Riverside | Marriott CenterDec. 16 \u2014 Pacific | Marriott CenterDec. 19 \u2014 Abilene Christian | Marriott CenterDec. 22 \u2014 Eastern Washington | Marriott Center<\/p>\n

Notes: * Hall of Fame Series Las Vegas played at T Mobile Arena; ** Hall of Fame Series Boston played at TD Garden; ^ Two-game tournament against two of Dayton, Georgetown and Miami; ^^ Jimmy V Classic played at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n

Among the highlightsThe Cougars will play 13 nonconference regular-season games in total, with six happening at the Marriott Center.BYU will play at three different NBA arenas, with three games \u2014 including one exhibition \u2014 taking place at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City.The Cougars will open the regular season against Villanova in Las Vegas on Nov. 3 in new head coach Kevin Willard\u2019s first game with the Wildcats.BYU will visit AJ Dybantsa\u2019s hometown of Boston to play UConn \u2014 who has won two of the past three national championships \u2014 on Nov. 15.The Cougars will face Wisconsin on Nov. 21 after defeating the Badgers in last year\u2019s NCAA Tournament Round of 32.BYU will play Clemson at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Dec. 9 for the third all-time meeting between the two programs and first since 1990.The Cougars will welcome former WCC opponent Pacific to the Marriott Center on Dec. 16.What we don\u2019t knowThe dates for BYU\u2019s Big 12 conference schedule have yet to be finalized.The conference announced its\u00a02025-26 scheduling matrix<\/a>\u00a0in June, with each school playing 18 league games.Here are BYU\u2019s Big 12 opponents for the coming season:Home and away:\u00a0Utah, Texas Tech, ArizonaHome only:\u00a0Arizona State, Colorado, Houston, Iowa State, TCU, UCFAway only:\u00a0Baylor, Cincinnati, Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, West Virginia\"\"AJ Dybantsa, the nation’s No. 1 basketball recruit who has committed to BYU, holds a sign with students at halftime during an NCAA men\u2019s basketball game against the West Virginia Mountaineers held at the Marriott Center in Provo on Saturday, March 1, 2025. | Isaac Hale, Deseret News <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The nonconference schedule for BYU\u2019s most anticipated basketball season ever has arrived. The Cougars announced the slate of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,398,400,401,3125,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-30925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-basketball","11":"tag-ncaabasketball","12":"tag-news-feed-local","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}