{"id":52746,"date":"2025-08-01T14:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T14:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/52746\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T14:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T14:58:08","slug":"hokies-release-2025-26-mens-basketball-nonconference-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/52746\/","title":{"rendered":"Hokies release 2025-26 men&#8217;s basketball nonconference schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 13-game nonconference schedule features eight home contests, a matchup against Providence as part of the 2025 Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Series, three games in the Bad Boy Mowers Battle 4 Atlantis in Paradise Island, Bahamas, and a road test against South Carolina in the ACC\/SEC challenge.<\/p>\n<p>New this year, the Hokies will play a home exhibition vs. Duquesne on Saturday, Oct. 25 at 1 p.m. The matchup will be one day after Tech football squares off with Cal in Lane Stadium. Tech&#8217;s exhibition vs. Duquesne will follow the same pricing structure for <a href=\"https:\/\/hokiesports.com\/news\/2025\/7\/29\/mens-basketball-ticket-membership-nonconference-game-purchase-process-unveiled-for-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">regular-season nonconference games<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Virginia Tech will commence its 118th season Monday, November 3, as the Hokies host Charleston Southern in Cassell Coliseum for their season opener.<\/p>\n<p>The Hokies hit the road to Uncasville, Connecticut, for a neutral-site matchup against Providence on Nov. 8, part of the 2025 Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Series at Mohegan Sun Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Tech will then return to Blacksburg for a brief stretch, hosting Saint Joseph\u2019s (Nov. 12), Charlotte (Nov. 16), and Bryant (Nov. 19).<\/p>\n<p>Thanksgiving week, the Hokies will trade Blacksburg for the beaches of Paradise Island, heading to the Bahamas for the Bad Boy Mowers Battle 4 Atlantis (Nov. 26-28), one of college basketball\u2019s premier early-season tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>Virginia Tech will kick off the month of December by traveling to South Carolina for the ACC\/SEC Challenge (Dec. 2), before returning home to host George Mason (Dec. 6), Western Carolina (Dec. 11), Maryland Eastern Shore (Dec. 14) and Elon (Dec. 20), concluding nonconference play.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-game Atlantic Coast Conference schedule, along with television networks and game times, will be announced at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>Date<br \/>\nOpponent<br \/>\n2024-25 Record<br \/>\nPostseason<br \/>\nFinal NET Ranking<br \/>\nSeries History<\/p>\n<p>Oct. 25<br \/>\nDuquesne (exhibition)<br \/>\n13-19<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\n149<br \/>\nVT, 8-5<\/p>\n<p>Nov. 3<br \/>\nCharleston Southern<br \/>\n10-22<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\n294<br \/>\nVT, 7-0<\/p>\n<p>Nov. 8<br \/>\nProvidence<br \/>\n12-20<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\n100<br \/>\nVT, 5-4<\/p>\n<p>Nov. 12<br \/>\nSaint Joseph&#8217;s<br \/>\n22-13<br \/>\nNIT<br \/>\n76<br \/>\nSJU, 4-3<\/p>\n<p>Nov. 16<br \/>\nCharlotte<br \/>\n11-22<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\n267<br \/>\nVT, 8-6<\/p>\n<p>Nov. 19<br \/>\nBryant<br \/>\n23-12<br \/>\nNCAA First Round<br \/>\n141<br \/>\nFirst Meeting<\/p>\n<p>Nov. 26<br \/>\nBattle 4 Atlantis<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\n&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Nov. 27<br \/>\nBattle 4 Atlantis<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\n&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Nov. 28<br \/>\nBattle 4 Atlantis<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\n&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Dec. 2<br \/>\nSouth Carolina<br \/>\n12-20<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\n87<br \/>\nSC, 20-13<\/p>\n<p>Dec. 6<br \/>\nGeorge Mason<br \/>\n27-9<br \/>\nNIT<br \/>\n68<br \/>\nTied, 1-1<\/p>\n<p>Dec. 11<br \/>\nWestern Carolina<br \/>\n8-22<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\n342<br \/>\nVT, 4-0<\/p>\n<p>Dec. 14<br \/>\nMaryland Eastern Shore<br \/>\n6-25<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\n361<br \/>\nVT, 10-0<\/p>\n<p>Dec. 20<br \/>\nElon<br \/>\n17-16<br \/>\nCBI<br \/>\n184<br \/>\nVT, 13-7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 13-game nonconference schedule features eight home contests, a matchup against Providence as part of the 2025 Naismith&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,398,400,401,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-52746","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-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52746","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=52746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}