{"id":78053,"date":"2025-08-12T21:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T21:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/78053\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T21:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T21:13:07","slug":"villanova-releases-mens-and-womens-nonconference-basketball-schedules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/78053\/","title":{"rendered":"Villanova releases men\u2019s and women\u2019s nonconference basketball schedules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \"><a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/topic\/villanova\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Villanova<\/a> locked in the nonconference portion of its men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball schedules this week, with a number of anticipated matchups. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">On the men\u2019s side, new coach Kevin Willard will see his first action in a pair of preseason exhibitions against Virginia Commonwealth at home on Oct. 19 (5 p.m.) and at Virginia on Oct. 24 (7 p.m.). <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">The season tips off Nov. 3 in Las Vegas as the Wildcats take part in the Hall of Fame Series against Brigham Young. Then it\u2019s a return to the Finneran Pavilion for the Villanova Challenge, with games scheduled against Queens College (Nov. 8), Sacred Heart (Nov. 11) and Duquesne (Nov. 15). <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">The rest of November finds Villanova opening Big 5 Classic pod play at La Salle on Nov. 19, a home game with Old Dominion on Nov. 25, and a Big 5 home game against Temple on Dec. 1. The last day of the Big 5 Classic will be Dec. 6 at the Wells Fargo Center. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">December has three more games against heavyweights in Michigan on Dec. 9 in Ann Arbor, a home clash against Pittsburgh on Dec. 13, and the Milwaukee Hoops Showdown against Wisconsin on Dec. 19. <\/p>\n<p>\u2019Nova women open vs. Towson<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">The Villanova women will begin their season against Towson on Oct. 24 at 6 p.m., the first of five consecutive games at the Finneran Pavilion. Lafayette is next up on Nov. 3 (7 p.m.), followed by Fairfield on Nov. 5 (7 p.m.). <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">On Nov. 9, it\u2019s VCU at 2 p.m., followed by a Nov. 12 rematch (7 p.m.) with Princeton, which defeated the Wildcats, 71-60, last season. The Wildcats then will visit James Madison on Nov. 16 (time TBA), followed by the opening of Big 5 pod play against Temple on Nov. 22 (7 p.m.). \u2019 Nova will visit La Salle on Nov. 25 (6 p.m.). <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Villanova will close out its nonconference schedule on the road against West Virginia on Dec. 1 (time TBA). The second annual women\u2019s Big 5 Classic is scheduled for Dec. 7. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Villanova locked in the nonconference portion of its men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball schedules this week, with a number&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,398,400,401,99,55126],"class_list":["post-78053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaabasketball","tag-sports","tag-villanova-mens-womens-basketball-nonconference-schedule"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78053","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=78053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}