{"id":97714,"date":"2025-08-20T21:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T21:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/97714\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T21:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T21:22:09","slug":"alabama-basketball-announces-nonconference-schedule-for-2025-26-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/97714\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama basketball announces nonconference schedule for 2025-26 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A program that has played some of college basketball&#8217;s best in recent years, the 2025-26 nonconference schedule is now finalized for the <a href=\"https:\/\/rolltidewire.usatoday.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Alabama Crimson Tide;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Alabama Crimson Tide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In all, Alabama will play over 10+ opponents from outside the SEC in nonconference action this upcoming season, a schedule that starts with the Crimson Tide&#8217;s season opener at home against North Dakota on Nov. 3.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>A loaded nonconference slate, Alabama will also host the likes of Purdue and Clemson this upcoming season, while also traveling to St. John&#8217;s. The Crimson Tide also play neutral-site matchups against Illinois and Arizona, as well as participating in the loaded Players Era Festival Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Alabama will also later open their <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/alabama-basketball-2025-26-sec-173742039.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:2025-26 SEC schedule;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2025-26 SEC schedule<\/a> Jan. 3 at home against Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p>Following is a breakout of Alabama&#8217;s 2025-26 nonconference schedule. The start times and television networks for each game are to be determined.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/ncaab\/teams\/alabama-crimson-tide\/1284\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Alabama Crimson Tide;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Alabama Crimson Tide<\/a> basketball 2025-26 nonconference schedule<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Nov. 19: vs. Illinois (Chicago, Illinois)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Nov. 24: vs. Gonzaga (Players Era Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Nov. 25: vs. UNLV (Players Era Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Nov. 26\/27: vs. TBD (Players Era Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Dec. 3: vs. Clemson (ACC\/SEC Challenge)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Dec. 13: vs. Arizona (C.M. Newton Classic in Birmingham, Alabama)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Dec. 17: vs. South Florida<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Dec. 21: vs. Kennesaw State (Rocket City Classic in Huntsville, Alabama)<\/p>\n<p>Contact\/Follow us\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/rolltidewire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:@RollTideWire;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">@RollTideWire<\/a>\u00a0on X, and like our page on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RollTideWire\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0to follow ongoing coverage of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/ncaab\/teams\/alabama-crimson-tide\/1284\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Alabama;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Alabama<\/a>\u00a0news, notes and opinion.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Roll Tide Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/rolltidewire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/crimson-tide\/mens-basketball\/2025\/08\/20\/alabama-basketball-2025-26-nonconference-schedule\/85729883007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Alabama basketball announces 2025-26 nonconference schedule;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Alabama basketball announces 2025-26 nonconference schedule<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A program that has played some of college basketball&#8217;s best in recent years, the 2025-26 nonconference schedule is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[1603,402,4044,16680,398,400,401,11395,99,5444],"class_list":["post-97714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-alabama-crimson-tide","tag-basketball","tag-college-basketball","tag-crimson-tide","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaabasketball","tag-nonconference-schedule","tag-sports","tag-upcoming-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97714","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=97714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}