University of Connecticut Athletics
2005-06 University of Connecticut Basketball Schedule Announced
9/8/2005 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
STORRS, Conn. (Sept. 8, 2005)-- The University of Connecticut announced its 2005-06 Men’s Basketball schedule Thursday, a challenging 29-game regular season slate that is one of the toughest in Hall of Fame Head Coach Jim Calhoun’s 20-year tenure with the Huskies.
The schedule features 18 home contests, which includes 16 regular season games and two exhibition foes.
UConn will play 14 regular season games on national television in 2005-06, five on CBS and nine on ESPN or espn2. Local television broadcast plans for the remainder of the schedule will be announced at a later date.
The Huskies will play 11 games at the Hartford Civic Center, including nationally-televised contests against LSU on CBS on January 7 and Cincinnati (January 9) and Syracuse (February 8) on ESPN. The HCC slate begins November 3 with an exhibition against Bryant University, which was the NCAA Division II National runner-up in 2004-05.
UConn will host seven games at Gampel Pavilion on the Storrs campus, beginning with a November 9 exhibition with Concordia University of Montreal. Concordia will play UConn as part of a demanding exhibition schedule which also features games at Rhode Island, Duke, Georgia, Virginia and Vermont. Headlining the Gampel schedule for the Huskies will be a pair of nationally-televised CBS match-ups against Villanova (February 26) and Louisville (March 4) to wrap up the regular season home schedule.
UConn’s road schedule is formidable, beginning with the season opener November 18 at Pepperdine. The Huskies will then travel on to compete in the EA Sports Maui Invitational, opening play with Arkansas on November 21. A second round game on November 22 will see UConn face either Kansas or Arizona, while host Chaminade, Gonzaga, Maryland and Michigan State round out the strongest Maui field in recent history. Six of the eight schools in the tourney have captured an NCAA Championship.
The Huskies will also face nationally-televised major road tests at Syracuse (January 16, ESPN), at Louisville (January 21, ESPN College Gameday), at Indiana (February 4, CBS), at Villanova (February 13, ESPN) and at West Virginia (February 18, CBS).
