Colorado University Athletics
Basketball Announces 2007-08 Schedules
July 31, 2007 | General, Men's Basketball, Women's Basketball
BOULDER ? The University of Colorado men's and women's basketball teams have announced their schedules for the 2007-08 season.
Jeff Bzdelik's inaugural schedule as the CU men's coach features eight schools with first-year head coaches and 10 opponents that made either the NCAA or NIT Tournaments a year ago.
Kathy McConnell-Miller's women's team will play a school-record 17 regular season home contests and will play at least 14 games against teams which advanced to either the 2006-07 NCAA or WNIT Tournaments.
CU's men will open the 2007-08 season against New Mexico (Nov. 9), followed by Colorado Christian (Nov. 20), Stanford (Dec. 2) in the Big 12/Pac-10 Hardwood Series, New Orleans (Dec. 12), Grambling State (Dec. 29), SMU (Jan. 4) and Tulsa (Jan. 7).
Road dates include three games in Madison, Wis., at the America's Youth Classic where the Buffaloes will take on Wisconsin (Nov. 17) for the first time ever, in addition to playing Florida A&M (Nov. 15) and Savannah State (Nov. 16).
The away schedule also features the Buffaloes at Denver (Nov. 27), Air Force (Nov. 29), Wyoming (Dec. 8) and Colorado State (Dec. 22). Three of CU's Front Range road trips will mark its first in quite some time. The Buffs match-up at DU is a school-first since the 1999-2000 season, while their trip to Colorado Springs to take on the Falcons will be the first since 1979-80 and the Buffs are traveling to Laramie for the first time since 1998-99.
CU will open Big 12 Conference play at Texas A&M on Saturday, Jan. 12.
The Big 12 schedule will also see the Buffaloes on either ESPN Plus, ESPN U or ESPN Classic a total of nine times with its featured home match up against Kansas, Feb. 2 on ABC..
The Buffaloes will also host Big 12 North rivals Nebraska, Kansas State, Iowa State and Missouri as well as Big 12 South foes Baylor, Texas Tech and Oklahoma. CU will travel to Texas, Oklahoma State and Texas A&M.
The Buffaloes officially tip-off the exhibition season with a pair of home games against Basketball Travelers (Nov. 1) and Regis University (Nov. 6).
CU's women will open regular season play on the road for just the fourth time in the last 15 years as the Buffaloes take a West Coast trip to San Francisco (Nov. 16) and Southern California (Nov. 18).
Colorado then returns home for nine of its final 11 non-conference affairs, beginning with the 21st annual Coors Classic, Nov. 23-24, as the Buffs bring in Clemson, Rice and Siena. The Coors Classic returns to its traditional tournament format this year as Clemson plays Rice and Colorado plays Siena on Nov. 23 with a consolation and championship game on Nov. 24.
The Buffaloes will then host regional rivals Northern Colorado (Nov. 28) and Wyoming (Dec. 5) bracketed by road trips to Colorado State (Dec. 1) and NCAA Tournament participant Vanderbilt (Dec. 9).
Colorado ends the non-conference portion of its schedule with five-straight home games. The first four will be first-time match-ups with Texas Southern (Dec. 14), Dartmouth (Dec. 21), Southern Utah (Dec. 28) and Jacksonville State (Dec. 30). The Buffs will wrap up the non-conference portion of their schedule with Pepperdine (Jan. 4). The Pepperdine game, a doubleheader with the CU men (SMU), features the return of CU All-American Shelly Sheetz who is an assistant coach with the Waves.
Colorado opens Big 12 action at Missouri (Jan. 9) and has its first league home contest against Iowa State (Jan. 12). Defending league champion Texas A&M (Jan. 16), Oklahoma State (Feb. 2) and Texas (Feb. 16) are the Big 12 South teams coming to Boulder this year while the Buffaloes will travel to Texas Tech (Jan. 26), Oklahoma (Feb. 9) and Baylor (Feb. 27). CU will have its normal home-and-home series with Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri and Nebraska.
The Buffaloes will play one exhibition game this season, hosting the Colorado School of Mines (Nov. 8).
The Big 12's Fox Sports Net women's basketball national television package, along with Fox Sports Net Rocky Mountain's package with both CU's men's and women's teams, will be announced at a later date.
Notes:
- CU men will play seven schools (Florida A&M, Kansas, Stanford, Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Wisconsin) that earned NCAA Tournament berths a year ago and three schools that made the NIT (Air Force, Kansas State, Oklahoma State).
- CU women will play seven schools (Baylor, Iowa State, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt) that earned NCAA Tournament berths a year ago and three schools that made the WNIT (Kansas State, Missouri, Wyoming).
- First-year head coaches in the Big 12 (men: Kansas State, Texas A&M; women: Texas)
- First-year men's head coaches in non-conference (Air Force, Colorado State, Denver, New Mexico, New Orleans, Wyoming)
- The CU women's nine non-conference home dates are its most since it played 10 in 1982-83, the program's first year in the Big Eight Conference. Colorado has played 17 home games in one season on two other occasions (1995-96 & 2001-02) but both instances included two NCAA Tournament contests at the Coors Events Center.
Click on the link below for a printable version of the 2007-08 CU men's and women's basketball schedules.
