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Majerle releases 2016-17 schedule
6/27/2016 5:13:00 PM | Men's Basketball
PHOENIX – The Grand Canyon men's basketball team, coming off its best season in NCAA Division I play with a 27-7 record, released its 2016-17 regular season schedule on Thursday. The 2016-17 schedule features four games against storied collegiate basketball programs with a combined 123 NCAA tournament appearances between them with road games at Duke and Arizona, while playing host to Louisville and San Diego State.
Dan Majerle enters his fourth season as GCU head coach with a season-opening matchup with the Duke Blue Devils on Friday, Nov. 11 at historic Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, N.C. as part of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame 2016 Tip-Off Tournament. Four days later, the Lopes will head to Happy Valley, Pa. to visit Penn State on Nov. 15. The Tip-off Tournament will wrap up with neutral site matchups with Albany and Marist on Nov. 19 and 20 from the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn.
"I think it's going to be a very challenging schedule, and it starts right at the beginning," Majerle said. "The entire schedule is challenging, but to be able to start at Duke—probably one of the hardest places to play, if not the hardest place to play in the country—will be a great experience for our kids. And then to go and play at Penn State which is a Big 10 school and then against Albany and Marist at Mohegan Sun Arena are all extremely hard games to start off the year."
After two weeks on the road to begin the season, GCU will host Coppin State in its home-opener on Nov. 25 at GCU Arena, where the Lopes own a 69-16 (.812) all-time record at home following an 18-2 record in home contests a year ago. The Lopes will close out the month of November hosting SIU-Edwardsville on Nov. 28.
The competition picks up again as the Lopes will host Louisville on Saturday, Dec. 3. Coach Rick Pitino's Cardinals will be traveling to Grand Canyon for their only non-conference road game this season. Four days later, the Lopes will match up with San Diego State at GCU Arena. The Lopes earned a trademark victory for their program with a 52-45 win over the Aztecs at Viejas Arena last December. Following a Dec. 10 matchup with the University of Illinois-Chicago at GCU Arena, the Lopes will travel down to Tucson to face Arizona at the McKale Center on Wednesday, Dec. 14. It will be the fifth time these two schools have met and the first matchup since Dec. 30, 1980.
"To be able to come home and have two programs like Louisville and San Diego State playing on our campus, it's a great challenge, but a good place for our program," Majerle said. "That doesn't happen very often, so I'm very excited about that. Then to go down to Arizona, that is really another hard place to play. So in those games, we're probably going to be playing maybe four top 25, top 15 teams, in all the country. So it's going to be a great way to start."
The Lopes will host four home games over Christmas break, welcoming Mississippi Valley State on Dec. 17, Alcorn State on Dec. 20, Arkansas Pine-Bluff on Dec. 22 and Cal Poly on Dec. 28. GCU will then hit the road for an afternoon contest at UC-Riverside on New Year's Eve.
The new year brings the start of conference play as the Lopes will host Utah Valley on Saturday, Jan. 7 in their WAC opener. The following weekend, GCU hits the road for games at New Mexico State on Jan. 12 and UTRGV on Jan. 14. Following a Tuesday night game with San Diego Christian, an NAIA opponent, the Lopes returns to GCU Arena to face a Seattle team that gave GCU its only conference loss at home in the 2015-16 season. The month of January concludes with road contests at UMKC on Jan. 26 and Chicago State on Jan. 28, before playing Bethesda, another NAIA program, at home on Jan. 31.
The final month of the regular season begins with the Lopes hosting 2016 WAC Tournament Champions, Cal State Bakersfield on Feb. 4. GCU then welcomes UTRGV and New Mexico State to Phoenix on Feb. 9 and 11, respectively. The Lopes defeated the Aggies for the first time in program history on Jan. 9, 2016 in front of an all-time GCU Arena record of 7,413 fans. Following a two-game road trip at Seattle on Feb. 16 and Utah Valley Feb. 18, GCU will have close out their regular season home slate with games vs. Chicago State on Feb 23 and UMKC on Feb. 25. For the second consecutive season, the Lopes will close out their regular season on the road as they head to Bakersfield, Calif. to take on the Roadrunners on Saturday, March 4.
"Our league continues to get better," Majerle added. "It's going to be a challenging year for us, especially coming off 27 wins, but I'm excited to see how we fare and it's great to have this kind of schedule with this being our last year of our transition period. Hopefully it will have us ready for the NCAA Tournament in 2018."
GCU will play a total of 31 games, including 18 at GCU Arena, where Majerle expects to continue to have a true home-court advantage.
"It's always a huge deal for us to be able to play that many home games in front of what I think is one of the best college atmospheres in all of the country. A big reason why we had so much success last year is we won 18 games at home and that's huge. The Havocs are a big part of our success, so we're looking forward to playing in front of them this fall."
Dan Majerle enters his fourth season as GCU head coach with a season-opening matchup with the Duke Blue Devils on Friday, Nov. 11 at historic Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, N.C. as part of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame 2016 Tip-Off Tournament. Four days later, the Lopes will head to Happy Valley, Pa. to visit Penn State on Nov. 15. The Tip-off Tournament will wrap up with neutral site matchups with Albany and Marist on Nov. 19 and 20 from the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn.
"I think it's going to be a very challenging schedule, and it starts right at the beginning," Majerle said. "The entire schedule is challenging, but to be able to start at Duke—probably one of the hardest places to play, if not the hardest place to play in the country—will be a great experience for our kids. And then to go and play at Penn State which is a Big 10 school and then against Albany and Marist at Mohegan Sun Arena are all extremely hard games to start off the year."
After two weeks on the road to begin the season, GCU will host Coppin State in its home-opener on Nov. 25 at GCU Arena, where the Lopes own a 69-16 (.812) all-time record at home following an 18-2 record in home contests a year ago. The Lopes will close out the month of November hosting SIU-Edwardsville on Nov. 28.
The competition picks up again as the Lopes will host Louisville on Saturday, Dec. 3. Coach Rick Pitino's Cardinals will be traveling to Grand Canyon for their only non-conference road game this season. Four days later, the Lopes will match up with San Diego State at GCU Arena. The Lopes earned a trademark victory for their program with a 52-45 win over the Aztecs at Viejas Arena last December. Following a Dec. 10 matchup with the University of Illinois-Chicago at GCU Arena, the Lopes will travel down to Tucson to face Arizona at the McKale Center on Wednesday, Dec. 14. It will be the fifth time these two schools have met and the first matchup since Dec. 30, 1980.
"To be able to come home and have two programs like Louisville and San Diego State playing on our campus, it's a great challenge, but a good place for our program," Majerle said. "That doesn't happen very often, so I'm very excited about that. Then to go down to Arizona, that is really another hard place to play. So in those games, we're probably going to be playing maybe four top 25, top 15 teams, in all the country. So it's going to be a great way to start."
The Lopes will host four home games over Christmas break, welcoming Mississippi Valley State on Dec. 17, Alcorn State on Dec. 20, Arkansas Pine-Bluff on Dec. 22 and Cal Poly on Dec. 28. GCU will then hit the road for an afternoon contest at UC-Riverside on New Year's Eve.
The new year brings the start of conference play as the Lopes will host Utah Valley on Saturday, Jan. 7 in their WAC opener. The following weekend, GCU hits the road for games at New Mexico State on Jan. 12 and UTRGV on Jan. 14. Following a Tuesday night game with San Diego Christian, an NAIA opponent, the Lopes returns to GCU Arena to face a Seattle team that gave GCU its only conference loss at home in the 2015-16 season. The month of January concludes with road contests at UMKC on Jan. 26 and Chicago State on Jan. 28, before playing Bethesda, another NAIA program, at home on Jan. 31.
The final month of the regular season begins with the Lopes hosting 2016 WAC Tournament Champions, Cal State Bakersfield on Feb. 4. GCU then welcomes UTRGV and New Mexico State to Phoenix on Feb. 9 and 11, respectively. The Lopes defeated the Aggies for the first time in program history on Jan. 9, 2016 in front of an all-time GCU Arena record of 7,413 fans. Following a two-game road trip at Seattle on Feb. 16 and Utah Valley Feb. 18, GCU will have close out their regular season home slate with games vs. Chicago State on Feb 23 and UMKC on Feb. 25. For the second consecutive season, the Lopes will close out their regular season on the road as they head to Bakersfield, Calif. to take on the Roadrunners on Saturday, March 4.
"Our league continues to get better," Majerle added. "It's going to be a challenging year for us, especially coming off 27 wins, but I'm excited to see how we fare and it's great to have this kind of schedule with this being our last year of our transition period. Hopefully it will have us ready for the NCAA Tournament in 2018."
GCU will play a total of 31 games, including 18 at GCU Arena, where Majerle expects to continue to have a true home-court advantage.
"It's always a huge deal for us to be able to play that many home games in front of what I think is one of the best college atmospheres in all of the country. A big reason why we had so much success last year is we won 18 games at home and that's huge. The Havocs are a big part of our success, so we're looking forward to playing in front of them this fall."
GCU MEN'S BASKETBALL 2016-17 SCHEDULE
| Day | Date | Opponent | Venue | Time |
| Thursday | Nov. 3 | Adams State (Exhib.) | GCU Arena | 7:00 p.m. |
| Friday | Nov. 11 | at Duke | Durham, N.C. | 5:00 p.m. |
| Tuesday | Nov. 15 | at Penn State | Happy Valley, Pa. | 5:00 p.m. |
| Saturday | Nov. 19 | vs Albany | Mohegan Sun Arena | TBA |
| Sunday | Nov. 20 | vs Marist | Mohegan Sun Arena | TBA |
| Friday | Nov. 25 | Coppin State | GCU Arena | 7:00 p.m. |
| Monday | Nov. 28 | SIU-Edwardsville | GCU Arena | 7:00 p.m. |
| Saturday | Dec. 3 | Louisville | GCU Arena | 7:00 p.m. |
| Wednesday | Dec. 7 | San Diego State | GCU Arena | 7:00 p.m. |
| Saturday | Dec. 10 | Illinois-Chicago | GCU Arena | 7:00 p.m. |
| Wednesday | Dec. 14 | at Arizona | Tucson, AZ | 7:00 p.m. |
| Saturday | Dec. 17 | Mississippi Valley State | GCU Arena | 7:00 p.m. |
| Tuesday | Dec. 20 | Alcorn State | GCU Arena | 7:00 p.m. |
| Thursday | Dec. 22 | Arkansas Pine-Bluff | GCU Arena | 7:00 p.m. |
| Wednesday | Dec. 28 | Cal Poly | GCU Arena | 7:00 p.m. |
| Saturday | Dec. 31 | at UC Riverside | Riverside, Calif. | 2:00 p.m. |
| Saturday | Jan. 7 | Utah Valley | GCU Arena | 7:00 p.m. |
| Thursday | Jan. 12 | at New Mexico State | Las Cruces, N.M. | 7:00 p.m. |
| Saturday | Jan. 14 | At UTRGV | Edinburg, Texas | 6:00 p.m. |
| Tuesday | Jan. 17 | San Diego Christian College | GCU Arena | 7:00 p.m. |
| Saturday | Jan. 21 | Seattle | GCU Arena | 7:00 p.m. |
| Thursday | Jan. 26 | at UMKC | Kansas City, Mo. | 6:00 p.m. |
| Saturday | Jan. 28 | at Chicago State | Chicago, Ill. | 6:00 p.m. |
| Tuesday | Jan. 31 | Bethesda | GCU Arena | 7:00 p.m. |
| Saturday | Feb. 4 | Cal State Bakersfield | GCU Arena | 7:00 p.m. |
| Thursday | Feb. 9 | UTRGV | GCU Arena | 7:00 p.m. |
| Saturday | Feb. 11 | New Mexico State | GCU Arena | 7:00 p.m. |
| Thursday | Feb. 16 | at Seattle | Seattle, Wash. | 8:00 p.m. |
| Saturday | Feb. 18 | at Utah Valley | Orem, Utah | 7:00 p.m. |
| Thursday | Feb. 23 | Chicago State | GCU Arena | 7:00 p.m. |
| Saturday | Feb. 25 | UMKC | GCU Arena | 7:00 p.m. |
| Saturday | Mar. 4 | at Cal State Bakersfield | Bakersfield, Calif. | 8:00 p.m. |
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