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Full schedule features ASU, Vegas event
11/16/2020 3:45:00 PM | Men's Basketball, Paul Coro
NCAA tourney teams, top programs visit GCU Arena
The prospect of assembling a nonconference schedule was particularly daunting for this season, but Grand Canyon managed the task by scheduling more home games for safety and tough tests for improvement.
The Lopes are scheduled to play their first seven games at GCU Arena, where attendance will be restricted to a limited number of students only because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
That home slate opens Nov. 25 against Grambling State and includes consecutive December visits from Nevada, which is 129-46 over the past five seasons, and Arizona State, the nation's preseason No. 18 team after being on track for its third consecutive NCAA tournament trip last season.
After the initial seven home games, GCU is slated to head to Las Vegas' T-Mobile Arena for the Dec. 20-22 Far West Classic that matches the Lopes with two more strong programs in San Francisco and Colorado.
"Scheduling has been very complicated and ever-changing this year," GCU head coach Bryce Drew said. "It is nice to have a full schedule set in place as we approach the start of a new season."
Overall, the Lopes will add eight nonconference home games to a GCU Arena slate that also features its eight conference home games, including two against WAC champion New Mexico State.
The season begins Nov. 25 with Grambling State, which went 17-15 last season for its fourth consecutive season of 16 or more wins.
After Park (Ariz.) visits on Nov. 28, former Phoenix Suns coach and NBA star Lindsey Hunter will bring his Mississippi Valley State squad on Dec. 1.
Prairie View A&M follows on Dec. 5, as it comes off a 19-13 season that was a strong follow-up to its 22-13 NCAA tournament-qualifying season in 2018-19.
That will set up the Nevada-ASU weekend (Dec. 11-13) at GCU Arena.
Nevada, coached by Drew's fellow Indiana hoops legend Steve Alford, has reached three of the past four NCAA tournaments and went 19-12 last season under Alford. One starter returns for the Wolf Pack, which brought in transfers from Wichita State and Oregon State, just as GCU did.
ASU went 20-11 last season and brings back the Pac-12's second-leading scorer, Remy Martin, as well as Alonzo Verge Jr., a junior college teammate of GCU's Sean Miller-Moore. The Sun Devils added a five-star recruit in Josh Christopher as well as Marcus Bagley, the brother of Phoenix-raised Sacramento Kings player Marvin Bagley III.
The ASU-GCU game will mark the teams' first Division I meeting, although the Lopes and Sun Devils opened GCU Arena in 2011 for an exhibition game and met once when the Lopes were an NAIA program.
After a Dec. 15 in-state game against SAGU, the Lopes will take a test trip to Las Vegas, where it will return in March for the WAC Tournament.
GCU will play San Francisco at T-Mobile Arena, which opened in 2017, after the Lopes and Dons were initially scheduled to meet in the Jerry Colangelo Classic, which will not be held this year because of COVID-19 restrictions. San Francisco, coached by Phoenix native Todd Golden, went 22-12 last season for its fourth consecutive 20-win season. This will be former Lopes guard Damari Milstead's first season in action there.
Two days later, the Lopes will face their second Pac-12 foe in 10 days when they play Colorado. The Buffaloes return All-Pac-12 point guard McKinley Wright IV from a 21-11 team, the eighth 20-win season in a decade under head coach Tad Boyle. Colorado has reached the NCAA tournament four times in that stretch.
GCU also welcome Denver on Dec. 29 and added a nonconference home game for its idle conference week – CSU Northridge on Feb. 12. The Matadors are in their third season under Mark Gottfried, who coached Alabama and North Carolina State from 1998 to 2017.
To view the schedule in its entirety, click here.
The Lopes are scheduled to play their first seven games at GCU Arena, where attendance will be restricted to a limited number of students only because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
That home slate opens Nov. 25 against Grambling State and includes consecutive December visits from Nevada, which is 129-46 over the past five seasons, and Arizona State, the nation's preseason No. 18 team after being on track for its third consecutive NCAA tournament trip last season.
After the initial seven home games, GCU is slated to head to Las Vegas' T-Mobile Arena for the Dec. 20-22 Far West Classic that matches the Lopes with two more strong programs in San Francisco and Colorado.
"Scheduling has been very complicated and ever-changing this year," GCU head coach Bryce Drew said. "It is nice to have a full schedule set in place as we approach the start of a new season."
Overall, the Lopes will add eight nonconference home games to a GCU Arena slate that also features its eight conference home games, including two against WAC champion New Mexico State.
The season begins Nov. 25 with Grambling State, which went 17-15 last season for its fourth consecutive season of 16 or more wins.
After Park (Ariz.) visits on Nov. 28, former Phoenix Suns coach and NBA star Lindsey Hunter will bring his Mississippi Valley State squad on Dec. 1.
Prairie View A&M follows on Dec. 5, as it comes off a 19-13 season that was a strong follow-up to its 22-13 NCAA tournament-qualifying season in 2018-19.
That will set up the Nevada-ASU weekend (Dec. 11-13) at GCU Arena.
Nevada, coached by Drew's fellow Indiana hoops legend Steve Alford, has reached three of the past four NCAA tournaments and went 19-12 last season under Alford. One starter returns for the Wolf Pack, which brought in transfers from Wichita State and Oregon State, just as GCU did.
ASU went 20-11 last season and brings back the Pac-12's second-leading scorer, Remy Martin, as well as Alonzo Verge Jr., a junior college teammate of GCU's Sean Miller-Moore. The Sun Devils added a five-star recruit in Josh Christopher as well as Marcus Bagley, the brother of Phoenix-raised Sacramento Kings player Marvin Bagley III.
The ASU-GCU game will mark the teams' first Division I meeting, although the Lopes and Sun Devils opened GCU Arena in 2011 for an exhibition game and met once when the Lopes were an NAIA program.
After a Dec. 15 in-state game against SAGU, the Lopes will take a test trip to Las Vegas, where it will return in March for the WAC Tournament.
GCU will play San Francisco at T-Mobile Arena, which opened in 2017, after the Lopes and Dons were initially scheduled to meet in the Jerry Colangelo Classic, which will not be held this year because of COVID-19 restrictions. San Francisco, coached by Phoenix native Todd Golden, went 22-12 last season for its fourth consecutive 20-win season. This will be former Lopes guard Damari Milstead's first season in action there.
Two days later, the Lopes will face their second Pac-12 foe in 10 days when they play Colorado. The Buffaloes return All-Pac-12 point guard McKinley Wright IV from a 21-11 team, the eighth 20-win season in a decade under head coach Tad Boyle. Colorado has reached the NCAA tournament four times in that stretch.
GCU also welcome Denver on Dec. 29 and added a nonconference home game for its idle conference week – CSU Northridge on Feb. 12. The Matadors are in their third season under Mark Gottfried, who coached Alabama and North Carolina State from 1998 to 2017.
To view the schedule in its entirety, click here.
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