Howard U. Men's Basketball Announces 2015-16 Schedule

WASHINGTON, D.C. --  The Howard University men's basketball team has announced its schedule for the upcoming 2015-16 season.

The Bison are coming off a 2014-15 campaign in which they posted 16 wins, the most in over a decade. They will play 15 games at home this season, the most in over three decades.

The season opens at UMass on November 13 and Rutgers on November 15 as part of the MGM Grand Main Event tournament.

Howard, which returns four starters, will then host Division III Medgar Evers College on Friday, November 20 at 6 p.m.. in Burr Gymnasium.

The team will then travel to Las Vegas for the Middleweight Bracket of the MGM Grand Main Event with a game against Texas Southern on November 23. The Bison will face Texas-San Antonio (UTSA) or Central Arkansas in either the Middleweight Championship Game or Consolation Game on November 25.

HU will return home for back-to-back matchups against The College of William & Mary on November 28 and USCAA member Central Penn College on November 30.

Howard opens Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) play at North Carolina A&T on December 5 and at North Carolina Central on December 7. A trip to Purdue follows on December 8, followed by home games against Radford and the University of Maryland Baltimore County on December 12 and 19, respectively. Those home contests will have special significance as the coaches of the two teams formerly played at Howard and served as assistant coaches here., HU alum Mike Jones is the head coach at Radford and Aki Thomas is the head man at UMBC.

Howard takes to the road again with non-conference games at Central Michigan, at Columbia and at the University of Hawaii in an 11-day span (December 21 to January 1).,The Bison are back home on January 6 when they host Cornell and on January 9 in a home MEAC tilt with Coppin State.

After traveling to Delaware State on January 11, the Bison will close out the non-conference schedule with an important home game against Harvard, marking the first time that the Crimson has played at Burr.,

From there, the Bison play seven of their last 10 MEAC games at Burr with Senior Night coming on February 22 against South Carolina State.

The MEAC Tournament gets underway on March 7 and runs through March 12 at the Norfolk Scope in Norfolk, VA.

HOWARD UNIVERSITY BISON 2015 MEN'S BASKETBALL SCHEDULE

Date	Opponent	Location	Time
MGM Grand Main Event
11/13/2015	UMass	Amherst, MA	7:00:00 PM
11/15/2015	Rutgers	Piscataway, NJ	4:00:00 PM
11/20/2015	Medgar Evers College	Washington, DC	6:00:00 PM
MGM Grand Main Event
11/23/2015	Texas Southern	Las Vegas, NV	TBA
11/25/2015	UTSA / Central Arkansas	Las Vegas, NV	TBA
11/28/2015	William & Mary	Washington, DC	4:00:00 PM
11/30/2015	Central Penn College	Washington, DC	7:00:00 PM
12/5/2015	North Carolina A&T	Greensboro, NC	2:00:00 PM
12/7/2015	North Carolina Central	Durham, NC	6:00:00 PM
12/9/2015	Purdue	West Lafayette, IN	7:00:00 PM
12/12/2015	Radford	Washington, DC	4:00:00 PM
12/19/2015	Maryland Baltimore County	Washington, DC	TBA
12/21/2015	Central Michigan	Mount Pleasant, MI	7:00:00 PM
12/28/2015	Columbia	New York, NY	4:00:00 PM
1/1/2016	Hawaii	Manoa, HI	TBA
1/6/2016	Cornell	Washington, DC	7:00:00 PM
1/9/2016	Coppin State	Washington, DC	7:00:00 PM
1/11/2016	Delaware State	Dover, DE	7:00:00 PM
1/16/2016	Harvard	Washington, DC	4:00:00 PM
1/23/2016	Florida A&M	Washington, DC	4:00:00 PM
1/25/2016	Bethune-Cookman	Washington, DC	7:30:00 PM
1/30/2016	Morgan State	Baltimore, MD	4:00:00 PM
2/1/2016	Maryland Eastern Shore	Princess Anne, MD	7:30:00 PM
2/6/2016	Norfolk State	Washington, DC	4:30:00 PM
2/8/2016	Hampton	Washington, DC	8:00:00 PM
2/13/2016	Coppin State	Baltimore, MD	4:00:00 PM
2/15/2016	Maryland Eastern Shore	Washington, DC	7:00:00 PM
2/20/2016	Savannah State	Washington, DC	4:00:00 PM
2/22/2016	South Carolina State	Washington, DC	7:00:00 PM
2/27/2016	Hampton	Hampton, VA	7:00:00 PM
3/1/2016	Norfolk State	Norfolk, VA	8:00:00 PM
3/7/2016	MEAC Tournament	Norfolk, VA	TBA

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