TSU MBB releases 2017-18 schedule with games against Gonzaga, Kansas

HEAD COACH MIKE DAVIS
TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS

HOUSTON, Texas -- The Texas Southern Tigers have released their full 2017-18 basketball schedule. The Tigers will open the season Nov. 11 against Gonzaga at McCarthey Athletic Center in Spokane, Washington.

This season the Tigers will play a total of nine home games at the Health and Physical Education Arena, highlighted by conference games against Prairie View A&M (Jan. 6), and Southern University (Jan. 1). The Tigers game versus the Southern Jaguars will be broadcast live on ESPNU.

Last year, the Tigers won the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) Regular Season title for the third year in a row, and were crowned the SWAC Tournament champions, subsequently making their 7th NCAA tournament appearance in school history.

The Tigers will look to repeat this season, with this year's SWAC tournament being once again hosted in Houston with the event now moving to the Delmar Center.

2017-18 Men's Basketball Schedule 

From Head Coach Mike Davis:

On the non-conference games on this season's schedule:
"This schedule gives us another great opportunity to play really good teams on the road. I think our non-conference schedule prepares us for our conference play, and that's the most important thing for us, is to try to win our conference regular season and our conference tournament. "

On the conference games on this season's schedule:
Hopefully we can win some non-conference games and we can get a lot of fans, students, and alumni to come out and support us. Our alumni are doing a great job of coming to support us at games, and as always we want to build our student body fan-base, and hopefully we can win some of these non-conference games, which will really help in that area."

On his overall analysis of this year's team:
"We lost three grad/seniors this past year. We're hoping to continue to perform the way we have in the past and continue getting better this year."

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2017-18 Men's Basketball Schedule 

Date Opponent Location Time
11/11/2017 Gonzaga Spokane, Wash. 9:00 pm
11/13/2017 Washington State Pullman, Wash. TBA
11/16/2017 Ohio State Columbus, Ohio 8:00 pm
11/18/2017 Syracuse Syracuse, NY 6:00 pm
11/21/2017 Kansas Lawrence, Kan. 7:00 pm
11/24/2017 Clemson Clemson, SC 8:00 pm
11/30/2017 Oakland Oakland, Mich. 8:00 pm
12/2/2017 Toledo Toledo, Ohio 8:00 pm
12/11/2017 Oregon Eugene, Ore. 5:00 pm
12/14/2017 Baylor Waco, Texas 7:00 pm
12/16/2017 Wyoming Laramie, WY TBA
12/18/2017 TCU Ft. Worth, Texas 7:00 pm
12/23/2017 BYU Provo, Utah TBA
1/1/2018 Southern HPE Arena 4:00 pm
1/3/2018 Alcorn State HPE Arena 7:30 pm
1/6/2018 Prairie View A&M HPE Arena 7:30 pm
1/13/2018 Jackson State Jackson, Miss. 5:30 pm
1/15/2018 Grambling State Grambling, La. 7:30 pm
1/20/2018 Mississippi Valley State HPE Arena 7:30 pm
1/22/2018 Arkansas-Pine Bluff HPE Arena 7:30 pm
1/27/2018 Alabama A&M Huntsville, Ala. 5:30 pm
1/29/2018 Alabama State Montgomery, Ala. 7:30 pm
2/3/2018 Prairie View A&M Prairie View, Texas 7:30 pm
2/10/2018 Jackson State HPE Arena 7:30 pm
2/12/2018 Grambling State HPE Arena 7:30 pm
2/17/2018 Mississippi Valley State Itta Bena, Miss. 5:30 pm
2/19/2018 Arkansas-Pine Bluff Pine Bluff, Ark. 7:30 pm
2/24/2018 Alabama A&M HPE Arena 7:30 pm
2/26/2018 Alabama State HPE Arena 7:30 pm
3/1/2018 Southern Baton Rouge, La. 7:30 pm
3/3/2018 Alcorn State Lorman, Miss. 5:30 pm
3/6/2018 SWAC Tournament TBD TBA

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