Rose Announces 2010-11 Schedule

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PROVO -- BYU basketball coach Dave Rose announced the 2010-11 schedule today, which features matchups with Arizona and UCLA, a trip to the South Padre Island Invitational and a nationally televised game at San Diego State on CBS. The Mountain West Conference also announced the games that will be televised by broadcast partners CBS College Sports Network (CBS C), VERSUS and The Mtn.

The nonconference schedule includes teams from 10 different leagues and seven teams that qualified for postseason play. Including conference foes, the Cougars will face 11 teams that qualified for postseason play — seven of which played in the NCAA Tournament.

BYU’s game at San Diego State on Feb. 26 will be televised live on CBS while CBS C (at UNLV on Jan. 5 and vs. San Diego State on Jan. 26) and VERSUS (at New Mexico on Jan. 29 and vs. UNLV on Feb. 5) will broadcast two conference games apiece. The Mtn. will broadcast the remaining conference games as well as the Nov. 17 home game against Utah State.

The Cougars will open the season by welcoming former coach Steve Cleveland and Fresno State to the Marriott Center on Nov. 12. That will be followed by the Utah State tilt and home matchups with Chicago State and Mississippi Valley State as part of the South Padre Island Invitational on Nov. 20 and 23, respectively. The Cougars will travel to South Padre Island, Texas, for a pair of games on Nov. 26 and 27 with potential opponents St. Mary’s, Texas Tech and South Florida.

BYU will remain on the road for a Dec. 1 matchup with Creighton as part of the Mountain West-Missouri Valley Challenge. On Dec. 4 BYU will face Hawaii at EnergySolutions Arena followed by a meeting with Vermont in Glens Falls, N.Y., at the Glens Falls Civic Center on Dec. 8. The Cougars head back to EnergySolutions on Dec. 11 to face Arizona of the Pac 10.

On Dec. 18, BYU faces its second-straight Pac 10 foe in UCLA at the John R. Wooden Classic in Anaheim, Calif., at the Honda Center. The Cougars then play at Weber State on Dec. 21 before returning home to play UTEP on Dec. 23. BYU basketball is currently working on scheduling two more nonconference games between the UTEP game and the MWC opener at UNLV on Jan. 5.

Following the conference opener the Cougars finish January with home games against Air Force (Jan. 8), TCU (Jan. 18) and San Diego State (Jan. 26) and road games at Utah (Jan. 11), Colorado State (Jan. 22) and New Mexico (Jan. 29).

February starts with a road game at Wyoming (Feb. 2) to conclude the first half of the MWC slate. The second half of the league schedule starts with UNLV at home (Feb. 5) followed by a trip to Air Force (Feb. 9). The Cougars also host Utah (Feb. 12), Colorado State (Feb. 23), New Mexico (March 2) and Wyoming (March 5) in the second half and play at TCU (Feb. 19) and San Diego State (Feb. 26).

The Mountain West Conference Tournament is scheduled for March 9 to 12 with the No. 8 vs. No. 9 game and the quarterfinals to be broadcast on The Mtn., the semifinals on CBS C and the championship game on VERSUS.

In the preseason BYU will host the Cougar Tipoff on Oct. 27 and play exhibitions against Laval (Oct. 29) and BYU-Hawaii (Nov. 5). Tipoff times and broadcast plans — including several games broadcast live by BYU TV — for the remaining nonconference games will be announced at a later date.

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