Big South Announces 2022-23 Men's Basketball Conference Schedule
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (www.BigSouthSports.com) – The Big South Conference revealed its 2022-23 men’s basketball composite league schedule Tuesday afternoon. The 90-game slate begins on Thursday, Dec. 29 and is an 18-game, double round-robin schedule to determine the 2022-23 regular-season champion.
The slate features two games a week on Wednesdays and Saturdays, with the exception of the conference openers on Thursday, Dec. 29, plus games on New Year’s Eve. The regular-season concludes Saturday, Feb. 25.
Six Thursday national television appearances on ESPNU -- Jan. 12, Jan. 26, Feb. 2, Feb. 9, Feb. 16 and Feb. 23 -- will be Wildcard selections 14-21 days in advance and chosen from the slate of Wednesday games scheduled the day before the respective broadcast date.
Defending Big South Regular-season and Tournament Champion Longwood will open its regular-season title defense at home on Thursday, Dec. 29 against High Point. The Lancers’ second home contest will be Saturday, Jan. 7 vs. Winthrop in a rematch of last year’s Big South Championship game, while the second meeting between the squads will be Feb. 1 in Rock Hill, S.C.
Also opening the conference season at home on Dec. 29 will be Gardner-Webb (vs. Charleston Southern), Presbyterian (vs. Campbell), UNC Asheville (vs. Radford) and USC Upstate (vs. Winthrop). Longwood and USC Upstate will start and end conference action at home, while Campbell and High Point will begin and finish league play with road games.
The season culminates with the 2023 Hercules Tires Big South Men’s Basketball Championship, which will be held at Bojangles Coliseum in Charlotte, N.C., from March 1-5. Two first round games will be Wednesday, March 1, followed by four quarterfinal contests on Friday, March 3. The semifinals are scheduled for Saturday, March 4, with the Championship game on Sunday, March 5.
The 2022-23 Big South Men’s Basketball Conference schedule and team-by-team listings are available here in .pdf format. Confirmed game times and television coverage will be available at a later date.