Yahoo Autos Arizona colleges this week in college basketball: Matchups for opening week
The college basketball season opens on Monday with nearly every Division I team in the country in action. On the men's side alone there are more than 200 games on the schedule.
The Arizona State men are the first in-state team to tip off. The Sun Devils host Tarleton State at 5 p.m. at Wells Fargo Arena. The Sun Devils are showing off a new look that has head coach Bobby Hurley excited for the season. The team's Monday opponent won't notice anything new about the Sun Devils, however. ASU and Tarleton State have not met previously. A member of the WAC, Tarleton went 14-17 during the 2021-22 season. The Texans played a solid non-conference schedule with games against Kansas, Michigan and Gonzaga during the first month of that season.
On Thursday, ASU will host NAU with a 7 p.m. tipoff. The Sun Devils and Lumberjacks last played in 2017 when ASU won, 97-62. The teams are 2-2 against each other since first playing in 2005. The Sun Devils will finish their week Nov. 13 at Texas Southern for a 1 p.m. start.
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Grand Canyon plays three games in six days to open the season. The Antelopes host Montana State (7 p.m. Monday) and San Diego Christian (7 p.m. Wednesday) before facing the real challenge at Nevada (2 p.m. Saturday). GCU finished the 2021-22 season with a 23-8 record, but saw its run end in the WAC tournament was it fell to top-seeded New Mexico State. Nevada out of the Mountain West is coming off a couple of down seasons, but had a string of 20-win seasons between 2015 and 2020. ... The Arizona Wildcats face Nicholls State (Monday 7:30 p.m.) and Southern U (Friday 7 p.m.) during the first week the season.
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Natasha Adair makes her ASU coaching debut when the Sun Devils hosts NAU on Monday at 8 p.m. It's the second game of a double feature of sorts, in which the ASU men and Tarleton State play the opening act. ASU will then travel to Grambling State (2:30 p.m. Friday) to end its week. ... NAU will continue its sweep through the southern part of the state with a stop at the Arizona to play the Wildcats on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. That game will serve as the season-opener for No. 19 Arizona, which is the only Division I team in the state that doesn't play on Monday. UA will then host CSUN on Monday at 5 p.m.
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