What Will BYU Basketball’s 2025 Non-Conference Schedule Look Like?
The main pieces of BYU’s roster should be set, and players are trickling onto campus for summer workouts. BYU may add a couple end-of-bench and development type players, but the core of the roster is likely in place as we look forward to the anticipated 2025-2026 season.
Another piece to finalize is the non-conference schedule. The Big 12 moved from 20 to 18 games. meaning BYU will have 13 non-conference games to fill. Another new rule is the inclusion of D1 exhibition games. Previously, schools could play public exhibitions against non-D1 schools, “secret scrimmages” against D1 schools that couldn’t be broadcast or have media availability, or charity scrimmages against D1 schools where the proceeds had to go to charity. Now, schools can play two exhibitions against any school, broadcast the game with fans in attendance, and use the revenue however they would like.
Below is what we know about BYU’s non-conference schedule and what I’ve heard from industry sources.
What We Know
The below four games have been widely reported.
Exhibition: at Nebraska — Sources have told me this game will be Friday, October 17.
Villanova, November 3 (Las Vegas) — This is the opening night of the season and will be double header with Arizona-Florida.
Orlando MTE, November 27 & 28 — This four-team Thanksgiving tournament will also consist of Dayton, Miami, and Georgetown. BYU will play two of the three teams.
Clemson, December 9 (New York City) — This is a doubleheader with Florida-UConn as part of the Jimmy V Classic in Madison Square Garden.
What I’ve Heard
I expect BYU to have seven “buy” games and six Quad 1/Quad 2 type games. The above four fit the latter. Two buy games I’ve heard are Delaware and Eastern Washington. Industry sources have told me that BYU will host Delaware November 11 and Eastern Washington December 22.
Sources have told me that progress has been made on a series with Wisconsin. I expect the series would start in the Delta Center. I haven’t heard where the return game would be, although Milwaukee makes sense. BYU and Wisconsin, of course, met in a thrilling round of 32 matchup. ESPN’s Jeff Borzello had Wisconsin at 14 in his way-too-early rankings last month.
BYU has also been having discussions of a neutral site game in Boston, which would be a AJ Dybantsa homecoming game. BYU has had talks with ACC, Big East, and Atlantic 10 teams for a game.
In addition to Nebraska, BYU has been working on a second October exhibition game with a Power Conference team in the Delta Center. These would be preseason games and not count towards the regular season record.
All told BYU’s schedule is shaping up to be 1) Two exhibitions versus P5 opponents, 2) Six Neutral site games versus P5 opponents, and 3) Seven buy games in Provo. This is a much more competitive schedule compared to last year and would allow BYU to prepare for Big 12 play and stack up some Quad One wins prior to conference play. The neutral site games need to be versus top 50 NET teams to be considered Quad One, as opposed to top 30 teams at home.
