STEVENS POINT, Wis. – UW-Stevens Point head men's basketball coach
Bob Semling has announced the team's schedule for the upcoming 2014-15 season.
2014-15 Schedule Last season, the Pointers won their 28th Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) championship and seventh league tournament title and advanced to the third round of the NCAA Tournament.
In 2014-15, UW-Stevens Point will again test itself against one of the toughest schedules in the country, as its opponents had a 267-185 (.591) combined record last season.
The season gets underway at home against Saint John's on Saturday, Nov. 15 at Bennett Court at Quandt Fieldhouse, where the Pointers are 231-33 (.875) since 1997.
The non-conference schedule also includes November road games against a pair of NCAA Tournament teams last year in St. Olaf and Hope. The Pointers then host Edgewood and North Central to close out the month.
Five of the Pointers' first seven games are at home, including a four-game stretch in which UWSP opens the WIAC portion of its schedule. Last season the Pointers finished third in the nation in average home attendance (1,754), a number that put the team ahead of 113 NCAA Division I programs in fan support.
UW-Stevens Point begins WIAC play at home against UW-Eau Claire on Wednesday, Dec. 3 before playing UW-Superior the following Saturday.
UWSP closes out their non-conference schedule with road games against Lawrence and St. Thomas, before traveling to Los Angeles in late December to face Pomona-Pitzer for the first time since 1987 and Claremont-Mudd-Scripps for the first time. The Pointers' non-conference opponents were 156-82 (.655) last season and UWSP played and defeated seven of its nine non-conference foes last season.
In WIAC play, UW-Stevens Point takes on defending national champion UW-Whitewater on the road on Wednesday, Jan. 21 and at home on Wednesday, Feb. 11. The Pointers and Warhawks have combined to win the last eight WIAC regular season championships. UWSP won two of the three meetings between the two schools last season.
UWSP will look for its ninth straight season with at least 20 wins and 12 WIAC victories in 2014-15 and its ninth straight NCAA Tournament appearance.
