Games against Colorado, Denver, Air Force and Texas Tech highlight the University of Northern Colorado men’s basketball nonconference schedule for the 2025-26.
The UNC men’s and women’s teams announced nonconference opponents and game time earlier this week, finishing off 31-game schedules for both programs.
The Big Sky Conference and UNC previously announced conference schedules for men’s and women’s teams. Those schedules are 18 games with a home and away game against the nine other Big Sky schools.
Both UNC teams open Monday, Nov. 3 with a doubleheader at Bank of Colorado Arena in Greeley. The women host Northern New Mexico at 5 p.m., followed by the men playing Colorado College at 7:30 p.m.
University of Northern Colorado’s Brock Wisne, right, looks to pass while playing Montana in a Big Sky Conference game in February 2025 at Bank of Colorado Arena in Greeley. (Greeley Tribune file).
The UNC men then play five of their next seven games on the road. Three of those games will be Nov. 21-23 at the Portland Invitational in Portland, Oregon.
The Bears play at Air Force in late November, two games in the Big Sky Conference-Summit League Challenge against Omaha and South Dakota in early December, followed by games at Texas Tech (Dec. 16), home against Denver (Dec. 20) and at the University of Colorado in Boulder (Dec. 28).
UNC also played Colorado College, Colorado, Colorado Christian and Texas Tech last year.
The rest of the nonconference schedule follows:
Nov. 7 — Colorado Christian, 6 p.m. at Bank of Colorado; Nov. 15 — at Pepperdine, TBD; Nov. 21 — St. Thomas, 5:30 p.m. in the Portland Invitational; Nov. 22 — Portland, 6 p.m. in the Portland Invitational; Nov. 23 — California State Fullerton, 12:30 p.m. in the Portland Invitational; Nov. 26 — at Air Force, TBD; Nov. 29 — Regis, 6 p.m. at Bank of Colorado; Dec. 3 — at Omaha (Big Sky-Summit League Challenge), TBD; Dec. 6 — South Dakota, 6 p.m. (Big Sky-Summit League Challenge); Dec. 16 — at Texas Tech, TBD; Dec. 20 — Denver, 1 p.m. at Bank of Colorado; Dec. 28 — at University of Colorado, TBD.
UNC is the defending co-Big Sky Conference regular-season champion. The Bears shared the title with Montana, going to the conference tournament as the top seed. Montana defeated UNC for the conference tournament title in the teams’ third meeting of the season. UNC qualified for the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) for the first time in school history, losing a first-round game at UC Irvine.
UNC finished the season 15-3 in the Big Sky and 25-10 overall.