{"id":561822,"date":"2026-01-26T12:21:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T12:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/561822\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T12:21:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T12:21:19","slug":"ucf-mens-basketball-schedule-who-knights-face-week-of-jan-26-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/561822\/","title":{"rendered":"UCF men&#8217;s basketball schedule: Who Knights face week of Jan. 26-31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The is madness almost upon us. It&#8217;s never too early to start thinking of March Madness as conference play intensifies.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news-journalonline.com\/sports\/college\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UCF Knights;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UCF Knights<\/a> (14-4, 3-3 Big 12) men&#8217;s basketball team is getting to the crux of their conference schedule as they eye a bid to the NCAA tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Will they be able to improve their position this week? Or will they slip down the standings?<\/p>\n<p>Who do the UCF Knights play this week?<img alt=\"UCF Knights men's basketball head coach Johnny Dawkins watches the game from bench during the second half against Iowa State in the Big-12 conference men\u2019s basketball on Jan. 20, 2026, at Hilton Coliseum in Ames, Iowa.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"711\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0ac9be7854c3b1f2e6b1877a3963e57a.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>UCF Knights men&#8217;s basketball head coach Johnny Dawkins watches the game from bench during the second half against Iowa State in the Big-12 conference men\u2019s basketball on Jan. 20, 2026, at Hilton Coliseum in Ames, Iowa.<\/p>\n<p>The UCF Knights have two games this week. Both are at home:<\/p>\n<p>Jan 27: vs. Arizona State<\/p>\n<p>Jan 31: vs. Texas Tech<\/p>\n<p>UCF basketball NET rankings: No. 39<\/p>\n<p>Quad 1 record:\u00a02-4<\/p>\n<p>Quad 2 record:\u00a03-0<\/p>\n<p>Quad 3 record:\u00a04-0<\/p>\n<p>Quad 4 record:\u00a05-0<\/p>\n<p>UCF basketball KenPom rankings: No. 46<\/p>\n<p>Offensive efficiency:\u00a0No. 45<\/p>\n<p>Defensive efficiency:\u00a0No. 80<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news-journalonline.com\/story\/sports\/college\/ucf\/2026\/01\/26\/ucf-knights-mens-basketball-schedule-this-week\/88318988007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UCF Knights men&#039;s basketball schedule for Jan. 26-31;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UCF Knights men&#8217;s basketball schedule for Jan. 26-31<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The is madness almost upon us. It&#8217;s never too early to start thinking of March Madness as conference&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,217,231,772,1544,8858],"class_list":{"0":"post-561822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-basketball","12":"tag-ncaab","13":"tag-ucf-knights"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115961376777364869","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}