The UCF Knights have put together another compelling schedule for their second season of Big 12 Conference men’s basketball under coach Johnny Dawkins.

Dawkins begins his eighth season at the helm of the program. Before that, he was the head coach at Stanford for eight seasons.

He led the Knights to the NIT Tournament last season, where the Knights finished 17-16. Her best mark as a first-year Big 12 member was a home win against Kansas in January in front of a national television audience.

Now Dawkins hopes to get the Knights back to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2019.

The Knights will travel to the Greenbrier Tip-off at The Greenbrier in White Sulfur Springs, WV for their multi-team event and then face Tulsa in the Orange Bowl Basketball Classic in Sunrise, Florida in December.

The schedule includes 11 non-conference games and 20 Big 12 games, the latter marking the first time the conference has fielded a 20-game league schedule.

That schedule spans 10 weeks straight, meaning the Knights have played two games a week for more than two months leading up to the Big 12 Tournament in Kansas City in March.

The Big 12 Tournament will take place March 11-15 at T-Mobile Arena and all 16 teams will participate. The exact format of the bracket will be announced at a later date.

Here’s the entire schedule with show times and TV names.

UCF Knights 2024-25 schedule

(all times local)

Nov. 4 vs. Texas A&M, 7 p.m

Nov. 8 vs. Purdue Fort Wayne, 7 p.m

Nov. 12 vs. Florida Atlantic, 7 p.m

Nov. 19 vs. Tennessee Tech, 7 p.m

Nov. 22 vs. Wisconsin@, 5 p.m

Nov. 24 vs. Pitt or LSU@, 3 or 5:30 p.m

Nov. 27 vs. Milwaukee, 7 p.m

Dec. 1 vs. Cal Baptist, 4 p.m

Dec. 8 vs. Tarleton, 1 p.m

December 14th vs. Tulsa#, 2 p.m

Dec. 21 vs. Jacksonville, 6 p.m

December 31 at Texas Tech*, TBA

January 5th vs. Kansas*, TBA

January 8th vs. Colorado*, TBA

January 11th in Arizona*, TBA

January 14 at Arizona State*, TBA

January 18 vs. Houston*, TBA

Jan. 21 at Iowa State*, TBA

Jan. 25 vs. TCU*, TBA

January 28 in Kansas*, TBA

February 1 vs. BYU*, TBA

February 5th vs. Cincinnati*, TBA

February 8 at Baylor*, TBA

February 11 vs. Iowa State*, TBA

February 15 in Colorado*, TBA

February 19 at Oklahoma State*, TBA

February 23rd vs. Utah*, TBA

February 26 vs. Kansas State*, TBA

March 1 at TCU*, TBA

March 5 vs. Oklahoma State*, TBA

March 8 in West Virginia*, TBA

11th–15th March: Big 12 Tournament, Kansas City, Missouri.

All home games in bold and at Addition Financial Arena, Orlando, Florida; *-Big 12 Conference games; @-Greenbrier Tip-off, The Greenbrier, White Sulfur Springs, WV; #-Orange Bowl Basketball Classic, Amerant Bank Arena, Sunrise, Florida; The Big 12 Tournament will take place at the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri.

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