Front Range, Big East, Big Ten Highlight Men's Hoops Early Schedule

BOULDER – Regional rivalries and a broad stroke of major conferences highlight the University of Colorado's 2017-18 men's basketball nonconference schedule.

The Buffaloes will host a quartet of Front Range teams – and play a fifth on the road. Colorado will also tip off against the Big Ten and Big East Conferences with potential games against the ACC and American Athletic Conference.

Colorado completes a home-and-home series with Xavier out of the Big East on Saturday, Dec. 9, in Cincinnati. In one of the Buffaloes' best games of the 2016-17 campaign, Colorado knocked off the No. 13/14 ranked Musketeers, 68-66, on Dec. 7 in Boulder. Xavier would go on to finish 18^th in the final USA Today Coaches poll after advancing to the Elite 8 of the NCAA Tournament.

A good Pac-12 Conference tune up also awaits the Buffaloes in late December. Colorado will play Iowa at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, S.D., on Friday, Dec. 22, one week before conference play begins. Iowa just missed out on the NCAA Tournament in 2017 and was a No. 1 seed in the NIT, advancing to the second round.

Colorado begins the 2017-18 season with a pair of home games. The Buffaloes open with Northern Colorado on Friday, Nov. 10, and then host Denver, led by former CU assistant coach Rodney Billups, for the first time in 10 years on Tuesday, Nov. 14.

As previously announced, Colorado will participate in the 2017 Paradise Jam, Nov. 17-20, in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Buffaloes open with Quinnipiac on Friday, Nov. 17, at 3:30 MST. Another first round match-up of Wake Forest and Drake will determine the next opponent for the Buffaloes and Bobcats. The winners will have a day off and play in a semifinal game on Sunday, Nov. 19, at 5:30 p.m. The losers will open consolation play on Saturday, Nov. 18, at 3:30 p.m.

All Paradise Jam games will be streamed live at FloHoops.com, tournament directors announced on Wednesday along with the time slots for all 12 games of the championship. The other side of the Paradise Jam bracket features Houston, Drexel, Mercer and Liberty. The championship game is set for Monday, Nov. 20, at 5:30 p.m. MST.

Following the Paradise Jam, Colorado returns for four of its next six at home. The Buffaloes return to action by hosting Air Force on Sunday, Nov. 26. Colorado then heads north to face Colorado State on Saturday, Dec. 2, in Fort Collins.

New Mexico visits the Coors Events Center on Wednesday, Dec. 6 and after its trip to Xavier, Colorado rounds out home nonconference games against San Diego on Tuesday, Dec. 12 and South Dakota State on Friday Dec. 15.

Times and television for Colorado's nonconference home games will be announced by the Pac-12 later this summer, when the entire league slate is revealed. The Pac-12 announced weekly home/away designations for conference games in June.

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2017-18 Colorado Men's Basketball Nonconference Schedule

DATE	OPPONENT	LOCATION
Friday, Nov. 10	NORTHERN COLORADO	BOULDER
Tuesday, Nov. 14	DENVER	BOULDER
Friday, Nov. 17	^-vs. Quinnipiac	St. Thomas, U.S. VI
Nov. 18-19	^-vs. Wake Forest/Drake	St. Thomas, U.S. VI
Monday, Nov. 20	^-vs. TBA	St. Thomas, U.S. VI
Sunday, Nov. 26	AIR FORCE	BOULDER
Saturday, Dec. 2	at Colorado State	Fort Collins, Colo.
Wednesday, Dec. 6	NEW MEXICO	BOULDER
Saturday, Dec. 9	at Xavier	Cincinnati, Ohio
Tuesday, Dec. 12	SAN DIEGO	BOULDER
Friday, Dec. 15	SOUTH DAKOTA STATE	BOULDER
Friday, Dec. 22	#-vs. Iowa	Sioux Falls, S.D.
Thursday, Dec. 28	Pac-12 Season Opens	TBA

^-Paradise Jam (St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands); #-at Sanford Pentagon (Sioux Falls, S.D.)

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