Non-Conference Preview: SIU-Edwardsville – Yahoo Sports

We are counting down the days to the start of the college basketball season.

If you’re reading this on the day it was published, we have 47 days to the official start of College Basketball, and 36 days until we can see the team in action against K-State (presuming it’s televised).

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The Full Non-Conference Schedule:

October 23rd — at Kansas State (exhibition)

October 29th — at UNLV (exhibition)

November 6th — vs Saint Louis (in St. Louis)

November 9th — vs SIU-Edwardsville

November 15th — vs Marquette (in Chicago)

November 18th — vs Alcorn State

November 20th — vs Le Moyne

November 24th — vs Evansville

November 27th — vs Arkansas Pine Bluff

December 1st — vs Pittsburgh (ACC-SEC Challenge)

December 6th — vs Kansas (in Kansas City)

December 12th — vs Nebraska (in Kansas City)

December 18th — at Indiana

December 20th — vs Illinois (in St. Louis)

December 22nd — vs Chicago State

After the last few years of a poor lineup of Q4 games in the non-conference schedule, Missouri pulled a 180 and have schedule as well as anyone in the country. On top of playing Illinois and Kansas as previously scheduled, the Tigers are playing neutral court matchups against SLU, Marquette, Nebraska, and a road game at Indiana. There’s no question Dennis Gates stepped it up.

Let’s Meet: the SIU-Edwardsville Cougars

Founded in 1957, SIU-Edwardsville was an extension of the Southern Illinois-Carbondale campus. The Carbondale campus has since dropped the town name from its official name and just calls itself SIU, but Edwardsville is stuck with the E.

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In 1967 they added athletics, and in 2007 the school moved from Division II to Division I.

The basketball team plays at the Vadabalene Center, a multi-purpose athletics building on campus that seats a little more than 4,000.

Since moving to D1, SIUE has made one NCAA Tournament and that was in 2025, under the current coach. But the success has been fleeting. At least up until the 2022-23 season when they won more than 12 games…

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