Non-Conference Preview: Evansville – 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 15th — vs Marquette (in Chicago)

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 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 Evansville Purple Aces

Evansville became the school we know today in 1919 when they moved to the Indiana town of Evansville from Moore’s Hill, Indiana. Moore’s Hill College was founded in 1854, but the whole thing picked up and moved to Evansville.

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As a basketball program, the Purple Aces were a powerhouse during its Division 2 years up until 1977 when they made the transition to the Midwest Collegiate Conference, now called the Horizon League. As a D2 school, The Aces won five national championships between 1959 and 1971. They rostered several NBA players during that era including Jerry Sloan, who also went on to be the long time coach of the Utah Jazz.

In 1994, they became members of the Missouri Valley Conference. The MVC has proven a more complex puzzle as the program has mostly struggled since the…

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