KU, Houston play Arizona just when next season

• Myron Medcalf, ESPN

  • Personnel WriterJun 27, 2024, 01:03 PM ET Close Covers college basketball
  • Joined ESPN.com in 2011
  • Graduate of Minnesota State University, Mankato

Arizona will deal with an onslaught during its launching in the broadened Huge 12 next season. But not the slate many had intended to see.The Wildcats will not fulfill Houston and Kansas– 2 forecasted top-five preseason teams– several times, per the league’s conference pairings that were launched Thursday, the very first schedule after the league added Colorado, Utah, Arizona and Arizona State for 2024-25.

Caleb Love and Arizona, getting in Huge 12 play, will just face Kansas and Houston once in their first project. Gabriel Mayberry-USA TODAY Sports

The arrival of Arizona, which will return forecasted All-American Caleb Love, included another basketball powerhouse to a league that has actually been considered as the top conference in the country, pound-for-pound, for more than a years. The addition presented an opportunity for the league to produce home-and-road meetings between the Wildcats and Kansas, the predicted No. 1 group in America getting in the season, and the Wildcats and Houston, which likewise appears to be a strong nationwide title contender again under Kelvin Sampson.Hunter Dickinson, a junior varsity Associated Press All-American in 2023-24, will anchor a Kansas squad that also included leading transfers AJ Storr and Zeke Mayo. L.J. Cryer and J’Wan Roberts are back to lead a Houston program that has won 97 games over the previous three years.But the only chance fans will get to see those 3 groups

tango will be during an Arizona-Houston game in Tucson and an Arizona-Kansas affair in Lawrence. The times and dates have actually not been announced.The OFFICIAL 2024-25 Huge 12 Guy’s Basketball Opponent Matrix pic.twitter.com/ytZp954fqT!.?.!— Big 12 Conference(@Big12Conference)June 27, 2024 But Arizona won’t have a simple trip during its first year in the Big 12. Tommy Lloyd’s team will deal with both Baylor and

Iowa State– another set of Big 12 squads with top-10 aspirations– in both home and roadway games. Still, the idea of Arizona facing Houston and Kansas several times was the most interesting providing the league had. That circumstance, nevertheless, will not unfold in 2024-25. On the women’s side, star Audi Crooks and Iowa State will fight Kansas State, a projected top-25 group entering 2024-25, in two matches next season and Baylor once in Waco.