BOULDER – The University of Colorado men’s basketball office has released the 2013-2014 non-conference schedule Monday afternoon for the upcoming season featuring 13 opponents with nine home games, two road and two neutral court games.

Head Coach Tad Boyle and his staff return four starters from last year’s team that won 21 games, went to their second straight NCAA Tournament and a school-first, third straight post-season appearance.

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The CU non-conference slate is perhaps the most competitive seen where nine of the 13 opponents won 18 or more games a year ago, and eight of them making one of the four post-season tournaments, including four to the NCAA Tournament. Overall, CU’s opponent’s record a year ago achieved a 248-176 mark (.585).

The 2013-2014 schedule begins on a neutral court for the first time in 17 years (1996-97). CU will take on Baylor (Friday, Nov. 8) at the American Airlines Arena in Dallas. The former Big 12 Conference opponents will be playing each other for the third straight year on a neutral court.

Last year, CU defeated Baylor in the semifinals at the Charleston Classic, 60-58 en route the tournament title. In 2011-12, the Bears upended the Buffs in the NCAA Tournament third round (80-63) in Albuquerque.

The three other games away from Boulder will see CU taking on another former Big 12 Conference foe Oklahoma State (Saturday, Dec. 21) at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas on ESPN2 (9:30 p.m. MT).

Road games are schools from the Front Range at Air Force (Sat., Nov. 30) and Colorado State (Tue., Dec. 3).

Nine home games will be featured at the Coors Events Center during the November and December months, the most home games to open the non-conference season since 2008-09 when the Buffs also played nine home games.

The home opener is Sunday, Nov. 10 against Tennessee-Martin; followed by Wyoming (Wed., Nov. 13); Jackson State (Sat., Nov. 16); Arkansas State (Mon. Nov. 18); Santa Barbara (Thur., Nov. 21) and Harvard (Sun., Nov. 24). The six consecutive home non-conference games, are a school-first.

In December, CU will host Kansas (Sat., Dec. 7); Elon (Fri., Dec. 13), and close the home non-conference portion of the schedule against Georgia (Sat., Dec. 28).

Tip times and television listings with the exception of the Dec. 21 game against Oklahoma State are to be announced.

The Pac-12 Conference schedule is set to be released at the end of August or in September.

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