CHENEY -- Road trips will be few and far between for the Eastern Washington University men's basketball team, as the preliminary 2020-21 Big Sky Conference schedule has been released. On Wednesday (Oct. 14) the Big Sky Presidents' Council approved the league schedule, which will help limit travel because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
League teams will typically play two games at a venue, with EWU's schedule starting with games on Dec. 3 and Dec. 5 versus Northern Arizona at Flagstaff, Ariz. Eastern will have 10 home games, starting New Year's Eve (Dec. 31) versus Portland State, followed by another home game versus the Vikings on Jan. 2.
A limited non-conference schedule has yet to be released by EWU, however, it will consist of limited games due to the early Big Sky Conference start. The Eagles began practices on Wednesday (Oct. 14) for the 2020-21 season, and the earliest date the National Collegiate Athletic Association is allowing NCAA Division I games to be played is Nov. 25.
Eastern will also play Big Sky home games versus Southern Utah (Jan. 14 & 16), Sacramento State (Jan. 28 & 30), Idaho (Feb. 6), Montana (Feb. 18) and Idaho State (March 4 & 6).
The Eagles will also travel to Ogden, Utah, to play at Weber State (Jan. 7 & 9), Greeley, Colo., to play Northern Colorado (Jan. 21 & 23), Moscow, Idaho, to take on Idaho (Feb. 4), Bozeman, Mont., to play Montana (Feb. 11 & 13) and Missoula, Mont., to face Montana (Feb. 20).
All 11 league teams will advance to the Big Sky Conference Basketball Championships, to be held for the third consecutive year at recently re-named Idaho Central Arena (formerly CenturyLink Arena) in Boise, Idaho. The neutral-site tournament will run from March 10-13, 2021, and begins two days earlier for the women.
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