SPARTANBURG, S.C. – The Southern Conference announced its 2023-24 men’s basketball league schedule Tuesday. The SoCon’s 10 men’s basketball teams will all play double-round-robin, 18-game intraleague schedules, totaling 90 league contests over nine weeks from Wednesday, Jan. 3, to Saturday, March 2.
 
All 10 teams open league play on Jan. 3. After another full lineup of games on Saturday, Jan. 6, the schedule settles into a Wednesday-Saturday format outside a pair of Thursday games on Jan. 11 and Feb. 8. Samford versus UNCG and VMI against Chattanooga will be the home-and-home matchups on those two Thursdays. Additional games might later be moved due to national television assignments.
 
Among other notable games on the slate this season, Furman hosts Samford on Wednesday, Jan. 24, in a matchup of the two squads that shared the 2022-23 regular-season crown. The teams square off again exactly four weeks later at Samford.
 
ETSU’s Brooks Savage, who served as an assistant with the Buccaneers from 2015-20, begins his first stint through the league as the head man in Johnson City when ETSU hosts Mercer to begin SoCon play. Wofford’s Dwight Perry is beginning his first full season at the helm of the Terriers. Perry, who had been an assistant at Wofford for four seasons, served as the interim head coach for the final three months of the 2022-23 season, including all conference games.
 
The 2024 Ingles Southern Conference Basketball Championship will take place at Harrah’s Cherokee Center – Asheville in Asheville, North Carolina, from March 8-11.
 
Full broadcast schedules will be announced later, but all 10 schools’ home games will air on ESPN+ if not selected for national or regional broadcast. Five SoCon regular-season games and three tournament games aired on ESPN networks last season, while another five regular-season contests aired on CBS Sports Network. The league broadcast schedule will also continue to feature its Ingles SoCon Game of the Week on select Nexstar affiliates throughout the Southeast.
 
The 103rd season of Southern Conference basketball opens with nonconference play on Monday, Nov. 6.
 
For the composite league schedule, visit SoConSports.com. The full composite schedule will be posted when it has been completed.