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ROCK HILL, S.C. – The High Point University and Furman University males’s basketball groups will tip-off on faculty basketball’s opening night time, Monday, November 3 at 6:30 p.m. on the Rock Hill Sports and Event Center within the “Field of 68 Opening Day Marathon”.
“I love challenging our team right away,” Head Coach Flynn Clayman said. “Opening night, there’s going to be a ton of excitement. I expect this place to be absolutely rocking by tip-off. It’s a first-class area and facility in Rock Hill. It’s an elite place for a college basketball game.”
This would be the Panthers and Paladins’ first matchup for the reason that 2022-23 season and the fifth assembly between the groups for the reason that 2003-04 season (based on High Point’s data). HPU has solely defeated Furman as soon as out of the 4 conferences again in 2022, the identical season the Paladins earned a bid to the NCAA Tournament.
The High Point University males’s basketball group is coming off the very best season in program historical past and is happy for the upcoming 2025-26 season with the brand new management of Head Coach Flynn Clayman. HPU returns eight gamers from the 2024-25 Big South Regular Season and Tournament Championship group whereas including 10 newcomers for the upcoming season. Chase Johnston, the skin sharpshooter returns from the Panthers 2024-25 beginning lineup and will probably be joined by three energy 4 transfers and 4 postseason all-conference honorees from the switch portal.
The Furman males’s basketball group completed the 2024-25 season with a 25-10 total file and an 11-7 file within the Southern Conference league play. In the SoCon Tournament the No. 5 seed Paladins defeated No. 1 seed Chattanooga in extra time of the semifinals to advance to the Championship recreation. Furman fell to No. 6 seed Wofford within the Championship recreation and was invited to the National Invitational Tournament to play North Texas. Furman is coached by Bob Richey who enters his 11th season with the Paladins.
Tickets go on sale on September fifth at TicketReturn for the video games in Rock Hill, SC.
The video games will probably be broadcast on The Field of 68’s YouTube Channel and X feeds, and the community’s well-liked After Dark present will probably be broadcast dwell with a set at each venues.
#GoHPU x #OnTheProwl
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