VMI Basketball will travel to Pitt to face the perennial ACC bubble team on Nov. 18.
That’s the one side of the Keydets’ 2024-2025 non-conference schedule, which was announced on Friday.
The other side: the four non-D1 games.
Four (!).
That’s how you have to schedule when you’re coming off a 4-28 season, I guess.
Only one of those wins in 2023-2024 was against a D1 opponent, the 70-63 win over The Citadel in January.
Third-year coach Andrew Wilson is 11-53 at VMI, with five wins in D1 over his first two seasons.
A press release from the school tried to put things in the best possible light.
“I’m very excited about our non-conference portion of the schedule,” Wilson said in a statement in the release. “We will be tested in many different environments, which will help prepare us for the demanding SoCon schedule. Many of our alumni and supporters will get the opportunity to watch us in person with several road and neutral site games within close proximity to post.”
The non-conference schedule also has road games at Bellarmine (Nov. 9), Davidson (Nov. 22), George Washington (Nov. 29) and Richmond (Dec. 21).
The one D1 home game in the non-conference slate is Queens College, part of the ASUN-SoCon Challenge, on Dec. 7.
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