College Basketball Schedule Must See Non-Conference Games in 2024

Still almost 50 days out, college basketball doesn’t make a splash landing until the first week of November. About the time the 12-team field for the college football playoff starts to be narrowed, the hoops season gets going with a slow buildup to a beefy menu of marquee matchups. Early season tournaments and the Champions Classic without John Calipari stand as games to mark on the calendar. Here are the games our staff is jotting down in Sharpie. North Carolina at Kansas, Nov. 8A Friday night at Phog Allen Fieldhouse provides a huge hello to hoops in a pairing of bluebloods sure to generate an audience and endless closeups of Roy Williams in the stands. Tennessee at Louisville, Nov. 9SEC Player of the Year Dalton Knecht was subtracted from the Vols’ roster and landed with the L…