Murray State announced on Thursday they will host Bellarmine on December 6th at the CFSB Center. This will be the third meeting between the two programs after they played a home-and-home series back in 2021 and 2022.
This game on December 6th will also be the night Murray State’s 1999-2000 Ohio Valley Conference championship team will be honored as they receive their championship rings.
In all, the Racers will play five home games, one road game and five neutral-site games in the non-conference portion of their schedule.
With today’s announcement, Murray State’s non-conference schedule is essentially complete. The only missing pieces to the puzzle are finding who the Racers will play, and when, in their home exhibition game; the date for the home game with Little Rock; and the opponent for the Field of 68 Opening Day Showcase game on November 3rd.
Here’s how this season’s non-conference schedule looks at this moment:
October 18th — at Xavier (Exhibition)
TBA — Home exhibition game
TBA — Home vs. Little Rock (Back end of a home-and-home series that started in 2023-24)
November 3 — vs. TBA (in Sioux Falls, SD at The Field of 68 Opening Day Showcase)
November 7 — vs. Mississippi Valley State
November 11 — at SMU
November 15 — vs. Nicholls
November 23 — vs. Middle Tennessee (Cayman Islands Classic)
November 24 — vs. McNeese (Cayman Islands Classic)
November 25 — vs. George Washington (Cayman Islands Classic)
December 2 — vs. Morehead State
December 6 — vs. Bellarmine
December 13 — vs. Akron (in Henderson, Nevada at the Jack Jones Classic)
The Missouri Valley’s conference schedule likely won’t be released until closer to September.
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