Racers officially announce two more games

MBB: Murray State has now released every game on their non-conference schedule

JJ Traynor gets up a shot during practice in The Bahamas earlier this month. (Photo: Murray State Athletics)

While Murray State’s non-conference schedule hasn’t been a secret for more than two weeks, today the program officially released two more games on their docket.

The Racers will host Northern State in their lone home exhibition game on October 26th, and they’ll play Akron in Henderson, Nevada on December 13th.

The game with Akron will be part of the Jack Jones Classic. The Racers and Zips will lead off a quartet of games at Lee’s Family Forum in Henderson. Here are those games and the start times:

• Akron vs. Murray State (3:00pm CST)

• Santa Clara vs. Arizona State (5:30pm)

• UNLV vs. Tennessee State (8:00pm)

• UC San Diego vs. Tulane (10:30pm)

Tickets for the Jack Jones Classic will go on sale tomorrow, and you can purchase them here.

While the dates are set for the non-conference games, we are still waiting on official times for many of the games. Check back with GoRacers.com to get updated times when they are posted. Here is the non-conference schedule and the times we’ve learned so far. All listed times are in the Central Time Zone:

• October 18th — at Xavier (Exhibition), Time TBD

• October 26th — vs. Northern State (Exhibition), Time TBD

• November 3rd — vs. Omaha (in Sioux Falls, SD at The Field of 68 Opening Day Marathon), 12:30pm

• November 7th — vs. Mississippi Valley State, Time TBD

• November 11th — at SMU, Time TBD

• November 15th — vs. Nicholls, Time TBD

• November 18th — vs. Little Rock, Time TBD

• November 23rd — vs. Middle Tennessee (Cayman Islands Classic), 6:30pm

• November 24th — vs. McNeese (Cayman Islands Classic), 6:30pm

• November 25th — vs. George Washington (Cayman Islands Classic), 6:30pm

• December 2nd— vs. Morehead State, Time TBD

• December 6th — vs. Bellarmine, Time TBD

• December 13th — vs. Akron (in Henderson, Nevada at the Jack Jones Classic), 3:00pm

The Missouri Valley Conference schedule likely won’t be out until some point in September.