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The 2014-2015 MAC basketball season ended a little over a month ago, so why not start looking ahead to next season? We will be scouring schedule releases, newspaper articles and message boards to try and piece together each team's non-conference slate.
Keep in mind that until the schedule is officially released the dates/opponents may change. Most schedules aren't officially released until late July or early August, but we'll list out what we know (or what we think we know) so far:
Akron (FINAL)
November 14: Cleveland State (Coaches For Cancer at Kent State)
November 16: Hiram
November 18: at Arkansas (Preseason NIT)
November 22: at Villanova (Preseason NIT)
November 24: at Green Bay (Preseason NIT)
November 27: Charleston Southern (Preseason NIT)
December 2: Coppin State
December 4: at Marshall
December 12: Bethune Cookman
December 21: UC Santa Barbara (South Point Classic in Vegas)
December 23: Iona (South Point Classic in Vegas)
December 30: South Carolina State
January 2: Lipscomb
Ball State (FINAL)
November 13: at Bradley
November 16: Eastern Illinois
November 20: at Eastern Kentucky
November 21: Longwood (at Eastern Kentucky)
November 22: South Carolina State (at Eastern Kentucky)
November 25: IU-Kokomo
November 28: Valparaiso
December 1: IUPUI
December 5: New Orleans
December 12: Pepperdine
December 22: at Indiana State
December 29: Alabama A&M
December 31: Chicago State
Bowling Green (FINAL)
November 14: New Orleans
November 18: Cincinnati
November 21-23: Florida Gulf Coast MTE (features Florida Gulf Coast, Youngstown State, North Dakota)
November 29: Urbana
December 2: UMBC
December 5: Drake
December 8: at Southeast Missouri State
December 12: at Detroit
December 20: at Wright State
December 23: at Cleveland State
December 31: Texas-Rio Grande Valley
Buffalo
November 16: at Old Dominion (Hall of Fame Tip-Off)
November 18: at Saint Joseph's
November 21: North Carolina A&T
November 22: Niagara/Vermont
November 28: Canisius
December 2: St. Bonaventure
December 5: at Duke
December 8: at Iowa State
December 12: Binghamton
December 19: Montana State
December 22: at VCU
December 29: Delaware
Central Michigan
November 13: Alma
November 23: Weber State (Gulf Coast Classic)
November 24: Drake/Western Kentucky
November 25: Pepperdine/Milwaukee/Murray State/Duquesne
November 30: McNeese State
December 3: at Grand Canyon
December 18: at BYU
December 21: Howard
Eastern Michigan
November 13: Vermont
November 18: at Oakland
November 23: at Michigan State
December 1: at Nebraska-Omaha
December 5: at Penn State
December 12: at Louisville
December 21: at Coppin State
December 28: Detroit
January 2: North Florida
Kent State (FINAL)
November 14: Youngstown State (Coaches For Cancer at Kent State)
November 18: at Southern Illinois
November 21: Marist
November 24: Saint Francis (PA)
November 28: at Pittsburgh
December 5: at Cleveland State
December 7: at NJIT
December 10: Louisiana-Monroe (Las Vegas Classic)
December 12: Canisius (Las Vegas Classic)
December 22: SMU (Las Vegas Classic)
December 23: Colorado/Penn State (Las Vegas Classic)
December 30: at North Carolina A&T
January 2: Oberlin
Miami
November 13: at Xavier
November 20: Lipscomb (Miami Multi-team event)
November 21: Florida Atlantic (Miami Multi-team event)
November 22: Northeastern (Miami Multi-team event)
December 5: at IUPUI
December 13: Wright State
December 22: at Dayton
January 2: South Carolina State
Source: Blogging the Bracket
Northern Illinois
November 13: Cal State Northridge
November 14: South Dakota
November 15: Wright State
November 28: at Idaho
December 4: at Missouri
December 16: at Ohio State
December 29: at Illinois-Chicago
Date TBD: Chicago State
Ohio
November 14: Florida Gulf Coast
November 16: Tennessee State
November 20 - Tulsa (Paradise Jam)
November 21 - Indiana State/Norfolk State (Paradise Jam)
November 23 - DePaul/South Carolina/Florida State/Hofstra (Paradise Jam)
December 2: Marshall
December 30: UC-Riverside
Date TBD: Rio Grande
Source: The Athens Messenger
Toledo
November 18: at Youngstown State
November 25-28: Great Alaska Shootout (teams include Alaska-Anchorage, Drexel, Loyola-Chicago, Middle Tennessee, UNC Asheville, San Diego, San Jose State)
December 9: at Detroit
December 12: Oakland
December 19: Bethune-Cookman
December 21: North Carolina A&T
Date TBD: Cleveland State
Date TBD: at Green Bay
Source: Toledo Blade
Western Michigan
November 14: at DePaul
November 26: TBD (Music City Challenge vs. three of Stephen F. Austin, Liberty, Tulane and Mercer)
November 28: TBD (Music City Challenge)
November 29: TBD (Music City Challenge)
December 3: at James Madison
December 30:at Vanderbilt
As always, if you know of a game we are missing please feel free to mention it in the comments.