Unofficial Men's Basketball Schedule, 2014-2015

Although the full Harvard men’s basketball schedule has not yet been released, The Back Page took a look at a variety of sources to try and identify who the team will be playing in 2014-2015.

In trying to piece the schedule together, the first place I looked was the Harvard Crimson ticket website. From this we can see the list of schools Harvard will be playing at home, giving the following schedule:

Nov. 14 v. MIT

Nov. 20 v. Florida Atlantic

Nov. 25 v. Houston

Nov. 29 v. Massachusetts

Dec. 3 v. Northeastern

Dec. 8 v. Boston University

Jan. 24 v. Dartmouth

Feb. 13 v. Columbia

Feb. 14 v. Cornell

Feb. 20 v. Pennsylvania

Feb. 21 v. Princeton

Mar. 6 v. Yale

Mar. 7 v. Brown

In recent years, I would expect to add an early January road date at Connecticut to the list, but a glance at the Huskies’ schedule indicates the game will not happen. Early advertising indicates that the team will once again compete in the Coaches vs. Cancer tripleheader with a rematch of last year’s opening-day game against Holy Cross in TD Garden on Nov. 16.

To fill out the rest of the nonconference road schedule, I looked at the posted home schedules for Harvard’s non-conference opponents from last year. Those schedules indicated that Harvard will travel to Vermont on Dec. 6, to Boston College on Jan. 17, and to Bryant on Jan. 20. Scouring of other schedules indicates that the team’s marquee games will be at UVA (Dec. 21) and Arizona State (Dec. 28), with a road date at Grand Canyon on Dec. 30.

Next came a look at the rest of the Ivy League schedule. The Ancient Eight’s unique scheduling quirks -- back-to-back weekend games and set pair-scheduling (i.e. any opponent playing Cornell on Friday must play Columbia on Saturday, and vice versa) -- make this easy to do. Dartmouth, which plays the same teams every weekend as Harvard, has already posted its schedule. The schedule demonstrates that Harvard will be playing five of the first sixth Ivy League games on the road, with an Ivy League road schedule of:

Jan. 10 at Dartmouth

Jan. 30 at Princeton

Jan. 31 at Penn

Feb. 6 at Brown

Feb. 7 at Yale

Feb. 27 at Cornell

Feb. 28 at Columbia

Thus, the final best approximation we can have of the team’s full schedule looks like this:

Nov. 14 v. MIT

Nov. 16 v. Holy Cross

Nov. 20 v. Florida Atlantic

Nov. 25 v. Houston

Nov. 29 v. Massachusetts

Dec. 3 v. Northeastern

Dec. 6 at Vermont

Dec. 8 v. Boston University

Dec. 21 at UVA

Dec. 28 at Arizona State

Dec. 30 at Grand Canyon

Jan. 10 at Dartmouth

Jan. 17 at Boston College

Jan. 20 at Bryant

Jan. 24 v. Dartmouth

Jan. 30 at Princeton

Jan. 31 at Penn

Feb. 6 at Brown

Feb. 7 at Yale

Feb. 13 v. Columbia

Feb. 14 v. Cornell

Feb. 20 v. Pennsylvania

Feb. 21 v. Princeton

Feb. 27 at Cornell

Feb. 28 at Columbia

Mar. 6 v. Yale

Mar. 7 v. Brown