Sept. 8, 2011
2011-12 UIC Men's Basketball Schedule 
CHICAGO - UIC head men's basketball coach Howard Moore unveiled the Flames' 2011-12 schedule Thursday, a slate that features 14 regular-season home games, including five against in-state foes, and a complete, home-and-away Horizon League schedule.
The Flames will also play a total of nine games against opponents that garnered postseason berths last season, and take on four Mid-American Conference foes during non-conference play.
"I'm happy with the final make-up of our schedule; I think it accomplishes what we set out to accomplish," said Moore. "With a young team, we wanted to challenge our guys in some tough environments, prepare them for a grueling Horizon League schedule, and provide them an opportunity to gain some experience and confidence early in the season. I think we've set ourselves up to meet those goals."
The Horizon League announced its television schedule for the upcoming campaign on Tuesday - the Flames will play Butler (Jan. 19) on ESPN3, and be featured in the Horizon League Game of the Week on Feb. 11 at Loyola.
UIC will play a pair of home exhibition games, beginning on Wednesday, November 2, when the University of Chicago visits the UIC Pavilion. The Flames will then take on Lake Forest University in the exhibition finale on Tuesday, Nov. 8.
UIC will travel to Ypsilanti, Mich., to take on Eastern Michigan in the season opener, on Friday, Nov. 11. The Eagles, members of the Mid-American Conference, will be playing their first season under the tutelage of head coach Rob Murphy, a former assistant coach at Syracuse. EMU finished the 2010-11 season with a 9-22 record, including a 5-11 mark in MAC play.
The Flames will then return to the Windy City for a three-game homestand. Roosevelt University will visit the UIC Pavilion on Wednesday, Nov. 16, followed by Quincy University on Saturday, Nov. 19. Evansville, which won 16 games (9-9 MVC) and finished sixth in the Missouri Valley Conference last season, will wrap up UIC's homestand on Wednesday, November 23.
After the Thanksgiving holiday, UIC will travel to the Glass City to take on Toledo (Saturday, Nov. 26), who the Flames defeated twice last season. Five days later (Thursday, Dec. 1), the Flames will open Horizon League play on the road, taking on Green Bay at the Resch Center - UIC will then make the trip down I-43 to take on Milwaukee on Saturday, Dec. 3.
UIC will return home on Saturday, Dec. 10 to take on in-state rival Northern Illinois, marking the 37th all-time meeting between the Flames and Huskies. Three days later (Tuesday, Dec. 13), UIC will travel to Corvalis, Ore., to face Oregon State, for the third-straight season. The Flames defeated the Beavers at the UIC Pavilion during the 2009-10 campaign, but dropped a 74-54 decision on the road last December.
On Friday, December 16, the Flames will travel to Mount Pleasant, Mich., to take on Central Michigan. The Chippewas edged the Flames at the UIC Pavilion last November, 62-52.
UIC will play three-of its final four games of the 2011 calendar year at the Pavilion, beginning with a Dec. 19 non-conference contest against in-state foe Western Illinois - the Flames and Leathernecks will be going head-to-head for the first time since the 1997-98 campaign.
Four days later (Dec. 23), UIC will travel to Dayton, Ohio to take on the Dayton Flyers, which finished the 2010-11 campaign with a 22-14 record (7-9 A-10), advanced to the Atlantic-10 Tournament championship game and garnered an at-large berth into the NIT. Following the holiday break, the Flames will resume Horizon League play, hosting Detroit on Thursday, Dec. 29, and Wright State on Saturday, Dec. 31 at the UIC Pavilion.
UIC will hit the road for its first two games of 2012, making the Cleveland State (Jan. 5)-Youngstown State (Jan. 7) swing before embarking on a three-game homestand against crosstown rival Loyola (Jan. 14), 2011 national runner-up Butler (Jan. 19) and Valparaiso (Jan. 21).
The Flames will wrap up the month of January by traveling to Wright State (Jan. 25) and Detroit (Jan. 27), before completing the season series with Youngstown State (Feb/ 2) and Cleveland State (Feb. 5) at the Pavilion.
On Saturday, Feb. 11, UIC will kick-off a four-game road trip when the Flames travel north to Rogers Park to take on Loyola. UIC will then take on Valparaiso at the Athletics-Recreation Center on Valentine's Day (Feb. 14), before hitting the road on Saturday, Feb. 18 as part of the BracketBusters series. The road trip wraps up against Butler at Hinkle Fieldhouse on Tuesday, Feb. 21.
UIC will wrap up the Horizon League regular season with a pair of home games against Milwaukee (Feb. 23) and Green Bay (Feb. 25). The Horizon League Tournament begins with first-round games on the higher seeds' campus on Tuesday, Feb. 28. The quarterfinals-championship games (March 2-3, 6) will be hosted by the regular season champion and top seed.
