Bulldogs unveil 2024-25 basketball slate

Louisiana Tech men’s basketball head coach Talvin Hester announced Thursday the complete 2024-25 schedule, a slate that features 15 home games inside the Thomas Assembly Center.

Tech will have 13 non-conference games, starting with the season opener on Nov. 4 in the TAC versus LSUAlexandria. That will be followed up with the ‘Dogs first road test at UT Arlington on Nov. 9 and a neutral site contest against UMass in Long Island, New York, on Nov. 13 as part of the “ Icons of the Game” event.

After a Nov. 18 home game versus Mississippi College, the Bulldogs will travel to Estero, Florida, to take part in the Gulf Coast Showcase on Nov. 25-27. Tech returns to the event in which it was the inau-gural champion back in 2013.

The Bulldogs wrap up the month of November by hosting Southern on the 30th.

Tech has back- toback road contests at Memphis (Dec. 4) and UL- Lafayette ( Dec. 7) before hosting three consecutive games versus Georgia Southern (Dec. 13), Grand Canyon (Dec. 16), and Rust College (Dec. 21).

The 18-game Conference USA slate will pit the Bulldogs against every league team twice, both home and away, starting on Jan. 2 when Tech travels to El Paso, Texas, to battle UTEP.

The squad will close out the regular season at home versus the Miners on March 8 followed by the CUSA Basketball Championship on March 11-15 in Huntsville, Alabama, at Propst Arena.