Arizona has added games against Utah Tech, NAU and Denver for November as it continues to fill out a 2025-26 schedule that will include its own multi-team event at McKale Center during Thanksgiving week.
The Wildcats' schedule also is likely to feature one extra game on top of its school-imposed 18-appearance home minimum. Arizona is expected to play nine home Big 12 games, eight nonconference games and two exhibition games at McKale for a total of 19 home appearances.
An NCAA rule change next season will allow exhibition games to be scheduled against any four-year school, meaning the Wildcats won't have to play a closed scrimmage to face Division I competition before the season.
Utah Tech, which lost to Arizona 104-77 at McKale during the 2022-23 season, is scheduled to face the Wildcats on Nov. 7, four days after Arizona will open the season against defending national champion Florida in Las Vegas.
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NAU is scheduled to face ÃÛÌÒÓ°ÏñAV on Nov. 11, resuming a series that was originally agreed to be played annually from 2021-22 through 2030-31. UA has not faced NAU the past three seasons largely because the son of UA coach Tommy Lloyd, Liam, played for the Lumberjacks in 2022-23 and 2023-24 and played for the Wildcats in 2024-25.
NAU will be returning to McKale Center next season after a three-year absence due in part to the presence of Liam Lloyd, right, who played for the Lumberjacks in 2022-23 and 2023-24 before joining his father’s team at Arizona in 2024-25.
Denver, meanwhile, will appear at McKale on Nov. 24 as part of a yet-to-be announced multi-team event that Arizona will host at McKale. Other games have not yet been set.
Here’s how Arizona’s 2025-26 nonconference schedule looks as of now:
– TBA exhibition game
– TBA exhibition game
– Nov. 3 vs. Florida (at Las Vegas)
– Nov. 7 Utah Tech
– Nov. 11 NAU
– Nov. 14 vs. UCLA (at Los Angeles’ Intuit Dome)
– Nov. 19 at UConn
– Nov. 24 Denver (Arizona MTE)
– TBA home game (Arizona MTE)
– Dec. 6 Auburn
– Dec. 13 vs. Alabama (at Birmingham)
– TBA game at Phoenix
– TBA home game
– TBA home game
– TBA home game
NOTE: The Big 12 Conference schedule, including nine home games and nine away games, has yet to be announced.
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