HAMPTON, VA - The Big South Conference released the 2020-21 Men's Basketball modified conference schedule on Wednesday. The schedule will feature back to back games in order to limit reoccurring travel. Instead of home and away games, teams will play back to back against the same team either at their home venue or at the other team's venue.

The Hampton Pirates will begin conference play on the road playing Charleston Southern Dec. 21-22 before having their home conference opener against Gardner-Webb Dec. 30-31.

Topping off the New Year the Pirates will be on the road facing Radford Jan. 4-5, then back at home to face UNC Asheville on Jan. 9-10. The next games will be on the road at USC Upstate on the 14^th and 15^th before returning home to play Campbell on Jan. 19-20. To close out the month the men will play at Winthrop the 24^th and 25^th and then back at home against High Point on the 29^th and 30^th.

Wrapping up the regular season Hampton will play at Longwood February 4-5 and then close out the conference season at home against Presbyterian on the February 11-12.  

After a bye week, the week of February 25 will be used for a make-up week if any games are postponed due COVID-19.

The 2021 Hercules Tires Big South Men's Basketball Championship will be a home-site/earned seed format that returned in 2017.  The current schedule features first round games at the No. 6, 7 and 8 seeds on Tuesday, March 2.  The quarterfinals and semifinals will be played at the No. 1 seed on Thursday-Friday, March 4-5, while the highest remaining seed will host the championship game on Sunday, March 7.   

Non-conference games and all game times will be announced at a later date.  All conference games will be streamed on ESPN+ as there will be no fans at home games this season. 

For more information on Hampton University men's basketball, please contact the Office of Sports Information at 757-727-5757 or visit the official Pirates website at www.hamptonpirates.com.