July 12, 2007

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Seven teams that reached the postseason last year, including Final Four participant UCLA, highlight the 2007-08 Yale men's basketball schedule. The Bulldogs play the Bruins on Nov. 23 for only the second time and will be making their first appearance in Pauley Pavilion. A little over a month later, Yale visits another of college basketball's historic venues, Allen Fieldhouse, for a game against Kansas. The Jayhawks lost to UCLA in the Elite Eight last year.

Other 2006-07 NCAA participants on the schedule include Stanford (Nov. 20), Holy Cross (Nov. 28) and defending Ivy League champion Penn (Feb. 16, Feb. 29). In addition, the Bulldogs play at UMass (Nov. 14) and host Vermont (Dec. 8), both of whom played in the NIT last year.

"Our 2007-08 schedule may be the most challenging that we've had in my tenure," said James Jones, The Joel E. Smilow, Class of 1954 Head Coach of Men's Basketball. "We have a great mix of high major programs along with a number of very strong mid-major programs."

The Bulldogs, who finished 14-13 last year and were second in the Ivy League, open the season at home on Nov. 10 by hosting Sacred Heart, the first of 13 games in the friendly confines of the John J. Lee Amphitheater. Ivy League play begins on Jan. 19 against Brown. Yale plays five of its first six Ivy games at home.

Here is a closer look at the 2007-08 Yale men's basketball schedule

Nov. 10 SACRED HEART
Bulldogs 3-0 all-time at home against Pioneers, who reached the championship game of the NEC Tournament last year

Nov. 14 at UMass
Bulldogs travel to Amherst for second straight year and third time since 2004-05

Nov. 20 at Stanford
Top three scorers return from team that lost to Louisville in first round of NCAA Tournament

Nov. 23 at UCLA
First meeting between the schools since Dec. 26, 1963, when Gail Goodrich scored 25 points to lead Bruins to 95-65 victory

Nov. 28 at Holy Cross
Concludes a stretch of four straight road games against teams that reached postseason last year. Crusaders lost to Southern Illinois in first round of NCAA Tournament

Dec. 1 WAGNER
Bulldogs and Seahawks meet for the third straight year

Dec. 3 at Fairfield
Stags won 10 of their final 14 games last year

Dec. 8 VERMONT
Catamounts, who won 25 games a year ago, lost to Kansas State 59-57 in the first round of the NIT

Dec. 11 BOSTON UNIVERSITY
Terriers traveled to Taiwan last May. Yale-BU meet for the first time since 1936

Dec. 29 at Kansas
Bulldogs make second appearance at Allen Fieldhouse in last three years. Jayhawks won 87-46 on Jan. 4, 2006

Jan. 2 PORTLAND
Pilots become the first West Coast Conference team to play in Lee Amphitheater

Jan. 5 at Hartford
Hawks edged Bulldogs 66-65 in overtime last year in New Haven

Jan. 8 at Longwood
Ross Morin's first career double-double lifted Yale past the Lancers in the first meeting between the schools last year in New Haven

Jan. 12 OBERLIN
Oberlin is coached by 2001 Yale graduate Isaiah Cavaco, who played and was an assistant coach for James Jones

Jan. 19 BROWN
Bulldogs open Ivy play against Bears for fourth time in last five years

Jan. 26 at Brown
Bears have eight freshmen on 2007-08 roster

Feb. 1 COLUMBIA
Lions return all five starters from team that won 16 games last year, the school's most since 1992-93

Feb. 2 CORNELL
Yale has won last six meetings in New Haven

Feb. 8 HARVARD
New Crimson coach Tommy Amaker, a former Duke star and Michigan head coach, gets his first look at Lee Amphitheater

Feb. 9 DARTMOUTH
Bulldogs rallied from 10-point deficit to defeat Big Green in New Haven last year

Feb. 15 at Princeton
Travis Pinick's layup with 10.8 seconds left helped the Bulldogs win at Jadwin Gym for the first time since 1993 last year

Feb. 16 at Penn
Quakers are the three-time defending Ivy League champions

Feb. 22 at Cornell
Big Red was picked to win the Ivy League and was slotted as a No. 15 seed in the Midwest Region in the initial 2007-08 Bracketology by ESPN's Joe Lunardi

Feb. 23 at Columbia
Bulldogs have won three straight at Levien Gym

Feb. 29 PENN
Bulldogs play on "Leap Day" for the first time since 1992

Mar. 1 PRINCETON
Yale swept season series from Tigers last year for the first time since 1985-86

Mar. 7 at Dartmouth
Yale has won five of last seven meetings in Hanover

Mar. 8 at Harvard
Bulldogs are 12-2 in their last 14 games with Crimson

Click here for the complete 2007-08 Schedule

Report filed by Tim Bennett, Yale Sports Publicity