SAN ANTONIO – Second-year UTSA men’s basketball coach Austin Claunch made sure that the Roadrunners will have some big-time matchups on their December 2025 slate, announcing on Wednesday that UTSA will travel to face opposition from the SEC (Alabama), Big 12 (Colorado) and Big Ten (USC).
“We are really excited about being able to schedule these games,” Claunch said. “We are playing teams with NCAA tournament and championship pedigree. We believe in challenging ourselves to create the best opportunity to succeed in American play.”
Adding three more dates to the official 2025-26 non-conference schedule, UTSA will travel on Sunday, Dec. 7, to Tuscaloosa to square off with Claunch’s former team at Alabama in Coleman Coliseum. Claunch finished up as an assistant coach in 2024 for the Crimson Tide with a Final Four appearance in the national semifinal, ending the season with a 25-12 record. Last year’s Alabama team reached the Elite 8 as the No. 2 seed in the East Region, wrapping up at 28-9 and ranked sixth in the final Associated Press and USA TODAY Coaches Polls. It will be the first meeting between the two programs.
Facing off with the Buffaloes for the first time since 1995, the Roadrunners will next travel to Boulder, Colorado, and the CU Events Center on Saturday, Dec 13, to face Colorado. After finishing 26-11 and reaching the NCAA Round of 32 in 2023-24 during their final season in the Pac-12, the Buffaloes went 14-21 last season during their first season returning to the Big 12. The teams will meet for the fifth time in the series, with UTSA previously traveling to Boulder four times in the early 1990s.
Closing off the swing, the Roadrunners will travel to the Galen Center in Los Angeles for the second consecutive year, this time with a regular-season date against USC set for Wednesday, Dec. 17. Last October, the Roadrunners joined the Trojans in charity exhibition action. The Roadrunners trailed just 35-32 at the half in both Claunch and Eric Musselman’s coaching debuts at their current programs. However, the Trojans pulled away in the second half to an 84-63 final. The Trojans went on to a 17-18 finish for the program’s first Big Ten season, wrapping on a second-round appearance in the inaugural College Basketball Crown tournament in Las Vegas.
The Roadrunners and the Jacksonville Classic multi-team event announced last week that UTSA will also face Abilene Christian on Nov. 24, and Georgia Southern on Nov. 25, both in Jacksonville, Florida. The remaining games on the Roadrunners’ 2025-26 non-conference schedule will be announced at a later date, with the 2025-26 American Conference schedule announcement coming up on the horizon as well.
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