The WVU men’s basketball schedule for the upcoming season was released in full on Wednesday afternoon. It is below this, and below that I’ll share some thoughts.

Format: Date/opponent/time/broadcast

Friday, Nov. 1 — vs. Duquesne (exhibition), 7 p.m., AT&T SportsNet

Friday, Nov. 8 — vs. Akron, 7 p.m., AT&T SportsNet

Friday, Nov. 15 — at Pitt, TBD, TBD

Monday, Nov. 18 — vs. Northern Colorado, 7 p.m., AT&T SportsNet %

Friday, Nov. 22 — vs. Boston University, 7 p.m., Nexstar %

Tuesday, Nov. 26 — vs. Northern Iowa, 8:30 p.m., CBS Sports Network &

Wednesday, Nov. 27 — vs. South Carolina or Wichita State, 6/8:30 p.m., CBS Sports Network &

Sunday, Dec. 1 — vs. Rhode Island, 2 p.m., AT&T SportsNet

Saturday, Dec. 7 — at St. John’s, Noon, FS1 ^

Thursday, Dec. 12 — vs. Austin Peay, 7 p.m., Nexstar

Saturday, Dec. 14 — vs. Nicholls, 2 p.m., AT&T SportsNet

Saturday, Dec. 21 — vs. Youngstown State, TBD, TBD $

Sunday, Dec. 29 — vs. Ohio State, Noon, FS1 !

Saturday, Jan. 4 — at Kansas, 4/8 p.m., ESPN+*

Monday, Jan. 6 — at Oklahoma State, 9 p.m., ESPN2*

Saturday, Jan. 11 — vs. Texas Tech, 6 p.m., ESPN/2/U*

Tuesday, Jan. 14 — vs. TCU, 9 p.m., ESPNU*

Saturday, Jan. 18 — at Kansas State, 2 p.m., ESPNU*

Monday, Jan. 20 — vs. Texas, 7 p.m., ESPNU*

Saturday, Jan. 25 — vs. Missouri, Noon, ESPN/2/U#

Wednesday, Jan. 29 — at Texas Tech, TBD, ESPN+*

Saturday, Feb. 1 — vs. Kansas State, 2 p.m., ESPN/2/U*

Wednesday, Feb. 5 — vs. Iowa State, 7 p.m., ESPN2/U*

Saturday, Feb. 8 — at Oklahoma, 2 p.m., ESPNU*

Wednesday, Feb. 12 — vs. Kansas, 7 p.m., ESPN+*

Saturday, Feb. 15 — at Baylor, 4 p.m., ESPN+*

Tuesday, Feb. 18 — vs. Oklahoma State, 7 p.m., ESPN/2/U*

Saturday, Feb. 22 — at TCU, 2 p.m., ESPN/2/U*

Monday, Feb. 24 — at Texas, 7 p.m., ESPNU*

Saturday, Feb. 29 — vs. Oklahoma, 4 p.m., ESPN2/U*

Tuesday, Mar. 3 — at Iowa State, 9 p.m., ESPN2/U*

Saturday, Mar. 7 — vs. Baylor, 1 p.m., ESPN+*

March 11-14 — Big 12 tournament in Kansas City

% Cancun Challenge, Morgantown, W.Va.
& Cancun Challenge, Riviera Maya, Mexico
^ Big 12/BIG EAST Scheduling Alliance at Madison Square Garden
$ Covelli Centre, Youngstown, Ohio
! Cleveland Classic at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse, Cleveland, Ohio
# Big 12/SEC Challenge
* Big 12 Conference Game

Not really much to it until I really get the chance to dig in here, but a few things did stick out:

• Opening Big 12 play at Kansas on the ESPN+ streaming service seems like a cruel joke to Mountaineer fans
• Opening Big 12 play with back-to-back road games seems like a cruel joke to Bob Huggins. I know he prefers the Saturday/Monday split on these trips, but opening conference play AT KANSAS on one seems less than ideal to me
• I reckon Huggins has some thoughts on the consecutive road games at TCU and Texas late in the season. Again, Huggins likes the Saturday/Monday split but the timing of WVU’s two sets back-to-back road games seems not great imo.
• No time or broadcast plans announced for the game at Pitt. *eyes emoji goes here*