ANNAPOLIS, Md. –– The Navy basketball teams announced their respective 2023-24 schedules today, a combined slate that includes at least 28 days of basketball in Alumni Hall.  

Season tickets are now available for purchase through the Navy Ticket Office by calling 1-800-US4-NAVY, clicking the TICKETS tab in the masthead of NavySports.com or clicking HERE.

Fans have options to purchase season tickets for just men's games, only women's games or for every home basketball game, with each guaranteeing purchasers their reserved seat for the full season.  That offering includes the Jan. 20 Army-Navy doubleheader but does not include the Nov. 10 men's Veterans Classic.

Season ticket packages, which include access to parking on The Yard on game day, are priced as follows:
** Combined Men's and Women's (does not include Veterans Classic) –– $200 / ticket for adults, $150 / ticket for youth and senior citizens
** Men's Games Only (does not include Veterans Classic) –– $100 / ticket for adults, $75 / ticket for youth and senior citizens
** Women's Games Only –– $100 / ticket for adults, $75 / ticket for youth and senior citizens
 
Tickets for the Veterans Classic remain on sale through the Navy Ticket Office by clicking HERE.  Lower level reserved seats are $40 / ticket and upper level general admission seats are $25 / ticket.  This year's Veterans Classic features College of Charleston vs. Duquesne and Temple vs. Navy.  

The College of Charleston compiled a 31-4 record during the 2022-23 season and shared the Colonial Athletic Association's regular season title with a 16-2 record.  The Cougars went on to win the CAA Tournament and advance to the NCAA Tournament.  Duquense was one of the most improved teams in the country last season.  The Dukes tied for third in the ranking –– with the College of Charleston –– as they went from posting a 6-24 record in 2021-22 to compiling a 20-13 mark in 2022-23.  Duquesne tied for sixth place in the Atlantic 10 Conference regular season this past year with a 10-8 record and ended the campaign by playing in the College Basketball Invitational.  Temple has posted records of 17-12 (2021-22) and 16-16 (2022-23) over the last two seasons.  Those overall marks include a combined 20-15 record in American Athletic Conference regular season play.

Single game tickets for the Navy basketball season will go on sale at a later date.  

The television schedule for both teams will be announced later this fall.

Women's Schedule
Anticipation is high for fourth-year head coach Tim Taylor and the Navy women's team with the 2023-24 season lying less than two months away.  An extremely young and energetic program with 13 underclassmen on its roster, the Midshipmen will be looking to move up in the Patriot League this season.

First up for Navy is an 11-game non-conference slate that begins at home on Nov. 8 versus Susquehanna.  After that opener, the Mids will head out on the road for a matchup against Penn State in State College, Pa. on Nov. 10.  The following Wednesday, Nov. 15 marks the first of four-straight home games as Navy will play host to Mount St. Mary's (Nov. 15), Binghamton (Nov. 21), Quinnipiac (Nov. 25) and Abilene Christian (Nov. 26) in quick succession at Alumni Hall.  The final two contests will be part of the 2023 Navy Classic.  The fourth team participating in the annual event is local foe, Towson. The seventh and final game of November is a road tilt at Wagner on Nov. 30.

The Mids' non-conference schedule wraps up in December with a quartet of games intertwined between final exams and the holiday break.  Navy alternates home and road matchups as it starts off with a showdown with William & Mary in Annapolis on Dec. 3 before heading north to Dartmouth on Dec. 8.  Taking 11 days off to focus on final exams, Navy's last non-conference home game is Dec. 19 against Goucher.  After reconvening following the holiday break, the Mids will round out non-league play on Dec. 30 at UAlbany.

Navy's run of Patriot League action kicks off three days later on Jan. 3 at Boston University.  The team will play its second league road game in row as it will head to Hamilton, N.Y., for a Jan. 6 matchup at Colgate.  The Mids' Patriot League home opener is scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 10 when they welcome the Holy Cross Crusaders to Annapolis.  That matchup is the first of six at home over an eight-game span ranging from Jan. 10 to Feb. 3. In the middle of that heavy run of home games is the first edition of the 2024 Army-Navy rivalry on Jan. 20.  The second half of that home-and-home series will go down in West Point on Feb. 10 with the 2024 Star on the line.  Navy's stretch of Patriot League play then will be slanted toward the road as five of the program's final eight games will be played away from Alumni Hall, including the league finale on March 6 at Bucknell. 

Each round of the Patriot League Tournament will once again be contested at the home of the higher-seeded team playing in each individual game.  The tournament will be held March 9, first round; March 11, quarterfinals; March 14, semifinals; and March 17, final.

Men's Schedule
The men's team ended last year with an 18-13 overall record and tied for second place in the Patriot League's regular season with a record of 11-7.  The Mids have compiled an overall record of 54-27 and a league record of 35-14 over the last three seasons.

This year's team opens the season with a Nov. 6 game at Campbell in what will be the first meeting of the teams since the 1984-85 season.  The Mids then face Temple in the first game between the teams in over 40 years as part of the Veterans Classic doubleheader on Nov. 10.  Navy next makes the program's first trip to California since the 2010-11 season for games Nov. 18 at UC San Diego and Nov. 20 at San Diego.   The Mids defeated UCSD last year in the inaugural meeting of the teams and this year will play the Toreros for just the second time (1991-92 season).

Navy then returns home for games Nov. 29 vs. VMI and Dec. 3 against Coppin State.  The Mids next play Dec. 5 at George Washington and Dec. 8 at Qunnipiac prior to the start of end-of-the-semester exams.  The game against the Colonials will be the first in the series to be played on the George Washington campus since 1983, and Navy will play Quinnipiac for the first time since 2011.  The Mids will close the non-league portion of their schedule with a Dec. 17 home game against Washington (Md.), a Dec. 21 game at Youngstown State –– winners of the 2023 Horizon League regular season title and NIT participant –– and a Dec. 30 home game against William & Mary.
 
Navy's Patriot League season begins with home games Jan. 3 against Boston U. and Jan. 6 against Colgate.  

The Army-Navy Star Game, part of the Star Series presented by USAA, will be played Feb. 10 at West Point.
 
The dates for the Patriot League Tournament are March 5, first round; March 7, quarterfinals; March 10, semifinals; and March 13, final.  Each game during the tournament will be played at the home of the higher-seeded team playing in the game.

2023-24 Navy Combined Home Basketball Regular Season Schedule
Nov. 8 – Women vs. Susquehanna
Nov. 11 – Men's Veterans Classic (College of Charleston vs. Duquesne / Temple vs. Navy)
Nov. 15 – Women vs. Mount St. Mary's
Nov. 21 – Women vs. Binghamton
Nov. 25 – Women's Navy Classic (Navy vs. Quinnipiac / Abilene Christian vs. Towson)
Nov. 26 – Women's Navy Classic (Navy vs. Abilene Christian / Towson vs. Quinnipiac)
Nov. 29 – Men vs. VMI
Dec. 3 – Women vs. William & Mary / Men vs. Coppin State
Dec. 17 – Men vs. Washington (Md.)
Dec. 19 – Women vs. Goucher
Dec. 30 – Men vs. William & Mary
Jan. 3 – Men vs. Boston U.
Jan. 6 – Men vs. Colgate
Jan. 10 – Women vs. Holy Cross
Jan. 13 – Women vs. Lafayette
Jan. 17 – Men vs. Lehigh
Jan. 20 – Women vs. Army / Men vs. Army
Jan. 24 – Women vs. Bucknell
Jan. 27 – Men vs. Loyola
Jan. 31 – Women vs. Lehigh
Feb. 3 – Women vs. Colgate
Feb. 7 – Men vs. Bucknell
Feb. 14 – Men vs. American
Feb. 17 – Women vs. Boston U.
Feb. 21 – Women vs. Loyola
Feb. 24 – Men vs. Holy Cross
Feb. 28 – Men vs. Lafayette
March 2 – Women vs. American