The official 2025-2026 Schedule Thread

[mkaufman1]

Solid opportunity against a Virginia Tech team that should be improved from last year. Unfortunately it’s just a buy game for us but it at least gets our schedule needle moving in a better direction.

Hopefully 1 other power 5 buy game is coming

 

[DRK331]

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This is GMU's first road game at Blacksburg since 1991

 

[Mason2006Patriot]

Teams in the state of Virginia we will play this year:

JMU
Virginia Tech
vcu

 

[NewPatriot]

Solid opportunity against a Virginia Tech team that should be improved from last year. Unfortunately it’s just a buy game for us but it at least gets our schedule needle moving in a better direction.

Hopefully 1 other power 5 buy game is coming

Talk to Ryan Odom at UVA.

 

[mkaufman1]

Talk to Ryan Odom at UVA.

Ok I’ll call him right now.

 

[tblack33]

Good for in state competition, but let’s not act like Tech is some basketball powerhouse. Finished 167 in NET last year and isn’t projecting to be much better this season. For reference, we finished 68 last season.

Rumor is this might be our marquee OOC matchup so that tells you what the rest of the games might look like. Not promising.

 

[EXpatriot13]

Finished 167 in NET last year and isn’t projecting to be much better this season.

Where are you seeing that projection? Just curious, thought I saw them projected in the low 80s for this upcoming season.

I like the game regardless, but yea not going to move the needle at the end of the day if there's nothing else coming schedule wise that's worth a damn. Bummer if rumors are true.

 

[phoenix-arizona]

Maybe GMU will play Radford while they're down there. 2 birds, 1 stone.

 

[GMUgemini]

Teams in the state of Virginia we will play this year:

JMU
Virginia Tech
vcu

You forgot Richmond

 

[Verdad]

Last year's NET rankings of current known/potential opponents for upcoming season (best case scenario opponents in bold):

Mte- 2 vs Fau (113)/Ohio (175)/Lmu (161)
Home MTE game - 1 vs BC (277), Jacksonville (194), Pacific (297) or Stony Brook (340)
@ VT (167)
Jmu at home (156)
Siena at Home (260)

They can walk me off the ledge if 1) we get the best possible opponents from the MTE - which we should as the highest ranked team, and 2) we avoid scheduling any more 200+ home opponents.

This, combined with multiple buy games vs top 50 teams and an improved A10 could result in a decent resume if we are on par with last years team and can avoid losses like vs CMU last year, and pull off at least one buy game win. This is BEST case scenario, not the most likely scenario.

Our 2025 OOC opponent NET rankings:
320
@ 29
340
214
@ 176
360
@ 156
192
151
@ 1
306
236

 

[Mason2006Patriot]

What is Virginia Tech's roster looking like? Are they good?

 

[gmujim92]

What is Virginia Tech's roster looking like? Are they good?

They should be better — regardless, as an ACC team it would be at worst a Q2 road win.

Honestly shocked they’re willing to play us even in Blacksburg.

 

[tblack33]

They should be better — regardless, as an ACC team it would be at worst a Q2 road win.

Honestly shocked they’re willing to play us even in Blacksburg.

They would have been Q3 last season.

 

[tblack33]

Where are you seeing that projection? Just curious, thought I saw them projected in the low 80s for this upcoming season.

I like the game regardless, but yea not going to move the needle at the end of the day if there's nothing else coming schedule wise that's worth a damn. Bummer if rumors are true.

To be fair that’s more of my own analysis than anything, I somewhat follow ACC hoops decently close and have been doing some reading on folks early projections for next season. Most blogs from folks who follow the league have them in the bottom quadrant again, not enough gained from the portal to move the needle for most folks

 

[Pablo]

What is our all time record against Virginia Tech?

The teams played a home and home during the 1991-92 season - https://gomason.com/documents/2024/10/15/2024-25_Mason_MBB_Prospectus_Media_Day.pdf

12/4 - at Virginia Tech L 64-76
2/10 - Virginia Tech W 54-53

 

[psyclone]

Good for in state competition, but let’s not act like Tech is some basketball powerhouse. Finished 167 in NET last year and isn’t projecting to be much better this season. For reference, we finished 68 last season.

Rumor is this might be our marquee OOC matchup so that tells you what the rest of the games might look like. Not promising.

The previous 4 years with Mike Young, VT was 58, 80,19, 52 in KenPom. KenPom has their 1997-2025 "program" rating as a 74 with a median of 83.

Mason's program numbers on the latter two figures are 111 and 131 respectively.

 

[psyclone]

To be fair that’s more of my own analysis than anything, I somewhat follow ACC hoops decently close and have been doing some reading on folks early projections for next season. Most blogs from folks who follow the league have them in the bottom quadrant again, not enough gained from the portal to move the needle for most folks

I don't know anything about this source, but google turned up this where they ranked VT at 70:

Virginia Tech

Lawal is a top-100 player in the model—one of the lowest-rated teams to have one. Individually he’s talented, but the team was 164th last year. Jumping to this level in one season is a leap, but Hansberry and Dorn (whose international stats also rate highly) give him help. Young has had consistently top-80 teams, so I expect them to bounce back. I think they invested more money into the roster this year rather than firing him. Another down year, though, and it might be on the table

2025-26 ACC Basketball Preview - The Resource Nexus

Our team ADJeff (Adjusted Efficiency) rating primarily measures the talent of returning players. It does not account for factors such as coaching, team fit, continuity, spacing, etc. While it serves as a crucial guidepost for evaluating experienced and proven talent— which is the primary...

theresourcenexus.com

 

[ProfessorCFK]

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This is GMU's first road game at Blacksburg since 1991

My office is half GMU grads and half Tech grads. I am excited.

 

[psyclone]

I don't know anything about this source, but google turned up this where they ranked VT at 70:

Virginia Tech

Lawal is a top-100 player in the model—one of the lowest-rated teams to have one. Individually he’s talented, but the team was 164th last year. Jumping to this level in one season is a leap, but Hansberry and Dorn (whose international stats also rate highly) give him help. Young has had consistently top-80 teams, so I expect them to bounce back. I think they invested more money into the roster this year rather than firing him. Another down year, though, and it might be on the table

2025-26 ACC Basketball Preview - The Resource Nexus

Our team ADJeff (Adjusted Efficiency) rating primarily measures the talent of returning players. It does not account for factors such as coaching, team fit, continuity, spacing, etc. While it serves as a crucial guidepost for evaluating experienced and proven talent— which is the primary...

theresourcenexus.com

Poking around that same site, they also rate mid-majors.

Mason rated at 92nd and 5th in the A10.

2025-26 Mid Major Basketball Preview - The Resource Nexus

Our team ADJeff (Adjusted Efficiency) rating primarily measures the talent of returning players. It does not account for factors such as coaching, team fit, continuity, spacing, etc. While it serves as a crucial guidepost for evaluating experienced and proven talent— which is the primary...

theresourcenexus.com

 

[thebiasedannouncer]

I have heard from multiple sources that George Mason will once again play UPenn this year, as the Quakers will visit with new coach Fran McCaffrey leading them