FHSU Athletics
Fort Hays State women’s and men’s basketball will each play over half of their schedules at home during the 2015-16 season. The FHSU women will play 15 of their 28 games at home this year, while the men will play 17 of their 28 contests inside Gross Memorial Coliseum.
2015-16 FHSU Men’s Basketball Schedule
2015-16 FHSU Women’s Basketball Schedule
The FHSU men will not play a regular season game outside of Gross Memorial Coliseum until December 17 as they will be at home throughout the duration of the Fall Semester. The Tigers play their first nine games at home, starting with a pair of games against Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) opponents Southwest Minnesota State and Sioux Falls on November 14-15. FHSU is coming off a 16-13 record in 2014-15, though it had great success at home once again with a 13-3 mark at the coliseum last year.
Coming off a 30-4 overall record in 2014-15 (the program’s most successful season in its NCAA Division II history), the FHSU women open the year with a pair of games against NSIC opponents in St. Joseph, Mo. Following those games, they return to Hays to start a seven-game home stand to parallel the men’s schedule through the end of the Fall Semester. The home opener for the women will be against another NSIC opponent, St. Cloud State, on November 20, followed by a contest with Regis University on November 21.
Conference play for both squads opens with in-state rivals Washburn and Emporia State. The Ichabods come to Hays on December 2 to kick off the 22-game conference schedule, then the Hornets come to town three days later on December 5. FHSU meets WU and ESU just once during the regular season in a schedule where the Tigers play nine conference schools twice and four just once. Washburn and Emporia State join Missouri Western and Northwest Missouri State as the schools FHSU will see just once. Games against Nebraska-Kearney on December 12 complete a run of three straight home dates against rival schools to open conference play at the coliseum.
The Tigers ring in a new year with a pair of home games against Pittsburg State and Missouri Southern on January 2 and 4. Later in the month, FHSU hosts Northeastern State on the 14th and Central Oklahoma on the 16th.
The Tigers play four games in February at home. Central Missouri comes to Hays on the 4th and Southwest Baptist follows on the 6th. The Tigers host Lindenwood on the 18th and close out the home schedule on the 20th against Lincoln.
The Tiger men take on in-state Division I schools Kansas State and Kansas in exhibition play on the road, November 6 and 10. Game times have not been released for the contests in Manhattan and Lawrence, but see the Tigers challenge a pair of Big 12 teams in a span of five days in early November before getting the regular season underway in Hays.
There is a total of 19 home dates between the women’s and men’s schedules, with 13 of the dates being doubleheaders.