The Big Sky Conference released league schedules for the 2026-27 campaign and Weber State gets Utah Tech and Southern Utah right out of the gate in early December.

With those schools joining the Big Sky this year, the conference basketball schedule increases to 20 games. To accomplish that without adding too many weeks where teams play more than two games, the Big Sky added a conference series to the first weekend of December.

Weber State men’s basketball hits the road to St. George first to play Utah Tech on Thursday, Dec. 3, then goes north up the road to Cedar City to play SUU on Saturday, Dec. 5.

The WSU women, in the usual same-opponent-opposite-city format, host Utah Tech and SUU on the same weekend to start Big Sky play.

The Weber men follow with three straight at home, starting with Northern Arizona on Dec. 31, then opening the new year with Montana and Montana State in Ogden on Jan. 7 and 9.

That setup means while the WSU men aren’t necessarily playing a nonstop string of home games, they’ll only leave the state of Utah a couple times before the new year, at least with how their nonconference schedule shapes up so far.

The Wildcat men open the season at Oregon State but otherwise only leave Utah for a Nov. 28 trip to Cal State Fullerton. WSU has home games currently set against Utah Valley, Cal State Northridge and Lincoln University in November, and a Dec. 9 home game against Washington State. Road games take WSU to Utah, Utah State, BYU, Utah Tech and SUU.

Kaleb Canales and company can add up to three more games to their nonconference schedule.

For the WSU women, those Dec. 3-5 home games with UTU and SUU give those Wildcats a close-to-home schedule in December as well; those are followed by road games at Utah State and BYU before a home game against La Sierra caps non-league play on Dec. 19.

Weber State has shifted the same-opponent-opposite-city setup for games against Idaho State. The rivals will now play same-day men’s and women’s doubleheaders: on Jan. 23 at Idaho State, and Feb. 27 in Ogden.

The WSU women (Denver) and men (Utah Valley) are also slated for a doubleheader Nov. 7 at the Dee Events Center.

In the conference schedule, WSU’s “off days” — when the team doesn’t play on a usual Thursday or Saturday — come mostly in the middle. After taking off Saturday, Jan. 2, WSU doesn’t play Thursday, Jan. 21, or on Thursday, Feb. 4. It also appears the whole conference takes off Thursday, Feb. 25, ahead of the final two games on Saturday, Feb. 27 and Monday, March 1.

Before the Jan. 21 off day, WSU plays three games in five days from Jan. 14-18. The men go from Portland State, to Northern Colorado, then home against Idaho in that tough stretch.

After Jan. 21, both Wildcat squads play four games in eight days to end January.

One more stretch of three games in five days comes Feb. 18-22; the WSU women are at home but the Weber men are on the road for all three, traveling to Montana State, Montana and Idaho.

Basketball unofficially starts with the men hosting a pair of home exhibitions against regional D2 opponents in Westminster (Oct. 24) and Colorado Mesa (Oct. 28). The Wildcat men travel to Oregon State on Nov. 2 to open the season while the women host Westminster on Nov. 3.

WSU has officially announced the women’s schedule while the men’s schedule is based off Standard-Examiner reporting.