Mercer basketball tips off the season against FVSU. Here’s the Bears’ 2021-22 schedule
Mercer men’s basketball will begin its 2021 season on Wednesday against Fort Valley State University at Hawkins Arena. The Wildcats are the first of four in-state opponents featured on this season’s schedule including home games against Georgia State and Georgia Southern as well as a road game against Kennesaw State.
The Bears will renew their former Atlantic Sun Conference rivalry with a game against Florida Gulf Coast University on the road on Dec. 19.
Mercer will also participate in the Cancun Challenge from Nov. 20-24 in an in-season tournament which features matchups against St. Louis, Bucknell and a third matchup against either MTSU or Rider.
The team will begin conference play on the road against the Citadel on Dec. 29 before returning home to face Chattanooga on Jan. 1 in its first home game against a conference opponent.
Mercer is coming off of an 18-11 record but reached the SoCon Championship game against UNCG. The Bears lost 69-61 to the Spartans with a spot in the NCAA tournament on the line. Mercer had wins of Georgia Tech, Georgia Southern and Georgia State last season in addition to securing a spot in the title game by knocking off No. 10 seed Samford, No. 2 seed Wofford and No. 6 seed VMI.
The Bears will look to once again reach the conference title game and get back into the NCAA tournament for the first time since the 2013-2014 season when the Bears beat Duke in the opening round matchup.
Mercer men’s basketball 2021-22 schedule
- Nov. 3 vs FVSU
- Nov. 9 at Arkansas
- Nov. 13 at Winthrop
- Nov. 16 vs Life University
- Nov. 20 at Saint Louis (Cancun Challenge)
- Nov. 23 vs Bucknell (Cancun Challenge)
- Nov. 24 vs MTSU or Rider(Cancun Challenge)
- Nov. 27 Milligan University
- Dec. 1 at Kennesaw State
- Dec. 4 vs Georgia State
- Dec. 6 at Coastal Carolina
- Dec. 11 vs Georgia Southern
- Dec. 19 at Florida Gulf Coast University
- Dec. 22 vs Troy
- Dec. 29 at The Citadel
- Jan. 1 vs Chattanooga
- Jan. 5 vs Samford
- Jan. 8 at Furman
- Jan. 13 vs VMI
- Jan. 15 vs UNCG
- Jan.19 at ETSU
- Jan. 22 vs Western Carolina
- Jan. 26 at Samford
- Jan. 29 vs Furman
- Jan. 31 vs Wofford
- Feb. 5 at Chattanooga
- Feb. 10 at VMI
- Feb. 13 at UNCG
- Feb. 16 vs ETSU
- Feb. 19 at Western Carolina
- Feb. 23.vs The Citadel
- Feb. 26 at Wofford
This story was originally published November 3, 2021 at 2:14 PM.