BYU Cougars head coach Mark Pope yells out to his gamers as BYU and Washington State play within the NIT quarterfinals on the Marriott Heart in Provo on Wednesday, March 23, 2022. Scott G Winterton, Deseret Information
The Lindenwood Lions out of Saint Charles, Missouri, will play their first-ever season of males’s basketball on the Division I stage within the 2022-23 marketing campaign, and two groups from Utah are on their schedule.
The Lions launched their season schedule on Thursday, and they'll face the BYU Cougars and Utah Tech Trailblazers in back-to-back video games in Utah simply earlier than Christmas Day.
Lindenwood will first face BYU on Dec. 20 in Provo, after which face Utah Tech on Dec. 22 in St. George.
The Lions may have kinship with Utah Tech, because the Trailblazers are at present within the technique of turning into full Division I members.
Lindenwood has been competing in males’s basketball within the Nice Lakes Valley Convention on the Division II stage and can now compete within the Ohio Valley Convention in Division I.
Along with BYU and Utah Tech, the Lions’ nonconference schedule has opponents resembling Dayton, Missouri and Illinois on it.