The new look USF men's basketball team under first year head coach Kyle Smith will tip-off the 2016-17 season against Illinois-Chicago on Nov. 11 at the renovated War Memorial at the Sobrato Center.
San Francisco will host nine of its conference games at the Hilltop and will also play home to five non-conference contests.
In the early parts of the schedule, USF will face 10 schools from seven different conferences. Three teams from the Big Sky (Eastern Washington, Sacramento State and Portland State), two from the Southland Conference (Lamar and Abilene Christian), and one apiece from the Southwestern Athletic Conference (Alcorn State), the Horizon League (Illinois-Chicago), Big West Conference (UC Santa Barbara), Sun Belt Conference (Troy) and the Pac-12 (Utah).