The UNBC Timberwolves will tip off their 2015-16 season in the comfy confines of home court on Nov. 6 against the Thompson Rivers University Wolfpack.
The Wolfpack will return to the Northern Sport Centre on Nov. 7 to conclude the opening weekend of the Canadian Interuniversity Sport Canada West basketball season.
UNBC will play their Explorer Division rivals Thompson Rivers (Kamloops), UBC Okanagan (Kelowna), University of Fraser Valley (Abbotsford), Mount Royal (Calgary), and MacEwan (Edmonton) four times during the season, with two games at home and two on the road.
They wrap up the season Feb. 19 and 20 on the road against MacEwan.
UNBC's men's basketball squad will try to build on its 12-8 second-place finish in the Explorer Division in 2014-15, where it captured its first playoff berth since entering the CIS. The Timberwolves bowed out of the playoffs after they lost a best-two-out-three series to the UBC Thunderbirds.
This season UNBC's women's side will try to improve on its 2-18 record from a year ago.
This season marks the final year of the Prairie and Explorer Division format. Starting in 2016-17, each team will play four geographical, or historical opponents every year, with games against six of the remaining 12 opponents every other year.
For UNBC, their annual opponents will be UBC, Fraser Valley, Thompson Rivers and Trinity Western (Langley).
Over the four-year rotation in the schedule, each team will play every team in the conference at least twice, and will visit every gym in Canada West at least once.
