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  • 🐾 Panther’s Toothsayer: The Non-Conference Reckoning

    High Point Basketball at the Turn toward Big South Play 📍 Where We Stand High Point enters Big South play at 11–3, ranked top-100 nationally across most advanced models, with one of the most efficient offenses in the country and a roster that—on paper and often on the floor—looks capable of running away with the…

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  • 🐾 Panther’s Toothsayer: UNC Asheville Bulldogs

    Big South OpenerWed, Dec. 31 • Kimmel Arena • Asheville, NC 📍 Context & Stakes: The One Place That Still Bites Since the Huss and now Clayman era began, High Point Panthers have largely owned the Big South. But there is a consistent exception. The UNC Asheville Bulldogs. HPU is 2–2 against Asheville over the…

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  • 🐾 Panther’s Toothsayer: Pfeiffer Falcons

    Sun, Dec. 28 • Qubein Center • High Point, NC 📍 Context & Stakes: Closing the Book on 2025 This is the final chapter of High Point’s non-conference schedule—and the final game of 2025. It’s not a measuring-stick matchup in the traditional sense, but it is a tone-setter. High Point enters at 11–3, riding dominant…

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  • 🐾 Panther’s Toothsayer: La Salle Explorers

    Fri, Dec 19 • Qubein Center • High Point, NC 📍 Context & Stakes: Familiar Faces, Different Jerseys High Point returns home after a record-setting victory over Mary Baldwin, sitting at 9–3—a record that, oddly, still feels a bit hollow. For a roster this talented, losses to Southern Illinois and App State linger. Those were…

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  • 🐾 Panther’s Toothsayer: Southern Illinois Salukis

    Wed, Dec 3 • Qubein Center • High Point, NC 📍 Series & Setting High Point continues its homestand now sitting at 7–1 with elite national metrics, especially on the offensive side. Many of HPU’s recent opponents have wanted to play in a similar mold: fast, furious, and with an emphasis on the three. This…

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  • 🐾 Panther’s Toothsayer: Western Carolina Catamounts

    Sat, Nov 29 • Qubein Center • High Point, NC 📍 Series & SettingHigh Point returns home at 6–1, fresh off a Boardwalk Battle championship where the Panthers were tested by a couple quality mid-majors but took home the title by playing some of their cleanest, most balanced basketball of the season. Awaiting them is…

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  • 🐾 Panther’s Toothsayer: Incarnate Word Cardinals

    Sat, Nov 22 • Boardwalk Battle — Daytona Beach, FL 📍 Series & Setting Another first-time matchup for High Point, this time against Incarnate Word (3–2) out of the Southland — and with a championship on the line. The Panthers enter the Boardwalk Battle finale at 5–1 with a chance to stabilize their non-conference momentum…

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  • 🐾 🏁 Panther’s Toothsayer: UIC Flames

    Thu, Nov 20 • Boardwalk Battle (Daytona Beach, FL) • 2:30 PM 📍🏝️ Series & Setting High Point heads to Daytona for a neutral-site matchup against UIC — the first meeting between the programs. The backdrop feels fitting: two teams that both prefer to push pace meeting in the shadow of Daytona’s speedway, where quick…

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  • 🐾 Panther’s Toothsayer: Canisius Golden Griffins

    Mon, Nov 17 • Qubein Center 📍 Series & Setting High Point and Canisius have met only once, a 78–70 Panther win in 2023 — and they enter Monday’s matchup carrying wildly different trajectories.  Canisius, the only Griffins in the D1 ranks, arrives from Buffalo at 2–2, picked last in the MAAC (13th of 13),…

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  • 🐾 Panther’s Toothsayer: UAB Blazers

    Fri, Nov 14 • Bartow Arena (Birmingham, AL) 📍 Series & Setting Second-ever meeting; High Point won the first last season at the Qubein Center, 68–65. This time it’s HPU’s first true road test. Expect juice in the building: Andy Kennedy has never won fewer than 22 games at UAB, and Blazer fans want payback.…

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