DALLAS, Texas – The Dallas Christian College men's basketball team opens the 2021-22 campaign tonight with an exhibition at Southwestern Assemblies of God University (SAGU). Tip-off is at 7 p.m.
 
DCC played a pair of scrimmages in the past two weeks, heading to Dallas College-Eastfield and hosted Northlake College on Tuesday.
 
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The first half of the ledger for the Crusaders are away games and will be against opponents that are NCAA Division I, Division II, and NAIA. Most will be considered exhibitions for the Crusaders, but present a tough challenge that second-year head coach Dwight Coleman hopes prepares the team for opponents in the National Christian Collegiate Athletic Association (NCCAA) Southwest Division II later in the season.
 
Notable exhibition foes include: SAGU (October 28, November 12), Texas Wesleyan University (Nov. 3), UNT-Dallas (Nov. 16), Texas A&M University-Kingsville (Nov. 19), Angelo State University (Nov. 20), UT-Tyler (Nov. 21), Texas A&M University-Texarkana (Nov. 23), Tarleton State University (December 7), Northwestern State University (Dec. 11), and McNeese State University (Dec. 18).
 
DCC will play its first regional games away at Manhattan Christian College (Dec. 1) and Champion Christian College (Dec. 3). The first regular season home game will be Dec. 10 versus Ozark Christian College, which will be part of Hoops Hysteria.
 
The Crusaders conclude the 2021 portion of the schedule with the DCC Christmas Classic, which has Texas College, Texas A&M-Texarkana, and Paul Quinn College.
 
The calendar flips to 2022 with another three-team tournament for the DCC Men's Basketball New Year's Classic, which has College of the Ozarks, Baptist Bible College, and Ecclesia College. The dates for that are January 6-8.
 
The remainder of the schedule is all NCCAA foes, with the seventh straight home game against cross-town rival Arlington Baptist University (Jan. 18). After a three-game road trip up at Baptist Bible, Ozark Christian College, and College of the Ozarks on Jan. 21-23, DCC is home for Randall University on the first date of February. A quick home-and-home with Southwestern Adventist University is next on Feb. 5 away and Feb. 8 at home. DCC goes to Arlington Baptist University on Feb. 15 and then wraps up the home slate with Champion Christian College on Feb. 17. The regular season concludes at Randall University.
 
The NCCAA Southwest Regional will be at Overland Park, Kansas on Feb. 23-26. The Crusaders will then head to Joplin, Missouri, for the ACCA or Association of Christian College Athletes Tournament on March 2-5. DCC then hopes to be back in that same city a week later for the NCCAA National Tournament.
 
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