SAN ANTONIO – Wednesday night officially kicks off the 2025-26 campaign and the 45th season for the UTSA men’s basketball team (0-0), who host the College of Biblical Studies (1-3) for an Orange Out and the Welcome to the Birdcage game at the Convocation Center. Wednesday’s season-opener tips off at 7 p.m. and will be broadcast on ESPN+
Ticket Information
Single Game Tickets
Direct Link: College of Biblical Studies Tickets
Adults: $15
Juniors (ages 3-18): $13
Seniors (ages 65+): $13
Military (with ID): $13
Students: Free Admission with UTSA ID, download tickets at goUTSA.com/studentlogin.
2025-26 Men's Basketball Season Tickets:
Season tickets at the Convocation Center are available for lower level reserved ($165) seating and general admission upper level ($115) seating. To better support UTSA’s basketball student-athletes, the total price of men’s basketball reserved season tickets includes a $50 Roadrunner Athletic Fund (RAF) per-seat contribution. Per-seat contributions count towards RAF membership levels and benefits and increase each member's RAF Loyalty Points.
In addition, RAF members can purchase courtside seating for $550, and a combined men’s and women’s basketball season ticket is available for $210 by contacting the UTSA Ticket Office at 210-458-8872.
Direct Link: https://goutsa.com/mbbseasontix
Reserved (lower level): $165
General Admission (200 level): $115
Courtside Seating for Roadrunner Athletic Fund members: $550
Single Game Adult (on-sale soon): $15
Single Game Military/Youth (ages 3-18)/Senior (ages 65+): $13
Students: Free Admission with UTSA ID
Orange Out / Welcome to the Birdcage
Wednesday will be the official debut of the basketball version of The Birdcage Student Section and students will be able to receive Birdcage t-shirts free with their student ID. The opener has been dubbed an Orange Out and fans are encouraged to cheer on the Roadrunners in orange attire. The first 500 fans at the Convo will also receive free Bam Bams to make the home court even more Rowdy.
On the Air and on the Web
Wednesday’s 7 p.m. season-opening matchup with the Ambassadors at the Convocation Center will be streamed on ESPN+, with Jordy Fee-Platt (play-by-play), UTSA, San Antonio Hall-of-Famer Devin Brown (analyst) and former UTSA women’s basketball star Carlie Heineman (reporter) on the call.
The radio broadcast will appear on Sports Radio AM 760 The Ticket with Jay Howard (play-by-play) and former coach Tim Carter (analyst) covering the action live from the Convo. The broadcast will feature a 30-minute pregame and 15-minute postgame show – available online at Ticket760.com or via the free iHeartRadio app.
UTSA Athletics will also provide Live Stats.
About the UTSA Roadrunners
Opening up the second year under head coach Austin Claunch, Roadrunner fans will be getting familiar with some new faces, as UTSA’s offseason saw 11 new players enter the program. Returning from last season are graduate student center Mo Njie, sophomore forward/guard Baboucarr Njie, redshirt senior guard LJ Brown and redshirt sophomore forward Jackson Fazande. Transfers who joined the Roadrunners in the offseason are guard Vasean Allette from TCU who was named to the American’s Preseason All-Conference Second Team, forward/guard Macaleab Rich from Kansas State, former Wagner High star guard Austin Nunez from Arizona State, guard Jamir Simpson from Southern Utah, forward Daniel Akitoby from Morgan State and Stanley Borden from Duke. A familiar face to the program, 2024-25 graduate assistant Pierce Spencer learned his playing clock wasn’t up and will join the Roadrunners for his final playing season – adding on to his career as a standout guard for Claunch at Nicholls. The Roadrunners have three outstanding freshmen joining the squad in Dorian Hayes (Houston), Kaidon Rayfield (Oklahoma City) and Mathéo Coffi (Strasbourg, France).
It's easy to expect the Roadrunners will play fast after being one of the most uptempo NCAA teams last year and throughout Claunch’s coaching career. The 2024-25 Roadrunners ranked ninth nationally in fast break scoring at 15.1 ppg. Look for UTSA to lean more on defensive pressure as an offseason focus, though the Roadrunners already ranked ninth nationally in steals (9.5) and 14th (15.2) in turnovers forced. UTSA will also let it fly from range, topping the American and finishing 25th nationally a year ago 9.9 three-pointers per game. The Roadrunners were also deadly at the line with an NCAA seventh-best 79.2 free throw percentage.
About the CBS Ambassadors
Playing under University of Houston legend Michael Young, coaching his first season at the Collegiate level. An NCCAA team, the Ambassadors are already six games deep, rounding out three consecutive dates with NCAA Division I teams – having suffered exhibition losses against Prairie View A&M (95-48) on Monday and Rice (109-38) on Tuesday. At 1-3 against NAIA and NCCAA teams, CBS has been led by sophomore point guard Omani Ozenne at 17.7 ppg and freshman guard Trayvon Martinez at 12.3 ppg. Leading CBS on the boards in those games with a near-double-double average, freshman forward Alvin Kay has grabbed 11.3 rpg with 9.5 ppg scoring. Martinez put up 16 points against Rice on 7-of-17 shooting on Tuesday night in Houston.
These teams are meeting for the first time and this is the third season of basketball for the Ambassadors.
Up Next
The Roadrunners will go from the opener to a big non-conference test, as SIU Edwardsville comes to the Convocation Center for a 12:30 p.m. day game on Friday, Nov. 7. The Cougars went 21-12 last season, winning the Ohio Valley Conference and reaching the program’s first NCAA Tournament appearance against No. 1 Houston.
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