Forget about "Where's Waldo?"

This upcoming men's basketball season it will be "Where's UConn?"

The defending national champion Huskies will bounce around the country playing an ambitious schedule between American Athletic Conference and nonconference play.

In just the month of January, they'll play two games in Florida and go to Oklahoma to face Tulsa, play Stanford in California and visit Cincinnati.

It is the most the travel-heavy schedule in the program's history.

"A lot of traveling, great opponents," coach Kevin Ollie said, summing up his team schedule, earlier this summer. "We've got a tough schedule, which is fine. That's kind of how I like it. We're playing some top-notch teams."

The AAC released its complete schedule on Thursday for both the men and women. Some times and locations will be announced at a later date.

UConn opens conference play by hosting Temple on Dec. 31. The Huskies travel to South Florida for their AAC road opener on Jan. 6, three days after visiting Florida in a nationally-televised nonconference showdown between two teams that met in 2014 national semifinal.

"The conference as a whole is going to be great," Ollie said. "It's going to be exciting. We've got a lot of great players coming back."

UConn opens at home against Bryant on Friday, Nov. 14. The Huskies next play in the Puerto Rico Tip-Off, playing College of Charleston in the first game on Nov. 20.

The women, meanwhile, begin their national title defense with a trip to the West Coast, where they open at UC-Davis (Nov. 14) and visit rival Stanford three days later in the first of nine nationally-televised games. The Huskies also visit Notre Dame (Dec. 6) and host Duke (Dec. 29) and South Carolina (Feb. 9) as part of thier non-conference schedule.

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