The non-conference portion of the Knoxville Boys Basketball Squad’s schedule will present several challenges. The Panthers will take on Oskaloosa, Grinnell, and Newton out of the Little Hawkeye Conference and Bondurant-Farrar out of the Raccoon River Conference. Coach Troy Pearson tells KNIA/KRLS Sports the games in the South Central Conference and other contests will hopefully give his team confidence when the Panthers face those opponents.

Pearson “You look down the schedule and Bondurant is I think ranked second, and Newton is a top ten team, and if we can build some confidence with our early games then we can go into those games with some confidence.”

The first LHC opponent will be January 9th when Pella Christian comes to Knoxville for a contest. The Newton game is at Wells Fargo Arena on February 4th.