Visits from Wake Forest and Xavier highlight the University of Richmond men's basketball schedule, released yesterday.

The Spiders are also likely to face Syracuse in the 16-team College Basketball Experience, a tournament whose field has not been finalized. The tourney will provide UR with four games.

A mid-January trip to Virginia Tech gives UR two ACC opponents. Game times will be determined later.

There's a new scheduling formula for A-10 games. Each of the 14 teams plays all others once for 13 conference dates. The A-10 arranged its membership in three groups based on teams' projected strength, and each team will twice play one opponent from each of the three groups to complete the 16-game conference obligation. Scheduled rematches are based on geography, rivalries, and other factors.

Richmond will meet George Washington, Charlotte and Saint Louis twice each.

Richmond went 16-15 last season, its first winning season since 2003-04, and finished its Atlantic 10 Conference schedule 9-7. The Spiders return all but three members of that team's playing rotation: departed seniors Gaston Moliva and Oumar Sylla, and Dan Geriot, a two-year starter who will miss 2008-09 because of a knee injury suffered in July.

-- John O'Connor

The schedule:

Nov. 18, 24, 25, 26, CBE Classic (opponents and sites to be determined); 30, Coppin State.

Dec. 3, at Old Dominion; 6, Delaware State; 13, Virginia Commonwealth; 19, Wake Forest; 22, Bucknell, 28, at UNC Wilmington; 31, at VMI.

Jan. 3, Rice; 10, at George Washington; 14, at Virginia Tech; 17, St. Bonaventure; 21, Rhode Island; 25, at Saint Louis; 28, Saint Joseph's; 31, at Temple

Feb. 4, at Massachusetts; 8, Saint Louis; 11, Duquesne; 14, at Dayton; 18, at La Salle; 21, Charlotte; 25, at Fordham; 28, George Washington

March 4, at Charlotte; 7, Xavier; 11-14, Atlantic 10 Conference tournament, Atlantic City, N.J.