SHAWNEE, OK – The three-time TBL champion Potawatomi Fire are excited to announce their schedule for the upcoming 2026 TBL season.
The 20-game regular season schedule features 10 homes games inside FireLake Arena in Shawnee, OK and 10 road games spanning sites in Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Texas. A full schedule is posted below.
“I’m excited about this schedule,” said Fire general manager David Qualls. “Not only do we have some familiar names on the schedule, but we also have some new opponents in the Central Conference that our fans will be excited about seeing. We’ve enjoyed unprecedented success these last few years and I can’t to see how our team responds to the challenges of the upcoming season. I have no doubt that we will, again, be in a good position to add more trophies to our collection.”
The reigning back-to-back-to-back TBL champs will open their season on the road against ADS Sentinel on Saturday, March 7th. ADS Sentinel are new to The Basketball League (TBL) this season and will play their home games in Converse, Texas. The Fire’s home opener will be on Saturday, March 14th against the newly rebranded Muskogee Sky Kings.
Other key dates in March include a trip to Little Elm, Texas on Sunday, March 22nd to face Creating Young Minds (CYM), who are now full members of TBL after playing an abbreviated schedule last year. The Fire will also visit TBL newcomers, the Sherman Stampede, on Friday, March 27th. That game will take place in Sherman, Texas.
In April, the Fire will make their lone trip to Arkansas on Easter Sunday, April 5th, to face the Little Rock Lightning. The Fire will then host their annual Pink Out game on Thursday, April 9th when they host their in-state rivals, the Enid Outlaws.
The Fire are set to close out their regular season on Sunday, May 24th when they again travel to Little Elm, Texas to face CYM.
2026 Potawatomi Fire Schedule:
Dates and Locations are subject to change
March 7th at ADS Sentinel – Away (ADS Sports Complex – Converse, TX)
March 13th at Enid Outlaws – Away (Stride Bank Center – Enid, OK)
March 14th vs Muskogee Sky Kings – Home (FireLake Arena – Shawnee, OK)
March 20th vs Little Rock Lightning – Home (FireLake Arena – Shawnee, OK)
March 22nd at Creating Young Minds – Away (Little Elm H.S. – Little Elm, TX)
March 27th at Sherman Stampede – Away (Taylor Street Gym – Sherman, TX)
March 28th vs Creating Young Minds – Home (FireLake Arena – Shawnee, OK)
April 3rd vs Sherman Stampede – Home (FireLake Arena – Shawnee, OK)
April 5th at Little Rock Lightning – Away (Hall H.S. – Little Rock, AR)
April 9th vs Enid Outlaws (PINK OUT GAME) – Home (FireLake Arena – Shawnee, OK)
April 11th vs Creating Young Minds – Home (FireLake Arena – Shawnee, OK)
April 17th at Muskogee Sky Kings – Away (Site TBD – Muskogee, OK)
April 24th vs Muskogee Sky Kings – Home (FireLake Arena – Shawnee, OK)
April 26th at Enid Outlaws – Away (Stride Bank Center – Enid, OK)
May 1st vs ADS Sentinel – Home (FireLake Arena – Shawnee, OK)
May 8th at Muskogee Sky Kings – Away (Site TBD – Muskogee, OK)
May 10th vs Sherman Stampede – Home (FireLake Arena – Shawnee, OK)
May 14th vs Enid Outlaws – Home (FireLake Arena – Shawnee, OK)
May 16th at Sherman Stampede – Away (Taylor Street Gym – Sherman, OK)
May 24th at Creating Young Minds – Away (Little Elm H.S. – Little Elm, TX)
Individual game tickets and season tickets will be on sale soon.
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ABOUT THE POTAWATOMI FIRE
The Potawatomi Fire are the first professional basketball team owned by a Native American tribe (Citizen Potawatomi Nation) in Oklahoma. The Fire compete in the Central Conference of The Basketball League (TBL), a men’s professional basketball league, with roughly 40 teams across the U.S. and Canada. The Fire play their home games at FireLake Arena in Shawnee, Oklahoma.
Through their first four years, the Fire have established themselves as the premier franchise in TBL. Along with winning the TBL championship in 2023, 2024 and 2025, the Fire organization was named the 2022 winner of the Jim Koch Award as TBL’s Best Ran Business. The dance team of the Fire, the Fire Girls, were named TBL’s Best Dance Team in 2022 and 2025. The Fire Girls were also named the Central Conference Best Dance Team in 2023 and 2024.