Pac-12 Announces Full Schedule, TV Times
SAN FRANCISCO – California's complete Pac-12 schedule, as well as broadcast information for 31 games of the 2017-18 campaign, was released by the conference today.
The schedule includes at least 22 games on Pac-12 Networks, six on ESPN, two on Fox Sports 1 and one on CBS Sports Network, with the television partner for Cal's game at Seattle still to be determined.
Eight of Cal's 13 non-conference games, as well as the Nov. 6 exhibition game with Great Falls, will be televised on the Pac-12 Networks, while Cal's games at the Maui Invitational are set to air on the ESPN family of networks. The Dec. 9 matchup at San Diego State airs live on CBS Sports Network.
Cal opens the Pac-12 hoops season at Stanford on Dec. 30, broadcasting live on FS1.
Following the Stanford game, Cal's next seven contests air on Pac-12 Network: USC (Jan. 4), UCLA (Jan. 6), at Washington (Jan. 11), at Washington State (Jan. 13), Arizona (Jan. 17) and Arizona State (Jan. 20). The Bears' game against Arizona State will also commemorate recent Cal Athletics Hall of Fame inductee and Golden Bear great Jason Kidd with an exclusive bobblehead giveaway.
Cal's trip to Southern California starts with a Jan. 25 meeting at UCLA live on FS1, followed by a Jan. 28 game at USC on Pac-12 Network. Oregon (Feb. 1) and Oregon State (Feb. 3) visit Berkeley to open the month of February, with both games against the Beaver State schools airing on Pac-12 Network.
The Bears head to the Mountain schools the following week, taking on Colorado (Feb. 7, ESPNU) and Utah (Feb. 10, Pac-12 Network) before returning to Berkeley for a three-game homestand. The trio begins with Stanford on Feb. 18, live on ESPNU, before Cal wraps up its regular-season home slate with the Cougars (Feb. 22) and Huskies (Feb. 24) on Pac-12 Network.
The Pac-12 season caps off in Arizona, where Cal plays Arizona State on ESPNU on March 1 and completes the regular-season slate at Arizona on March 3 on Pac-12 Networks.
Click here for a complete look at the 2017-18 California men's basketball schedule.
The Bears boast one of the nation's top frontcourt defenses in Cal's single-season blocked shots leader Kingsley Okoroh and forward Marcus Lee, eligible for his final season after transferring from Kentucky. Don Coleman, who finished his debut season at Cal with a career-high 26 points in the NIT, returns for his junior year. Cal's newcomers include a talented seven-man freshman class led under the direction of first-year head coach Wyking Jones.
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