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The Big West to televise 16 basketball games on Spectrum SportsNet in 2024-25 – Big West Conference

The Great West declared a schedule of 16 men’s and women’s basketball games broadcast on Spectrum SportsNet during the 2024-25 season.

The fourth season of Big West Basketball on Spectrum SportsNet features every Big West men’s basketball team in action at least once along with five women’s games featuring five different teams. The action begins on “Bold Week” — the first week of conference play — when Big West preseason all-conference team members Barrington Hargress of UC Riverside and Keonte Jones of CSUN face off on Thursday, December 5th in a 7:00 pm game at CSUN’s Premier America Credit Union Arena.

Hawai`i’s preseason all-conference duo, Lily Wahinekapu and Daeja Phillipsheadline the women’s opener on Saturday, Jan. 4, when the Rainbow Wahine, the top-ranked team in the women’s preseason poll, travel to the Mott Athletics Center on the Cal Poly campus for a 1 p.m.

Games with others Big West players with preseason honors include a Thursday, Jan. 23 game between highly touted UCSB graduate transfer Stefan Svensson and UC San Diego senior swingman Aniwaniva Tait-Jones. The matchup between the No. 2 (UCSB) and No. 3 (UCSD) teams in the preseason poll begins at 7:00 PM from UCSD’s LionTree Arena. UC Irvine senior guard Justin Hon and the top-rated Anteaters host the conference’s leading returning scorer, UC Davis senior guard TY Johnsonin a 1:00pm game on Saturday, February 1 at the Bren Events Center.

The package concludes with two key women’s games featuring returning Big West Player of the Year UC Irvine senior guard Deya Lee. First the Anteaters, the #2 team in the preseason poll, travel to Long Beach State (#4) on Saturday, March 1st at 1:00 PM for the latest installment of the “Black and Blue Rivalry.” Lee and UC Irvine then wrap up action on Spectrum SportsNet on the final day of the season, Saturday, March 8 when they take on the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos in a 1:00 p.m. tilt.

The complete 1The 6-game schedule to be broadcast on Spectrum SportsNet is as follows:























A game

Time (PT)


UC Riverside at CSUN (Men’s)

7 in the evening


Hawaii at Long Beach State (Men)

1 in the afternoon


Hawai`i at Cal Poly (Women)

1 in the afternoon


* Hawai`i at Cal State Fullerton (Men)

1 in the afternoon


UC Riverside at UC Santa Barbara (Men’s)

7 in the evening


UC Davis at UC Santa Barbara (Men)

1 in the afternoon


UC Santa Barbara at UC San Diego (Men)

7 in the evening


Cal Poly at Long Beach State (Women)

1 in the afternoon


UC Davis at UC Irvine (Men)

1 in the afternoon


Hawai`i at Cal Poly (Men)

7 in the evening


* Cal State Bakersfield at UC Riverside (Men’s)

7 in the evening


Cal State Fullerton at Cal State Bakersfield (Men)

1 in the afternoon


Cal Poly at UC Riverside (Women)

1 in the afternoon


UC Irvine at Long Beach State (Women)

1 in the afternoon


Cal State Fullerton at Cal Poly (Men’s)

7 in the evening


* UC Santa Barbara at UC Irvine (Women)

1 in the afternoon

* Teams subject to change based on ESPN wildcard selections. The choice is made approximately 10 days prior to the broadcast date.

Everyone The 2024-25 men’s and women’s Big West basketball games will also appear on the ESPN family of networks.

For the Great West
The Big West is an 11-member NCAA Division I team with the shared goal of empowering every student-athlete in competition and in life and uniting their university communities through championship experiences. Established in 1969, The Big West’s membership consists of Cal Poly, Cal State Bakersfield, Cal State Fullerton, CSUN, Hawai’i, Long Beach State, UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC Riverside, UC San Diego and UC Santa Barbara. The Great West is united in the pursuit of limitless opportunity, enduring integrity, bold activism, fearless innovation, and the peaceful spirit of freedom, exploration, and progress.

The Big West sponsors 21 NCAA Division I sports: baseball, softball, men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s volleyball, women’s beach volleyball, men’s and women’s cross country, men’s and women’s golf, men’s and women’s soccer, men’s and women’s swimming, and diving, men’s and women’s tennis, men’s and women’s athletics, and men’s and women’s water polo.

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