Cal Men's Basketball: Pac-12 Matchups, Sites Announced
Cal fans must wait until February to see coach Mark Madsen's Golden Bears host UCLA and USC in men's basketball, possibly for the last time.
Cal's weekly Pac-12 Conference matchups and sites for the 2023-24 men’s basketball season were released by the conference on Thursday. And this season's schedule is significant because next season the Golden Bears may not play any of these teams other than Stanford.
Cal and Stanford will move to the ACC in 2023-24, USC, UCLA, Washington and Oregon are headed to the Big Ten next year, and Utah, Colorado, Arizona and Arizona State will be the Big 12.
So Cal could be playing basketball powers UCLA, Arizona and Oregon for the last time. Fortunately Cal will host all three of those schools during this season's 20-game conference schedule.
In fact, Arizona will come to Berkeley for the Bears' first weekend of Pac-12 play on Dec. 27-31. Whether Cal will play Arizona or Arizona State first that week remains to be seen as the exact dates and times of the games has yet to be determined.
Cal will face USC and UCLA on the road in their second weekend of Pac-12 play and will host the two L.A. schools Feb. 7-11. Cal hosts Oregon the week of Feb. 21-25.
Cal is at home against Stanford the week of Jan. 24-28 and travels to Stanford for a game sometime during the week of March 6-9.
Utah will not come to Berkeley at all this season, and the Bears will not face Oregon State on the road. Those are the only two conference opponents Cal will not play twice in 2023-24.
Here are the Bears Pac-12 pairings for 2023-24
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