UCLA Basketball: Bruins' Final Slate Of Pac-12 Weekly Matchups Announced for 2023

The new college basketball season will be here before anyone realizes it, and that means it’s time to start canceling plans to watch the games. It should be another fun season altogether, and for the UCLA Bruins program, it will have a different feeling.

While the team still expects to be relevant within the Pac-12, and nationally, they may not be on the championship level just yet. They are going to be led by multiple freshman players, and they could see themselves taking a slight step back from years prior.

Recently the Pac-12 Conference announced the home and away designations for the weeks of league play during the upcoming season. Dates and times for the games have yet to be announced, but it’s exciting that we have this now.

UCLA opens its 11-week conference schedule play against Oregon and Oregon State on the road during the last week of the year. The Bruins then return back to Westwood to open 2024, and prior to the start of their Pac-12 games, they have an 11-game nonconference schedule to take care of.

“UCLA will return home to Pauley Pavilion presented by Wescom for the first week of January, taking on California and Stanford (week of Jan. 3-7). The following week (Jan. 10-14), the Bruins will play one game at Utah and one contest at home against Washington. The third week of the Pac-12 schedule (Jan. 10-14) will flex to single-play opponents at home and on the road.”

Per UCLABruins.com

They continue the rest of the schedule until the middle of March when the Pac-12 Tournament starts. It will take place starting on March 13 and will go through March 16 from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The Bruins will be banking on a good showing there to possibly help or boost their NCAA Tournament chances.

It should be a fun year for UCLA if anything. They will give opponents some problems with their size, and it should help them win games.