LA JOLLA, Calif. — The UC San Diego men's basketball 2024-25 Big West conference schedule has been released, as announced Thursday afternoon by the conference office. This season will be UC San Diego's fifth in NCAA Division I, and the first after the conclusion of the NCAA's mandated four-year transition period. Beginning this fall, the Tritons are fully postseason eligible.
The 20-game round-robin schedule will see each team play a home-and-home series between Dec. 5 and March 8. With the addition of the conference's
Bold Week on Dec. 5-7, The Big West will maintain its regular Thursday/Saturday competition format.
The Tritons will begin their Big West slate on Thursday, Dec. 5, when they visit UC Santa Barbara. The conference home opener takes place two days later against Cal State Bakersfield inside LionTree Arena.
Big West play resumes after the start of the New Year on Jan. 4 at Cal State Fullerton. Home contests in January include Cal Poly (Jan. 9), UC Irvine (Jan. 11), UC Santa Barbara (Jan. 23), and CSUN (Jan. 25).The UCSB contest on Jan. 23 will be UC San Diego's annual Spirit Night.
February home games include UC Riverside (Feb. 6), UC Davis (Feb. 15), and Hawai'i (Feb. 22). The Tritons will also host Cal State Fullerton (March 1) and Long Beach State (March 6). UC San Diego was 15-5 in Big West action last season, finishing second in the conference standings. The Tritons also went 9-1 in conference home games at LionTree Arena.
Following the regular season finale on March 8 at UC Davis, The Big West Basketball Championships will be held March 12-15 at Lee's Family Forum in Henderson, Nev.
UC San Diego men's basketball season tickets are available online by
clicking here, by calling (858) 534-1430, or by visiting the Triton Box Office, now located in the Price Center on the UC San Diego campus, between 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. For more information, e-mail the box office at
triton-tix@ucsd.edu.
UC San Diego's 2024 non-conference contests will be announced in the coming weeks.
About UC San Diego Athletics
After two decades as one of the most successful programs in NCAA Division II, the UC San Diego intercollegiate athletics program began a new era in 2020 as a member of The Big West Conference in NCAA Division I. The 23-sport Tritons earned 30 team and nearly 150 individual national championships during its time in Divisions II and III and helped guide 1,400 scholar-athletes to All-America honors. A total of 84 Tritons have earned Academic All-America honors, while 38 have earned prestigious NCAA Post Graduate Scholarships. UC San Diego scholar-athletes exemplify the academic ideals of one of the world's preeminent institutions, graduating at an average rate of 91 percent, one of the highest rates among institutions at all divisions.
