The Big West announced a schedule of 16 men’s and women’s basketball games airing on Spectrum SportsNet throughout 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 starts 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 square off on Thursday, December 5 in a 7 p.m. matchup from CSUN’s Premier America Credit Union Arena. 

Hawai`i’s preseason all-conference duo, Lily Wahinekapu and Daejah Phillips, headline the start of the women’s slate on Saturday, January 4, when the Rainbow Wahine, the top team in the women’s preseason poll, travel to Mott Athletics Center on the campus of Cal Poly for a 1 p.m. showdown.  

Games featuring other Big West players with preseason accolades include a Thursday, January 23 matchup between highly touted UCSB graduate transfer Stephan Swenson and UC San Diego senior swingman Aniwaniwa Tait-Jones. The clash between the No. 2 (UCSB) and No. 3 (UCSD) teams in the preseason poll tips off at 7 p.m. from UCSD’s LionTree Arena. UC Irvine senior guard Justin Hohn and the top-rated Anteaters host the conference’s leading returning scorer, UC Davis senior guard TY Johnson, in a 1 p.m. game on Saturday, February 1 at Bren Events Center. 

The package concludes with two key women’s games featuring returning Big West Player of the Year, UC Irvine senior guard Déja Lee. First the Anteaters, the No. 2 team in the preseason poll, travel to Long Beach State (No. 4) on Saturday, March 1 at 1 p.m. for the latest installment of the “Black and Blue Rivalry.” Lee and UC Irvine then close out the action on Spectrum SportsNet on the season’s final day, Saturday, March 8, when they take on the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos in a 1 p.m. tilt.  

The full 16-game slate set to air on Spectrum SportsNet is as follows: 

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

About The Big West
The Big West is an NCAA Division I member with 11 members with the shared goal of empowering every student-athlete in competition and in life and uniting its university communities through championship experiences. Formed in 1969, The Big West 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 Big West is united in the pursuit of boundless opportunities, enduring integrity, bold activism, fearless innovation and the pacific spirit of freedom, exploration and progress. 

The Big West sponsors 21 sports at the NCAA Division I level: 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 track and field, and men’s and women’s water polo.

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