LOS ANGELES — The UCLA men’s basketball team will have all 31 of their regular-season games televised this upcoming season.
The team’s full 2023-24 schedule was released Thursday.
Mick Cronin is entering his fifth season as the program’s head coach. The Bruins return six players and have added eight newcomers (one transfer and seven freshmen).
UCLA will have 12 games televised on ESPN, ESPN2 or ESPNU, including all three games in the Maui Invitational in Honolulu in November.
Five Bruins games will be televised on FOX/FS1, two on CBS (vs. Ohio State in Atlanta, Georgia on Dec. 16 and at Oregon on Dec. 30), and 12 games on the Pac-12 Network.
UCLA will play an exhibition game at home against Cal State Dominguez Hills on Oct. 31, then officially tip off its season against Saint Francis from Pennsylvania at 8:30 p.m. Nov. 6 (Pac-12 Network) at Pauley Pavilion.
The Bruins’ 11-game nonconference schedule also features a highly anticipated home game against future Big Ten Conference foe Maryland, which will be nationally televised at 6 p.m. Dec. 22 on ESPN2.
In Pac-12 play, UCLA will play USC at the Galen Center on Jan. 27, then host the Trojans on Feb. 24. Those two games will start at 5 or 7 p.m.
Seven of UCLA’s final eight games will be broadcast on national TV, including at home against Arizona State on March 9 on FS1.
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