Arizona season-ticket holders might want to make sure they're home the weekend of Feb. 7-11, since the Wildcats will be hosting top rivals USC and UCLA in their only regular-season meetings next season.
The Pac-12 announced all the basketball weekend schedule pairs today and, while exact dates and order of which teams will be played first will not be set until late summer, the pairs give Tucson fans a good idea when to be home and when UA fans elsewhere can meet the Wildcats on the road.
UA will open the league season in the days leading up to the New Year with a home game against ASU, while finishing at home against Cal and Stanford. While the Wildcats won't have to make the trip to Los Angeles, a late-season swing to Oregon and OSU could determine if the Wildcats win the league title as they are expected to.
UA also does not have to host Washington and WSU under the league's unbalanced schedule, so the "misses" next season appear to be a wash for the Wildcats.
Here's the entire schedule without the exact Pac-12 dates yet:
Aug. 13 Exhibition game TBA, Valencia, Spain (tentative date)
Aug. 16 Exhibition game TBA, Barcelona, Spain (tentative date)
Aug. 18 Exhibition game TBA, Barcelona, Spain (tentative date)
Oct. 20 Red-Blue Game (intrasquad scrimmage)
Nov. 1 Eastern New Mexico (exhibition)
Nov. 5 Chico State (exhibition)
Nov. 10 NAU
Nov. 12 UMBC (Battle 4 Atlantis add-on game)
Nov. 16 Cal State Bakersfield
Nov. 22-24 Battle 4 Atlantis (Bracket TBA. Possible opponents: Villanova, Purdue, N.C. State, Tennessee, SMU, Western Kentucky, Northern Iowa)
Nov. 29 Long Beach State
Dec. 2 at UNLV
Dec. 5 Texas A&M (at Phoenix)
Dec. 9 Alabama
Dec. 16 at New Mexico
Dec 18 North Dakota State
Dec 21 Connecticut
**Pac-12 games (exact order and dates TBA)**
Dec. 27-31 ASU
Jan. 3-7 at Colorado/Utah
Jan. 10-14 Oregon/Oregon State
Jan. 17-21 at Cal
Jan. 24-28, Colorado/Utah
Jan. 31-Feb. 4 at Washington/WSU
Feb. 7-11 UCLA/USC
Feb. 14-18 at ASU
Feb. 21-25 at Oregon/OSU
Feb. 28-March 3 Cal/Stanford
March 7-10 Pac-12 Tournament, Las Vegas
March 14-18 NCAA Tournament first/second rounds
March 21-25 NCAA Tournament Sweet 16/Elite Eight
March 31-April 2 NCAA Tournament Final Four
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