Cal Poly Men’s Basketball Announces 2024-25 Schedule
9/27/2024 10:28:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Cal Poly Men's Basketball
2024-25 Opening Games
SAN LUIS OBISPO – Headlined by 14 home matchups inside Mott Athletics Center, 15 contests against programs that won 20-plus games a year ago and four opponents that captured regular season conference titles last season, the Cal Poly men’s basketball program – under the direction of first-year head coach Mike DeGeorge – released its 2024-25 regular season schedule on Friday morning.
Cal Poly’s 2024-25 schedule also includes three programs that reached last year’s NCAA Tournament (Saint Mary’s, Grambling, Long Beach State), two that qualified for the NIT (San Francisco, UC Irvine) and 2024 College Basketball Insider postseason tournament champion Seattle.
After hosting Cal Tech for a Friday, Oct. 25 exhibition, Cal Poly opens the regular season at San Francisco (23-11, 11-5 WCC last season) on Tuesday, Nov. 5 and California (13-19, 9-11 Pac-12) on Thursday, Nov. 7. San Francisco fell at Cincinnati during the opening round of last season’s NIT while Cal Poly’s matchup with California is just its third against a current ACC program in the last 24 years after the Golden Bears – alongside Stanford, whom the Mustangs visit on Saturday, Nov. 30 – departed the Pac-12 Conference during the offseason.
Cal Poly’s 14-game home stretch begins on Sunday, Nov. 10 versus NAIA Menlo College (19-9, 7-7 GSAC) and continues on Thursday, Nov. 14 versus Seattle (23-14, 11-9 WAC), which outlasted High Point to capture last year’s CBI postseason title.
A three-game road trip follows at reigning Big Sky Conference regular season champion Eastern Washington (21-11, 15-3) on Sunday, Nov. 17, Arizona State (14-18, 8-12 Pac-12) on Wednesday, Nov. 20 and Saint Mary’s (26-8, 15-1 WCC) on Saturday, Nov. 23. Arizona State marks Cal Poly’s first matchup with a current Big 12 Conference program since a 2012 visit to TCU (the Sun Devils also departed the Pac-12 in the offseason). Saint Mary’s, meanwhile, captured both last season’s WCC regular season and tournament titles before being eliminated in the first round of the NCAA Tournament by Grand Canyon.
A second straight NCAA Tournament qualifier follows in Grambling (21-15, 14-4 SWAC), which visits Cal Poly on Tuesday, Nov. 26. After winning both the SWAC regular season and tournament titles last year, the Tigers – in their first NCAA Tournament appearance – topped Montana State in the First Four before falling to eventual national runner-up, Purdue.
We're live with the 2024-25 schedule. See you in Mott Friday, Oct. 25!#RideHigh pic.twitter.com/jmDxP1NfPI
— Cal Poly Men’s Basketball (@calpolymbb) September 27, 2024
The 2024-25 Big West schedule features a pair of games in early December with Cal Poly drawn at UC Davis (20-13, 14-6 Big West) in the Thursday, Dec. 5 conference opener before returning home to host CSUN (19-15, 9-11) on Saturday, Dec. 7.
Cal Poly then returns to and completes non-conference action at San Jose State (9-23, 2-16 Mountain West) on Saturday, Dec. 14 before hosting Denver (17-17, 6-10 Summit League) on Wednesday, Dec. 17 and visiting Omaha (15-18, 7-9 Summit) on Saturday, Dec. 21.
The Mustangs resume conference play on Thursday, Jan. 2 when hosting last year’s Big West regular season champion UC Irvine, who also qualified for the 2024 NIT.
Road matchups follow at Hawai’i (20-14, 11-9) on Saturday, Jan. 4 and 2024 Big West regular season runner-up UC San Diego (21-12, 15-5) on Thursday, Jan. 9 before the Mustangs host Blue-Green rival UC Santa Barbara (16-15, 9-11) on Saturday, Jan. 11.
Selected home matchups follow against UC Davis, 2024 Big West Championship winner Long Beach State (21-15, 10-10) on Saturday, Jan. 25 and Hawai’i (20-14, 11-9). Eliminating the top two seeds to capture last year’s Big West Championship, Long Beach State fell to second-seeded Arizona in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
Four of Cal Poly’s final six Big West games occur inside Mott Athletics Center, culminating with a Thursday, March 6 senior night matchup against Cal State Fullerton (14-18, 7-13).
The 50th Big West Championship returns to Lee’s Family Forum (Henderson, Nev.) March 11, 13-15. Seeds 5-8 square off in the Tuesday, March 11 opening round, advancing to face seeds Nos. 3 and 4 during the Thursday, March 13 quarterfinals. The top two seeds enter for the Friday, March 14 semifinals with the 2025 Big West Championship final set for Saturday, March 15.
