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Cal Poly Opens Six-Game Road Trip Saturday at Seattle
11/7/2025 12:04:00 PM | Men's Basketball
SAN LUIS OBISPO – Victory No. 1 of the 2025-26 season secured, the Cal Poly men’s basketball program begins a six-game road trip – it’s lengthiest in four years – when visiting Seattle University on Saturday, Nov. 8. Tip time from the Redhawk Center is 7 p.m. for Cal Poly (1-1), which evened its early record with a 101-79 home victory against Division III Pacific Lutheran (Nov. 5) following a season-opening setback at USC (Nov. 3). The Redhawks, meanwhile, opened their 2025-26 season with an 84-73 home win versus Denver (Nov. 3).
CAL POLY VERSUS SEATTLE UNIVERSITY: The Mustangs have prevailed in three of their four all-time meetings with Seattle, including a 75-71 home victory on Nov. 14, 2024. Cal Poly also prevailed in its only road matchup with Seattle, producing a 76-70 victory inside Key Arena on Nov. 14, 2010.
WARD, MOUSA ENJOY CAREER NIGHTS: Guard Cayden Ward bettered his previous career scoring high by seven points during Wednesday’s regular season home-opening win against Pacific Lutheran while fellow sophomore Hamad Mousa (above) nearly eclipsed his entire total from last year’s effort at Dayton with a 23-point performance in the victory. Ward, who finished with 26 points against PLU, has emerged as Cal Poly’s early scoring leader at 18.5 points per game. Mousa, meanwhile, is averaging 17.5 points and a team leading 8.5 rebounds per night.
Sights and sounds from Wednesday's 101-79 regular season home-opening victory!#RideHigh pic.twitter.com/PUS4MYai8B
— Cal Poly Men’s Basketball (@calpolymbb) November 6, 2025
MUSTANGS LOOK TO BUILD OFF OF HISTORIC 2024-25 SEASON: In addition to reaching the Big West Championship semifinals for the first time in 11 years last spring during head coach Mike DeGeorge’s first season, the 2024-25 Mustangs:
- Recorded the most overall wins (16) and Big West wins (eight) since the 2012-13 season;
- Finished third among 355 Division I programs in three-pointers made (11.5) and attempted (31.8) per game, 19th with 82.1 points per game and 30th in effective field goal percentage (55.4);
- Averaged 18.4 more points per game than the 2023-24 season – the most significant turnaround in the nation and;
- Enjoyed a 12-win improvement from previous season marking the fourth most dramatic reversal among Division I programs.
UNITED NATIONS: Cal Poly’s 2025-26 roster features players from nine different countries – a figure eclipsed by only UT Martin (13). Cal Poly, however, is the only Division I program this year with a roster that canvasses all six habitable continents/regions.
CLOSED PORTAL DOORS: Alongside Duke, Tennessee, American and Boston University, Cal Poly was just one of just five Division I programs not to lose a player to the transfer portal during the offseason.
SANDERS DEBUT MAKES NBA MUSTANGS TWO: Cal Poly saw a second Mustang alum make his NBA debut on Oct. 22 when guard Kobe Sanders (2020-24) – drafted 50th overall by the New York Knicks in June before being traded to the Clippers – appeared for Los Angeles. Cal Poly’s first and only NBA Draft selection since 1978, Sanders joined guard David Nwaba (2013-16) – who appeared for the Los Angeles Lakers, Chicago, Cleveland, Brooklyn and Houston between 2017 and 2022 – as the only former Mustangs to play in the NBA.
LOOKING AHEAD (WEDNESDAY, NOV. 12): Cal Poly’s six-game road trip continues Wednesday, Nov. 12 at Colorado State (1-0). Tip time against the Rams – who reached the NCAA Tournament second round last year and host Omaha Sunday afternoon – is 6 p.m. PT.
ETC.: The Mustangs are in their 32nd Division I season and 82nd as a four-year program … Cal Poly’s Nov. 3 season opener at USC marked the earliest start date in program history … the Mustangs improved to 50-1 against non-Division I opposition with a 101-79 home victory against Division III Pacific Lutheran on Nov. 5 (Cal Poly transitioned to he Division I level prior to the 1994-95 season).
