SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – With the start of the college basketball season less than a month away, the West Coast Conference officially announced the league’s television schedule for the upcoming 2023-24 men’s basketball season on Thursday morning.
For San Francisco, the Dons will be featured on a national network ten times, which includes six games on CBS Sports Network and four games on ESPN Networks. Notably, the green and gold will appear on CBSSN first when USF battles Grand Canyon in game one of the Arizona Tip-Off tournament on November 17. Additionally, the Dons will take on Gonzaga in Spokane on January 25 in USF’s first of four games on ESPN networks.
A total of 34 games will be nationally televised as part of the WCC’s long-term agreements with ESPN and CBS Sports, with 17 regular season games and five games in the WCC Men’s Basketball Championship on ESPN networks, and 12 regular season contests on CBS Sports Network. In addition to the 34 games in the Conference’s national television package, WCC teams will make 13 appearances on national television in non-conference play.
The WCC will once again be a featured part of ESPN’s coverage with 14 conference games appearing on ESPN networks. In addition to 10 games on Thursdays and Saturdays, WCC men’s hoops will be featured on three Tuesday telecasts and one Wednesday telecast during conference play. WCC basketball will also be featured on ESPN’s Championship Week coverage once again, with six live telecasts from Las Vegas during the WCC Basketball Championship. This includes both the WCC Men’s Basketball and Women’s Basketball championship games on March 12. All games that are televised on an ESPN network will also be available on the ESPN App with TV Everywhere credentials. WCC basketball games that are not nationally televised will be available on ESPN+, the leading sports streaming service.
This season the WCC returns to a complete round robin men’s basketball schedule with all nine teams competing against each other at each venue. The 2024 WCC Men’s Basketball Championship schedule will feature one game on Thursday, March 7, with two games on Friday, March 8; Saturday, March 9; and Monday March 11 before two teams do battle for the conference crown on Tuesday, March 12.
The full 2023-24 San Francisco men’s basketball television schedule can be viewed below:
| DAY | DATE | GAME | NETWORK | TIME (PST) |
| Friday | Nov. 17, 2023 | San Francisco vs. Grand Canyon (Glendale, Ariz.) | CBSSN | 6:00 pm |
| Sunday | Nov. 19, 2023 | San Francisco vs. DePaul/South Carolina (Glendale, Ariz.) | CBSSN | TBA |
| Sunday | Nov. 26, 2023 | Minnesota vs. San Francisco (Chase Center) | CBSSN | 5:30 pm |
| Thursday | Jan. 18, 2024 | Loyola Marymount at San Francisco | CBSSN | 8:00 pm |
| Saturday | Jan. 20, 2024 | Saint Mary’s vs. San Francisco | CBSSN | 7:00 pm |
| Thursday | Jan. 25 | San Francisco at Gonzaga | ESPN2 | 6:00 pm |
| Thursday | Feb. 1 | San Diego vs. San Francisco | CBSSN | 8:00 pm |
| Thursday | Feb. 8 | San Francisco at Pepperdine | ESPNU | 8:00 pm |
| Thursday | Feb. 20 | San Francisco at Saint Mary’s | ESPN2 | 8:00 pm |
| Thursday | Feb. 29 | Gonzaga at San Francisco (Chase Center) | ESPN2 | 8:00 pm |
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