STOCKTON, Calif. – The Pacific men's basketball team announced its 16-game non-conference schedule on Monday afternoon, featuring six home games, a neutral court tournament in Las Vegas and seven road matches.

Bethesda comes to Stockton to open the season for the Tigers' season opener on November 3 for the schools' first ever meeting. The team then hits the road for a quick two-game trip to Illinois to face Bradley followed by the return trip to Long Beach. Pacific has gotten the better of the Beach in recent history, claiming the last three matchups while the series history is split 1-1 against Bradley dating back to 2009.

The remainder of a busy November will be split between the Spanos Center and Las Vegas. Air Force concludes its home-and-home contract with the Tigers as the program goes for a fourth straight win against the Falcons. Pacific Union returns to Stockton for the first time since 2019, when Pacific handily dispatched the Pioneers. Then finally Bradley comes to Stockton, completing the in-season home-and-home.

Like their women counterparts, the men's program will be on a neutral court for Thanksgiving, taking part in the Vegas MTE at Resorts World where they will face Jax State, Omaha, and UC Davis. The first two teams of the tournament both represent program first matchups while the game with UCD is the first neutral court meeting since 2009 and an opportunity to correct a recent slide in which Pacific has dropped six of the last seven to the Aggies.

Flipping the calendar to December, five of seven games will be on the road – starting with a two-game swing against Nevada and Stanford. The Wolf Pack featured on the schedule last year and were taken down to the buzzer by the Tigers, who are searching for the first win in Reno since 2013. Meanwhile Stanford returns for the first time since 2022. The most recent two meetings have produced close games as the team has kept it close against the Power Four foe – dropping ten- and nine-point games.

Utah Valley provides a quick pit stop home in another program first before returning to the road to face New Mexico State in Las Cruces. Dating back to 2006, the Tigers have not been able to best the Aggies.

Lastly the final three games of the non-con feature Southern, a program first, Sac State on the road looking to extend good fortunes against the Hornets (won four of the last five) and Utah State on the road – the first meeting since 2013.

The conference portion of the schedule is slated to be released tomorrow at noon by the WCC.

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