{"id":114224,"date":"2025-09-02T22:50:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T22:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/114224\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T22:50:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T22:50:13","slug":"mens-basketball-to-play-two-exhibition-games-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/114224\/","title":{"rendered":"Men’s Basketball to Play Two Exhibition Games in October"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES \u2013 The UCLA men’s basketball team will open the season with a pair of exhibition games, both open to the public, at San Diego State and at home versus UC Irvine in October.
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\nThe Bruins will tip-off their schedule with an exhibition contest at San Diego State, playing at Viejas Arena, on Friday, Oct. 17. Less than two weeks later, UCLA will host an exhibition game against UC Irvine in Pauley Pavilion presented by Wescom on Tuesday, Oct. 28.
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\nGame times and broadcast details for these two games have not been determined.
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\nBoth of these exhibition games provide fans with early opportunities to watch the 2025-26 Bruins, who return four primary contributors from last season’s rotation \u2013 seniors Tyler Bilodeau<\/a> and Skyy Clark<\/a>, junior Eric Dailey Jr.<\/a> and sophomore Trent Perry<\/a>. Also back from redshirt seasons include redshirt sophomore Brandon Williams<\/a> and redshirt freshman Eric Freeny<\/a>.
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\nUCLA will open the regular-season schedule at home against Eastern Washington on Monday, Nov. 3. The Bruins’ complete non-conference schedule was announced last week (full details here<\/a>).
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\nIncluding the exhibition contest on Oct. 28, UCLA will play nine non-conference games in Pauley Pavilion prior to January. In addition, UCLA will host one home Big Ten Conference game in early December (the conference schedule has not been finalized).
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\nTICKET INFORMATION: UCLA’s season ticket packages<\/a> for the 2025-26 men’s basketball campaign are now available. Fans can call (310) 206-5991 or email\u00a0tickets@athletics.ucla.edu<\/a>\u00a0for more information. Single-game tickets for UCLA’s non-conference home games will be available when the complete schedule is released in September. For more information about tickets, call UCLA Athletic Sales & Service at (310) 206-5991 or via email at tickets@athletics.ucla.edu<\/a>.
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\nEXHIBITION OPPONENTS AT A GLANCE
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\nSan Diego State
\nFriday, Oct. 17 \u2013 at SDSU’s Viejas Arena in San Diego
\nRecord in 2024-25: 21-10, 14-6 in the Mountain West Conference
\nHead Coach: Brian Dutcher (enters his ninth season as head coach)
\nSan Diego State, last three seasons: 79-28 (73.8 win percentage)
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\nUC Irvine
\nTuesday, Oct. 28 \u2013 at UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion
\nRecord in 2024-25: 32-7, 17-3 in the Big West Conference
\nHead Coach: Russell Turner (enters his 16th season as head coach)
\nUC Irvine, last three seasons: 79-29 (73.1 win percentage)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2013 The UCLA men’s basketball team will open the season with a pair of exhibition games,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-114224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}