Dates, times for Arizona’s Pac-12 schedule revealed

The Pac-12 officially announced the dates and times for all basketball games Thursday, and here is what the Arizona Wildcats’ conference schedule looks like.

(You can see the dates and times for the entire conference here.)

Pac-12 dates and times

• vs. Colorado — Thurs., Jan. 3, — 7 p.m., FS1
• vs. Utah — Sat., Jan. 5, — 12 p.m., Pac-12
• at Stanford — Wed, Jan. 9, — 9 p.m, Pac-12
• at California — Sat., Jan. 12 — 8:30 p.m., Pac-12
• vs. Oregon — Thurs., Jan. 17 — 7 p.m., ESPN/2
• vs. Oregon State — Sat., Jan. 19 — 5 p.m., Pac-12
• at USC — Thurs., Jan. 24, — 7 p.m., FS1
• at UCLA — Sat., Jan. 26, — 8 p.m., ESPN2
• at Arizona State — Thurs., Jan. 31 — 7 p.m., ESPN/2/U
• vs. Washington — Thurs., Feb 7 — 7 p.m., ESPN/2
• vs. Washington State — Sat., Feb. 9 — 5:30 p.m., Pac-12
• at Utah — Thurs., Feb. 14 — 7 p.m., ESPN2/U
• at Colorado — Sun., Feb. 17 — 6 p.m., ESPNU
• vs. Cal — Thurs., Feb. 21 — 7 p.m., FS1
• vs. Stanford — Sun., Feb. 24 — 6 p.m., ESPNU
• at Oregon State — Thurs., Feb. 28 — 7 p.m., FS1
• at Oregon — Sat., March 2, — 2/4/8 p.m., ESPN/2
• vs. ASU — Sat., March 9 — 2 p.m., CBS

Takeaways

• The first thing I noticed is Arizona gets an extra day off between the Utah and Colorado road games. That seems important since that is the only road trip in the conference that requires a flight between games. It’s also important because it gives the Wildcats more time to recover from the altitude.
• Arizona’s other Thursday-Sunday series comes at home against the Bay Area schools in the penultimate week of conference play.
• There are no conference home games that start after 7 p.m. local time, which is generally seen as a good thing, since 8 p.m. or even 9 p.m. starts (remember that GCU game?) are not viewed favorably.
• However, there is one late start on the road, and that’s a 9 p.m. MST game at Stanford.
• We don’t know the game time for the road game at Oregon yet. Three different times were given, so it likely depends on how marquee of a matchup that is when the time comes.
• It’s always worth repeating that Arizona does not host the L.A. schools this year, and it does not travel to Washington.

Entire 2018-19 schedule