The laborious process of producing a Mountain West men’s basketball schedule continued Wednesday, with the release of television assignments and the adjustment of several dates from the tentative list of games released last month.
Now all we need is tip-off times.
San Diego State learned two things with Wednesday’s release:
All 20 of its conference games are on some sort of linear TV, including three on big-boy CBS: Jan. 24 at UNLV, Jan. 31 at Utah State and Feb. 28 at New Mexico.
Five games were moved by a day from the initial schedule. Four moved from Tuesday to Wednesday — Jan 14 at Wyoming, Jan 21 at Grand Canyon, Jan. 28 vs. Colorado State, Feb. 25 vs. Utah State — and one, a March 6 game vs. UNLV, from Saturday to Friday.
It means 14 of SDSU’s 20 games will be played either on Wednesdays or Saturdays. Only one home date is a Tuesday night during school, Feb. 3 against Wyoming, when there is a heavier schedule of evening classes at SDSU and traffic is typically worse.
SDSU will appear on all three CBS telecasts but not on the one big-boy Fox telecast this season. That is Grand Canyon at UNLV on Feb. 7.
In past years, the major network telecasts were usually toward the very beginning of the conference schedule, presumably to get the Mountain West out of the way early so they could show power conferences later in the schedule as interest in college basketball swells. In 2025-26, however, SDSU’s three network games are all between Jan. 24 and Feb. 28, perhaps a nod toward the expected national relevance of the Aztecs.
Also, notably, all three CBS games are on the road, two at altitude.
San Diego State’s 2025-26 Mountain West basketball schedule
Dec. 17 (Wednesday): AIR FORCE (CBS Sports Network)
Dec. 30 (Tuesday): at San Jose State (CBSSN)
Jan. 3 (Saturday): BOISE STATE (CBSSN)
Jan. 6 (Tuesday): at Nevada (Fox Sports 1)
Jan. 10 (Saturday): FRESNO STATE (CBSSN)
Jan. 14 (Wednesday): at Wyoming (CSNSN)
Jan. 17 (Saturday): NEW MEXICO (CBSSN)
Jan. 21 (Wednesday): at Grand Canyon (FS1)
Jan. 24 (Saturday): at UNLV (CBS)
Jan. 28 (Wednesday): COLORADO STATE (FS1)
Jan. 31 (Saturday): at Utah State (CBS)
Feb. 3 (Tuesday): WYOMING (CBSSN)
Feb. 7 (Saturday): at Air Force (FS1)
Feb. 14 (Saturday): NEVADA (CBSSN)
Feb. 17 (Tuesday): GRAND CANYON (CBSSN)
Feb. 21 (Saturday): at Colorado State (CBSSN)
Feb. 25 (Wednesday): UTAH STATE (FS1)
Feb. 28 (Saturday): at New Mexico (CBS)
March 3 (Tuesday): at Boise State (CBSSN)
March 5 (Friday): UNLV (CBSSN)