SAN FRANCISCO – It’s safe to say that there isn’t a power-conference school that will be as well traveled as Cal in the first two weeks of the regular season. The Golden Bears open up the 2018-19 season Nov. 9 against Yale in Shanghai; 10 days later, they’ll be in Brooklyn for the Legends Classic to take on St. John’s and either VCU or Temple. And oh yeah, they have two games in Berkeley in between the trips to China and New York.

All told, head coach Wyking Jones and company will have flown more than 18,000 miles by the time they get home from their stay in Brooklyn.

“Well, it’s going to be a lot of travel, obviously,” Jones said at 2018 Pac-12 Men’s Basketball Media Day. “[The travel is] a little bit of a concern, but the guys have to play a 40-minute game. They should be ready to go.”

The Golden Bears will head out Nov. 2 to China and will get back to the Bay Area right around the time the clock ticks to Nov. 11 (that’s 14,291 miles and 28 hours and 21 minutes worth of flying, for those keeping score at home), which will maybe give them enough time to adjust their body clocks to the Pacific Time Zone for Nov. 13 and Nov. 15 games against Hampton and Detroit Mercy, respectively. Cal will then take off Nov. 16 to New York for games on Nov. 19 and 20 at the Legends Classic before finally getting a bit of a reprieve in the schedule, as the team won’t play again until Nov. 26 against Santa Clara.

Sound daunting? Not to junior point guard Paris Austin.

“I’m excited. We get to go to China. We get to go to Brooklyn,” Austin said. “I’ve never been to Brooklyn. I’ve never been to China, so I’m excited.”

While in China for the Pac-12 China Game, the Golden Bears will visit the Shanghai Disney Resort, take a river cruise on the Bund, a waterfront that runs through Shanghai, and check out Hangzhou, which has been described to the Golden Bears as the Lake Tahoe of China.

“It’s going to be a great experience for us as a team on and off the court,” sophomore forward Justice Sueing said. “We’re pretty much like a family. I’m just looking forward to us competing.”

It will be a great cultural experience for the team, but don’t get it twisted, Jones wants a W.

“It’s a business trip,” Jones said. “We’re there first and foremost to win the game, and we’re really looking forward to it.”