{"id":873993,"date":"2025-09-18T22:12:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T03:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/18\/big-ten-announces-2025-26-mens-womens-basketball-conference-schedules\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T22:12:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T03:12:05","slug":"big-ten-announces-2025-26-mens-womens-basketball-conference-schedules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/18\/big-ten-announces-2025-26-mens-womens-basketball-conference-schedules\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Ten Announces 2025-26 Men\u2019s, Women’s Basketball Conference Schedules"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Big Ten has released a full breakdown of its men’s<\/a> and women’s<\/a> basketball schedules for the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n

While the college basketball season is set to start in early November, the first Big Ten games aren’t until December.<\/p>\n

Let’s take a look into what that Big Ten schedule will look like, and what some of the premier games could be.<\/p>\n

Here’s the <\/strong>Big Ten men’s basketball schedule<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A total of 18 conference games will be played between Dec. 2-13 before conference play breaks until January 2026. Following the holiday break, Big Ten action will resume on Friday, Jan. 2, 2026 with three games.<\/p>\n

On January 3, Wisconsin<\/a> will host Purdue<\/a> in one of the first premier matchups of the season. On January 7, Indiana<\/a> will face Maryland<\/a> in a matchup of two new coaches \u2014 Darian DeVries and Buzz Williams. On January 10, Michigan<\/a> will host Wisconsin in a rematch of the 2025 Big Ten Tournament Championship.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Michigan State<\/a> will host UCLA<\/a> on February 17 in a battle between coaches Tom Izzo and Mick Cronin. Illinois<\/a> will host Oregon<\/a> on March 3 in a game between two March Madness teams from last year looking to make a jump. The season will close with a big-time rivalry game between the Spartans and the Wolverines on March 8.<\/p>\n

Here’s the <\/strong>Big Ten women’s basketball schedule<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

While JuJu Watkins<\/a> will still be out, it will be interesting to see USC<\/a> and top recruit Jazzy Davidson<\/a> take on Lauren Betts<\/a> and UCLA<\/a> during an early-season rivalry game on January 3. Iowa<\/a> will travel to Indiana<\/a> for a highly-anticipated rivalry game on January 11. UCLA will host Maryland<\/a>, who finished third in the Big Ten last season, on January 18.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Basketball The Big Ten has released a full breakdown of its men’s and women’s basketball schedules for the 2025-26 season. While the college basketball season is set to start in early November, the first Big Ten games aren’t until December. Let’s take a look into what that Big Ten schedule will look like, and what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":873994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124942,551,3681,30093],"tags":[16302],"class_list":{"0":"post-873993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"category-announces","9":"category-basketball","10":"category-mens","11":"tag-nba"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}