Big Ten reveals Huskers\u2019 conference schedule, announces men\u2019s tournament format changes<\/a><\/p>\nThe Huskers return home to face 2025 WBIT qualifier Oral Roberts on Wednesday, Nov. 19, before flying to Florida for the Emerald Coast Classic (Nov. 24-25). NU will take on Purdue Fort Wayne, which advanced to the 2025 WNIT Great 8, before potentially facing Virginia, which went 17-15 and 8-10 in the ACC a year ago.<\/p>\n
Nebraska returns to Pinnacle Bank Arena to battle Bradley (Wednesday, Dec. 3), before tipping Big Ten action at Penn State (Dec. 6).<\/p>\n
The Huskers come back home to open a four-game stand starting with Omaha (Tuesday, Dec. 9), before tangling with WNIT Fab 4 participant Illinois State on Sunday, Dec. 14. NU closes non-conference play against Cal Baptist (Sunday, Dec. 21).<\/p>\n
The Huskers make their home Big Ten debut against USC on Monday, Dec. 29. The Trojans advanced to the NCAA Elite Eight a year ago with a roster that features reigning Big Ten and National Player-of-the-Year JuJu Watkins.<\/p>\n
USC will be the first of six Big Ten teams that qualified for the 2025 NCAA Tournament to take on the Huskers at Pinnacle Bank Arena in 2025-26.<\/p>\n
After playing the Big Ten home opener against the Trojans, the Huskers travel to Iowa to face the Hawkeyes on New Year\u2019s Day, before opening a rare three-game Big Ten home stand with Purdue (Sunday, Jan. 4). The stand continues against NCAA qualifier Indiana (Thursday, Jan. 8), before 2025 NCAA Final Four qualifier UCLA visits Lincoln for the first time since helping the Huskers open the doors to Pinnacle Bank Arena (Nov. 8, 2013).<\/p>\n
A stretch of three consecutive contests with NCAA qualifiers continues on the road at Michigan State (Thursday, Jan. 15), before the Huskers continue a two-game road swing at Wisconsin (Wednesday, Jan. 21).<\/p>\n
The Huskers come back home to face 2025 NCAA qualifier Illinois (Saturday, Jan. 24), before capping the month of January with a home game against Northwestern (Wednesday, Jan. 28).<\/p>\n
February will feel like the NCAA Tournament every night for the Huskers, as all eight games for the Big Red during the month will feature head-to-head matchups with 2025 postseason teams. The formidable February begins on the road at NCAA qualifiers Ohio State (Sunday, Feb. 1) and Michigan (Wednesday, Feb. 4), before the Huskers come back to PBA to battle 2025 NCAA Sweet Sixteen participant Maryland (Saturday, Feb. 7).<\/p>\n
The Huskers return to the road to meet 2025 WBIT Champion Minnesota at Williams Arena in Minneapolis (Thursday, Feb. 12), before returning to Lincoln for their second meeting of the season with NCAA qualifier Iowa (Monday, Feb. 16).<\/p>\n
Nebraska then makes its longest road trip of the year to take on 2025 NCAA qualifiers Oregon (Thursday, Feb. 19) and Washington (Sunday, Feb. 22), before closing out the regular season against 2025 WNIT participant Rutgers (Saturday, Feb. 28).<\/p>\n
The 2026 TIAA Big Ten Women\u2019s Basketball Tournament returns to Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis (March 4-8), before the NCAA Selection Show announces a 68-team field on Sunday, March 15. The NCAA First Four will be held at campus sites (March 18-19), before the NCAA First and Second rounds continue at campus sites March 20-23. Eight-team NCAA Regionals will be held in Fort Worth, Texas and Sacramento, Calif., before PHX Arena in Phoenix hosts the 2026 NCAA Women\u2019s Final Four (April 3-5).<\/p>\n
Husker basketball fans can get their first look at the 2025-26 Huskers at Opening Night in the Railyard on Friday, Sept. 19 at 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
Fans wanting to be part of the action all year long, can purchase season tickets now at Huskers.com.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Courtesy Nebraska Athletics LINCOLN, Neb. (Nebraska Athletics) \u2014 Postseason-caliber teams will visit Pinnacle Bank Arena early and often…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,3474,217,3417,231,772,1544,3422,42261,1368,6135],"class_list":{"0":"post-291391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-big-ten-conference","10":"tag-college-basketball","11":"tag-huskers","12":"tag-ncaa","13":"tag-ncaa-basketball","14":"tag-ncaab","15":"tag-nebraska","16":"tag-pinnacle-bank-arena","17":"tag-schedule","18":"tag-womens-college-basketball"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115228834876361993","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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