{"id":714942,"date":"2026-04-21T02:23:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T02:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/714942\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T02:23:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T02:23:03","slug":"report-iu-basketball-to-host-eastern-illinois-in-2026-27-season-opener-the-daily-hoosier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/714942\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: IU basketball to host Eastern Illinois in 2026-27 season opener \u2013 The Daily Hoosier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Year two of the Darian DeVries era will begin with a home game against Eastern Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>Indiana will host the Panthers on Monday, Nov. 2 according to a report by Alex Rosinksi.<\/p>\n<p>EIU is coached by former IU basketball player Marty Simmons.<\/p>\n<p>IU leads the all-time series 3-0, with the last meeting coming in 2024-25.<\/p>\n<p>Simmons and the Panthers finished 13-20 last season.\u00a0 They were ranked No. 324 in KenPom.<\/p>\n<p>This is the fifth reported game on the 2026-27 schedule, and the third home game against a low or mid-major teams.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what we know so far:<\/p>\n<p>2026-27<\/p>\n<p>Nov. 2, 2026:\u00a0 vs. Eastern Illinois, at Bloomington<\/p>\n<p>Nov. 5, 2026:\u00a0 vs. Bellarmine, at Bloomington<\/p>\n<p>Nov. 9, 2026:\u00a0 vs. Syracuse, at Gainbridge Fieldhouse, Indianapolis<\/p>\n<p>Nov. 27, 2026:\u00a0 vs. Bowling Green, at Bloomington<\/p>\n<p>Dec. 27, 2026: vs. Kentucky, at Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis (ticketed as IU home game)<\/p>\n<p>For complete coverage of IU basketball,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailyhoosier.com\/the-latest-iu-basketball-news-and-game-coverage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.thedailyhoosier.com\/the-latest-iu-basketball-news-and-game-coverage\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1776812504234000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2QlpjhJqmvf3ExyUCS5ICU\">GO HERE<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Hoosier\u00a0\u2013\u201cWhere Indiana fans assemble when they\u2019re not at Assembly\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Year two of the Darian DeVries era will begin with a home game against Eastern Illinois. Indiana will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7],"class_list":{"0":"post-714942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-basketball"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116440321815116727","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714942","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=714942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}