{"id":826401,"date":"2026-09-02T15:45:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T15:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/826401\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T15:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T15:45:15","slug":"jmu-womens-basketball-unveils-2026-27-non-conference-schedule-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/826401\/","title":{"rendered":"JMU women\u2019s basketball unveils 2026-27 non-conference schedule | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">JMU women\u2019s basketball unveiled its <a href=\"https:\/\/jmusports.com\/news\/2026\/9\/2\/womens-basketball-womens-basketball-releases-challenging-non-conference-slate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">non-conference schedule for the 2026-27 season<\/a> on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The schedule features four Power Four opponents, led off by two ACC in-state matchups in Virginia Tech on Nov. 8 and UVA on Nov. 19, both away. The trip to Blacksburg will be the teams\u2019 first since 2008.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Dukes will also renew in-state rivalries with George Mason on Nov. 21 and Liberty on Dec. 8.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Power Four slate is followed by SEC opponent Arkansas on Nov. 25 and Big Ten\u2019s Penn State on Dec. 2.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Dukes kick off their season on the road with the annual <a href=\"https:\/\/sunbeltsports.org\/news\/2026\/6\/23\/mens-basketball-sun-belt-mid-american-conferences-extend-mac-sbc-challenge-through-2028-29-season.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MAC-SBC challenge<\/a> against Miami (Ohio).<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">JMU\u2019s non-conference slate also features home matchups with Navy on Veterans Day and ECU on Nov. 15.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">JMU is coming off a 26-9 season overall, which ended with a first-round exit in the NCAA tournament to No. 5-seeded Kentucky.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Contact the sports desk at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breezejmu.org\/sports\/jmu-women-s-basketball-unveils-2026-27-non-conference-schedule\/mailto:breezesports@gmail.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">breezesports@gmail.com<\/a>. For more women&#8217;s basketball coverage, follow @TheBreezeSports on X and Instagram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JMU women\u2019s basketball unveiled its non-conference schedule for the 2026-27 season on Wednesday.\u00a0 The schedule features four Power&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":826402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[98271,4473,13385,13383,7,217,5190,5189,98269,7456,231,98270,772,5187,5193,12739,5188,1544,35607,38289,98272],"class_list":["post-826401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-arkansas-womens-basketball","tag-atlantic-coast-conference","tag-atlantic-coast-conference-football","tag-atlantic-coast-conference-teams","tag-basketball","tag-college-basketball","tag-former-southern-conference-teams","tag-former-southern-intercollegiate-athletic-association-teams","tag-jmu-womens-basketball","tag-march-madness","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-appreances","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaa-division-i","tag-ncaa-division-i-fbs-football","tag-ncaa-division-i-fbs-football-seasons","tag-ncaa-division-i-fbs-football-teams","tag-ncaab","tag-penn-state-womens-basketball","tag-uva-womens-basketball","tag-vt-womens-basketball"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826401","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=826401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}