The league will maintain a 20-game schedule for men’s basketball. In women’s basketball, there are 18 Big Ten games.

Among other notable matchups, the Michigan men will play reigning Big Ten regular-season champion Purdue, which returns three starters from last year’s national runner-up team, at Mackey Arena on Friday, Jan. 24 and at Crisler Center on Tuesday, Feb. 11. The Michigan State men will face Purdue once — at home on Tuesday, Feb. 18.

The Big Ten announced the full 18-game conference schedule for the upcoming 2024-25 season on Thursday. Indiana begins conference play on Dec. 7 at Penn State.

Purdue's Big Ten schedule includes home and road contests against Rutgers, Michigan and Indiana and single-game matchups with the other 14 league teams, making for 20 of Purdue's 31 regular season contests. Sam King covers sports for the Journal & Courier. Email him at [email protected] and follow him on X and Instagram @samueltking.

The Washington women’s basketball team won’t be able to ease into its first Big Ten season. The conference schedule makers didn't do them any favors with its opener.

Ohio State women's basketball team is going into the 2024-25 season as the reigning Big Ten regular-season champions.

The Big Ten conference announced the full slate of league games for the 2024-25 season on Thursday. The Indiana women's basketball team will open conference play with a game at Penn State on Dec. 7. Highlights of the 18-game schedule include games at Assembly Hall against new league members UCLA (Jan.

While the Big 10 opponents were already known, the dates on which both the men’s and women’s basketball teams would be facing those teams weren’t known until Thursday. The Big 10 released the dates of this coming season’s conference games,