BIG EAST Publicizes 2025-26 Ladies’s Basketball Schedule

CINCINNATI – The BIG EAST Conference introduced the 2025-26 girls’s basketball schedule on Friday. The convention will play a 20-game convention schedule that contains 110 video games in a double round-robin format for the primary time since 2022-23.

Xavier opens its BIG EAST schedule on Sunday, Nov. 30 vs the defending NCAA Champion UConn Huskies.

 

BROADCAST INFORMATION

• The upcoming season marks the primary of a six-year media settlement, which is able to span from 2025-26 via 2030-31, encompassing protection on FOX Sports (FOX, FS1), NBC Sports (NBC, Peacock), and TNT Sports (TNT, TBS, truTV and Max). The settlement will present main nationwide broadcast, cable, and direct-to-consumer streaming protection of BIG EAST girls’s and males’s basketball video games. ESPN+ may also stream a minimal of 75 girls’s basketball video games. 

 

SCHEDULE NOTES

• Xavier will play seven residence video games at Cintas Center, together with 5 straight to open the 2025-26 season. The Musketeers will play a complete of 17 residence video games throughout the season (10 residence BIG EAST video games; seven non-conference video games).
• Xavier will play groups from 5 completely different leagues throughout non-conference motion: Mid-American (3), Northeast (3), Horizon, Big 12 and Atlantic 10. The Musketeers non-conference opponents mixed to make two postseason appearances final season.
• The Musketeers journey to Cincinnati on Sunday, Dec. 7 for the Skyline Chili Crosstown Shootout. Xavier seems to be to snap its two-game shedding streak within the collection and choose up its first win at Fifth Third Arena since Dec. 11, 2016 (W, 72-61).
• Xavier will play two opponents for the primary time in program historical past in New Haven and Long Island.
• Xavier will probably be enjoying Kent State for the second time in as many seasons.
• The Musketeers are renewing their rivalry with Dayton. The two groups are enjoying for the primary time since Feb. 7, 2013.

 

ABOUT THE MUSKETEERS

• Xavier returns six letterwinners from the 2023-24 season, highlighted by Meri Kanerva who was named to the All-BIG EAST Freshman Team. The guard led the workforce in scoring (11.2) and assists (3.4).
• The Musketeers additionally welcome again starter Petra Oborilova. She averaged 4.2 factors and a couple of.8 rebounds per sport, whereas flattening 33 three pointers (ranked third on the workforce).
• Third-year head coach Billi Chambers welcomes eight newcomers to the workforce this summer season, together with 4 transfers: Savannah White (Indiana State), Mya Moore (Cleveland State), Audia Young (Auburn) and Mariyah Noel (Ole Miss).
• Xavier additionally welcomes 4 freshman to this system: Penda Dieng (Louga, Senegal), Denise Neves (Lisbon, Portugal), Payton Richards (Lake Travis, Texas) and Kodee Williams-Sefo (Auckland, New Zealand).
• All instructed, the Musketeers could have gamers from eight completely different international locations on the 2025-26 roster.

 

SEASON TICKET INFORMATION

• Buy season tickets now at GoXavier.com/Tickets. Single-game tickets will go on sale later within the fall.
• For extra data on season tickets, followers can contact the Xavier Athletics Ticket Office at (513) 745-3411 x7 or [email protected]