Big Ten Network Announces 2020 Men’s Non-Conference Basketball Schedule

Big Ten Network Announces 2020 Men’s Non-Conference Basketball Schedule

Over 40 non-conference games scheduled to air in November and December

 

CHICAGO, Ill. – The Big Ten Network today announced its 2020 non-conference television schedule for Big Ten men’s basketball, featuring over 40 games throughout the next three weeks.

 

The schedule opens tomorrow at noon ET with six consecutive games, 12 hours of action and four teams ranked inside the AP Top 25 when Nebraska, No. 8 Illinois, No. 5 Iowa, No. 13 Michigan State, Indiana and No. 7 Wisconsin make their season debuts. Additional non-conference highlights include Notre Dame at No. 13 Michigan State, Iowa State at No. 5 Iowa, Nebraska at No. 11 Creighton and Seton Hall at Penn State.

 

Bringing the sights and sounds of Big Ten Basketball to life will be the veteran play-by-play voices of Kevin Kugler, Brandon Gaudin, Dave Revsine, Lisa Byington, Mike Hall, Jeff Levering and Chris Vosters. A versatile lineup of analysts will accompany that group, including John Beilein, Robbie Hummel, Stephen Bardo, Mike DeCourcy, Andy Katz, Len Elmore, Shon Morris, Christy Winters-Scott and others.

 

All basketball programming can be streamed via the web, smartphones, tablets and connected devices on the Fox Sports app.

 

Scheduling notes: Games on Saturday, Dec. 5 and Saturday, Dec. 12, will be set following the confirmation of that same date’s corresponding Big Ten football games. The Big Ten Network’s men’s and women’s conference basketball schedules will be unveiled at a later date.

 

2020-21 Men’s Basketball Non-Conference Television Schedule:

 

Date	Visiting Team		Home Team	TV	Time (ET)
November 25, 2020	McNeese State	at	Nebraska	BTN	12:00 PM
November 25, 2020	North Carolina A&T	at	Illinois	BTN	2:00 PM
November 25, 2020	North Carolina Central	at	Iowa	BTN	4:00 PM
November 25, 2020	Eastern Michigan	at	Michigan State	BTN	6:00 PM
November 25, 2020	Tennessee Tech	at	Indiana	BTN	8:00 PM
November 25, 2020	Eastern Illinois	at	Wisconsin	BTN	10:00 PM
November 26, 2020	Chicago State	at	Illinois	BTN	12:00 PM
November 26, 2020	Nevada	at	Nebraska	BTN	2:00 PM
November 27, 2020	Ohio	at	Illinois	BTN	1:00 PM
November 27, 2020	Navy	at	Maryland	BTN	3:00 PM
November 27, 2020	Southern	at	Iowa	BTN	5:00 PM
November 27, 2020	Fairleigh Dickinson	at	Rutgers	BTN	7:00 PM
November 27, 2020	Arkansas-Pine Bluff	at	Wisconsin	BTN	9:00 PM
November 28, 2020	North Dakota State	at	Nebraska	BTN	12:00 PM
November 28, 2020	Loyola Marymount	at	Minnesota	BTN	6:00 PM
November 28, 2020	Notre Dame	at	Michigan State	BTN	8:00 PM
November 29, 2020	UMass-Lowell	at	Ohio State	BTN	12:00 PM
November 29, 2020	Mount St. Mary’s	at	Maryland	BTN	2:00 PM
November 29, 2020	Hofstra	at	Rutgers	BTN	4:00 PM
November 29, 2020	Oakland	at	Michigan	BTN	6:00 PM
November 30, 2020	North Dakota State	at	Minnesota	BTN	8:00 PM
December 1, 2020	Oakland	at	Purdue	BTN	3:00 PM
December 1, 2020	Green Bay	at	Wisconsin	BTN	5:00 PM
December 1, 2020	Monmouth	at	Maryland	BTN	7:00 PM
December 1, 2020	South Dakota	at	Nebraska	BTN	9:00 PM
December 2, 2020	Morehead State	at	Ohio State	BTN	5:00 PM
December 2, 2020	Ball State	at	Michigan	BTN	7:00 PM
December 2, 2020	Arkansas-Pine Bluff	at	Northwestern	BTN	9:00 PM
December 3, 2020	Western Illinois	at	Iowa	BTN	8:00 PM
December 4, 2020	George Mason	at	Maryland	BTN	3:00 PM
December 4, 2020	Detroit	at	Michigan State	BTN	5:00 PM
December 4, 2020	Valparaiso	at	Purdue	BTN	7:00 PM
December 4, 2020	North Dakota	at	Minnesota	BTN	9:00 PM
December 5, 2020	TBD	at	Illinois	BTN or BTN+	TBD
December 5, 2020	Chicago State	at	Northwestern	BTN or BTN+	TBD
December 5, 2020	Alabama A&M	at	Ohio State	BTN or BTN+	TBD
December 6, 2020	Florida A&M	at	Nebraska	BTN	2:00 PM
December 6, 2020	UCF	at	Michigan	BTN	4:00 PM
December 6, 2020	Western Michigan	at	Michigan State	BTN	6:00 PM
December 6, 2020	Seton Hall	at	Penn State	BTN	8:00 PM
December 11, 2020	Nebraska	at	Creighton	BTN	7:00 PM
December 11, 2020	Iowa State	at	Iowa	BTN	9:00 PM
December 12, 2020	Indiana State	at	Purdue	BTN or BTN+	TBD
December 12, 2020	TBD	at	Wisconsin	BTN or BTN+	TBD
December 13, 2020	North Alabama	at	Indiana	BTN	TBD
December 13, 2020	Cleveland State	at	Ohio State	BTN	TBD
December 13, 2020	Penn State	at	Michigan	BTN	TBD
December 14, 2020	Rutgers	at	Maryland	BTN	TBD
December 16, 2020	Northern Iowa	at	Wisconsin	BTN	TBD
Dec. 21 or 22, 2020	La Salle	at	Maryland	BTN	TBD

 

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