Big Ten Releases 2025-26 Women’s Basketball Television Schedule

Big Ten Releases 2025-26 Women’s Basketball Television Schedule

All 162 conference games to be nationally produced and distributed for the 12th consecutive season

2025-26 Big Ten Women’s Basketball Television Schedule

ROSEMONT, Ill. – The Big Ten Conference released the start times and television designations for its 2025-26 women’s basketball schedule on Tuesday, with all 162 conference games to be nationally produced and distributed for the 12th consecutive season. The conference also unveiled times and network assignments for select nonconference games as part of Tuesday’s announcement.

The 2025-26 regular season campaign will feature 11 Big Ten matchups on a broadcast network, nine on FOX and two on NBC. The championship game of the Allstate Big Ten Women’s Basketball Tournament will air March 8 on CBS for the third consecutive season. It also will be streamed live on Paramount+.

The Big Ten, which sent a record-setting 12 teams to the NCAA Tournament a season ago, including UCLA’s first trip in program history to the Final Four, features an 18-game conference schedule. Teams will play one school in a home-and-away series while facing 16 teams once. Of the single-play opponents, member institutions will play eight at home and eight on the road.

Conference action begins Dec. 6 and picks up in earnest on Dec. 28, culminating in the 33rd Allstate Big Ten Women’s Basketball Tournament, slated for March 4-8, 2026, at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.

Big Ten women’s basketball will make its 2025-26 debut on FS1 when UCLA takes on Oklahoma at 10:30 p.m. ET on Monday, Nov. 10, the first of 14 games set for FS1 throughout the season.

The Big Ten Network will carry 61 regular season matchups, with coverage starting Nov. 13 when Iowa hosts Drake at 8:30 p.m. ET. Games also will be available on the FOX Sports App.

In its second year providing coverage for Big Ten women’s basketball, NBC will show two games this season, leading off with Michigan challenging Notre Dame on Saturday, Nov. 15 at 4 p.m. ET.

NBCUniversal’s direct-to-consumer platform, Peacock, will carry Big Ten games live for the third consecutive season. Tipoff is scheduled for 2 p.m. ET between UCLA and Penn State on New Year’s Eve.

For the fourth straight season, the FOX broadcast network will televise Big Ten women’s basketball games. The nine-contest slate opens Saturday, Nov. 15 at 9 p.m. ET as USC welcomes South Carolina to Los Angeles. FOX and FS1 will air 23 games in total throughout the season.

Peacock will televise the opening three games of the 2026 Allstate Big Ten Women’s Basketball Tournament, with second-round, quarterfinal and semifinal games on Thursday, Friday and Saturday slated for the Big Ten Network. CBS will broadcast the championship game on Sunday.

All Big Ten Network, FOX and FS1 on-air games will also be streamed nationwide via the web, smartphones, tablets and connected devices on the FOX Sports App, while the game televised on CBS will also be available for live streaming on Paramount+. NBC’s broadcasts will also be available for live streaming on Peacock, while contests exclusive to Peacock will only be available on the platform.

B1G+ will have a robust slate of additional games available for streaming on the platform. The full schedule is available online at bigtenplus.com.