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Big Ten release 2024-25 Ohio State women’s basketball conference schedule
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The first 18-team Big Ten conference schedule is live, with a February trip to California in store for the Buckeyes
College basketball season is fast approaching and Land-Grant Holy Land is getting you ready with a series of player previews. Before the season starts this fall, check back regularly for more player previews, schedule news, features, and more heading into the 2024-25 Ohio State women’s basketball season.
The college basketball season got one step closer to becoming a reality Thursday, when the Big Ten announced the women and men’s basketball schedules for the 2024-25 season. Ohio State women’s basketball’s chances for a back-to-back regular season conference crown grow more steep with big conference additions and a lot of time spent away from Columbus.
Top of mind with conference realignment’s been on the travel. For the Scarlet and Gray, they travel out west only once, with an early trip to Los Angeles in February against the UCLA Bruins on Feb. 5 and the USC Trojans Feb. 8. Last season, Ohio State got a leg up on the conference by scheduling both sides in their non-conference slate, only to fall to both teams.
Ohio State faces the other two new schools after the calendar flips to 2025. It starts in January, when the Oregon Ducks travel to Columbus on the 12th, giving new Buckeye guard Chance Gray the first stab at beating her former school.
Head coach Kevin McGuff welcomes his previous employers, the Washington Huskies, Feb. 2, the last game before heading to California.
In the basketball side of the Big Ten, each team plays each other in the conference, with only one two-game series for each team. The Buckeyes matched up with the Maryland Terrapins, starting the series on Jan. 23 in Columbus and ending the season on Mar. 2 in College Park, Maryland.
Ohio State had success against the Terrapins in the regular season last year, defeating them twice in the regular season. However, the postseason was a different story, with coach Brenda Frese’s Terrapins dominating the Buckeyes in the first round of the Big Ten tournament, winning 82-61.
The Buckeyes and Michigan Wolverines rivalry is one sacrifice made with realignment, with the two sides playing each other only once. This season it’s in Ann Arbor when Ohio State travels north on Jan. 8.
Other marquee matchups include a trip to Bloomington, Indiana to face the Indiana Hoosiers. Both sides lost program-shifting talent in Indiana’s Mackenzie Holmes and Ohio State’s Jacy Sheldon, giving this year’s matchup a lot of questions on where each side will be when the two play in the finals weeks of the season on Feb. 20.
Included in that travel are a pair of away games to end the season. Maryland ends the campaign but three days prior Ohio State is in East Lansing, Michigan to face the Michigan State Spartans. Adding intrigue to the game is playing against former Buckeye Emma Shumate, who transferred to Michigan State after getting less playing time in coach McGuff’s rotation.
Here’s the full 24-25 Big Ten schedule for the Buckeyes:
The non-conference schedule still isn’t final for the Buckeyes, but many opponents games against Ohio State. They include a previously announced game in San Fransisco against Stanford, home games against Bowling Green and Cleveland State and a trip to Athens for a matchup against the Ohio University Bobcats.
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ThomasCostello via our friends at Land-Grant Holy Land
Visit their fantastic blog and read the full article (and so much more) here
Photo by Michael Hickey/Getty Images
The first 18-team Big Ten conference schedule is live, with a February trip to California in store for the Buckeyes
College basketball season is fast approaching and Land-Grant Holy Land is getting you ready with a series of player previews. Before the season starts this fall, check back regularly for more player previews, schedule news, features, and more heading into the 2024-25 Ohio State women’s basketball season.
The college basketball season got one step closer to becoming a reality Thursday, when the Big Ten announced the women and men’s basketball schedules for the 2024-25 season. Ohio State women’s basketball’s chances for a back-to-back regular season conference crown grow more steep with big conference additions and a lot of time spent away from Columbus.
Top of mind with conference realignment’s been on the travel. For the Scarlet and Gray, they travel out west only once, with an early trip to Los Angeles in February against the UCLA Bruins on Feb. 5 and the USC Trojans Feb. 8. Last season, Ohio State got a leg up on the conference by scheduling both sides in their non-conference slate, only to fall to both teams.
Ohio State faces the other two new schools after the calendar flips to 2025. It starts in January, when the Oregon Ducks travel to Columbus on the 12th, giving new Buckeye guard Chance Gray the first stab at beating her former school.
Head coach Kevin McGuff welcomes his previous employers, the Washington Huskies, Feb. 2, the last game before heading to California.
In the basketball side of the Big Ten, each team plays each other in the conference, with only one two-game series for each team. The Buckeyes matched up with the Maryland Terrapins, starting the series on Jan. 23 in Columbus and ending the season on Mar. 2 in College Park, Maryland.
Ohio State had success against the Terrapins in the regular season last year, defeating them twice in the regular season. However, the postseason was a different story, with coach Brenda Frese’s Terrapins dominating the Buckeyes in the first round of the Big Ten tournament, winning 82-61.
The Buckeyes and Michigan Wolverines rivalry is one sacrifice made with realignment, with the two sides playing each other only once. This season it’s in Ann Arbor when Ohio State travels north on Jan. 8.
Other marquee matchups include a trip to Bloomington, Indiana to face the Indiana Hoosiers. Both sides lost program-shifting talent in Indiana’s Mackenzie Holmes and Ohio State’s Jacy Sheldon, giving this year’s matchup a lot of questions on where each side will be when the two play in the finals weeks of the season on Feb. 20.
Included in that travel are a pair of away games to end the season. Maryland ends the campaign but three days prior Ohio State is in East Lansing, Michigan to face the Michigan State Spartans. Adding intrigue to the game is playing against former Buckeye Emma Shumate, who transferred to Michigan State after getting less playing time in coach McGuff’s rotation.
Here’s the full 24-25 Big Ten schedule for the Buckeyes:
The non-conference schedule still isn’t final for the Buckeyes, but many opponents games against Ohio State. They include a previously announced game in San Fransisco against Stanford, home games against Bowling Green and Cleveland State and a trip to Athens for a matchup against the Ohio University Bobcats.
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