The Big Ten Conference announced the confirmed conference matchups for the 2026-2027 women's basketball season on June 8, 2026, revealing the home and away opponents for all participating programs.
Unlike the men's basketball schedule which features 20 conference games, the women's teams will play an 18-game conference slate, according to reports from 247Sports and Yahoo Sports.
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The schedule structure limits teams to just one home-and-home opponent, while the remaining 16 conference teams are split into single-play home or away matchups.
UCLA's Schedule Highlights
Defending national champion UCLA will play its sole home-and-home series against cross-town rival USC, staging one game at Pauley Pavilion and the other at the Galen Center.
The Bruins went undefeated in Big Ten play last season but enter the upcoming year reloading their roster after losing six players to the WNBA draft.
UCLA will host Illinois, Northwestern, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Penn State, Minnesota, and Nebraska at home, according to 247Sports.
The home schedule features three programs that finished in the top five of the conference standings last season, namely Michigan, Ohio State, and Minnesota.
The road schedule for the Bruins includes trips to Indiana, Purdue, Iowa, Wisconsin, Maryland, Rutgers, Washington, and Oregon.
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The travel itinerary features long-distance trips to Rutgers and Maryland alongside shorter road stretches against former Pac-12 peers Washington and Oregon.
