WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Big Ten Conference has announced the 2025-26 men’s basketball conference schedule, featuring a 20-game slate for the ninth straight season. The announcement completes Purdue’s schedule.
Times and TV designations will be released at a later date.
The Boilermakers will once again open Big Ten play prior to the holiday break. Purdue opens league play on the road for the third straight season when it heads to Piscataway, New Jersey, for the third straight year, to face Rutgers on Dec. 2. After a home game with Iowa State on Dec. 6, the Boilermakers finish the initial stretch by hosting Minnesota on Dec. 10.
In the previous eight years under the current format, Purdue started 2-0 just twice (2017-18; 2022-23).
Following their final three non-conference games against Marquette, Auburn and Kent State, the Boilermakers will then resume conference play, opening the new calendar year on Jan. 3, by traveling to Wisconsin. Following the trip to Madison, Purdue will host three straight home games against Washington (Jan. 7), Penn State (Jan. 10) and Iowa (Jan. 14).
Washington will visit Mackey Arena for the first time.
The Boilermakers then begin their most-difficult stretch of the conference season, going on the road for six of their next eight games, beginning with their first journey to the Los Angeles schools to face USC (Jan. 17) and UCLA (Jan. 20). Purdue will return home to face Illinois on Jan. 24, before going on the road to Indiana (Jan. 27) and Maryland (Feb. 1).
Oregon will visit Mackey Arena for the first time since Dec. 1987, when the Ducks visit on Feb. 7.
Purdue will close out the stretch at Nebraska on Feb. 10, and Iowa on Feb. 14.
Purdue returns home for a grueling three-game homestand by hosting Michigan on Feb. 17, Indiana on Feb. 20, and Michigan State on Feb. 26.
Purdue travels to Ohio State on March 1, and Northwestern on March 4, before hosting Wisconsin on Senior Day on March 7.
The Big Ten Tournament will be held at the United Center in Chicago, from March 11 to 15.
Mackey Arena has been sold out for 89 straight games dating to the 2018-19 season and the Boilermakers are 91-14 against Big Ten teams in Mackey Arena since the 2014-15 season.
Purdue is ranked in the top three of almost every “early” top-25 national polls, returning four starters and welcoming in several high-profile newcomers from last year’s team that went 24-12 overall and reached the Sweet 16.
Season tickets are sold out, but single-game tickets will go on sale in early, mid-October.