WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Big Ten conference office revealed the 2026 fall volleyball schedule, which features Maryland and Wisconsin at home over Purdue’s Big Ten opening weekend and at Indiana for the regular-season finale.
The Boilermakers will have no more than three consecutive matches at home or on the road during the course of the season.
In October, the Boilermakers will have a stretch with five of seven matches in West Lafayette, which includes USC, Illinois and Minnesota at home during the span and Iowa and Nebraska on the road.
Purdue will have one of the toughest closes to Big Ten play, scheduled for the most road matches of any team in the league with five of the last six away before the inaugural Big Ten Volleyball Tournament begins in Fishers, Indiana. Meanwhile, the regular-season finale at Indiana will mark the second consecutive year the rivals will meet in the final match before postseason, and moreover marks the first time the showdown has come in Bloomington since 1977.
The Big Ten season format was moved from the previously allotted 20-match schedule to 17 and a single round-robin format that ends before Thanksgiving to accommodate the debut of the conference tournament, which will begin Friday, November 20. The championship match will be played Wednesday, November 25. The tournament will take place at Fishers Event Center, just a short hour drive from Purdue.
Five of Purdue’ s non-conference matches have already been released, a lineup that includes a neutral site showdown in South Dakota against a fellow 2025 AVCA top-10 final poll team in Creighton (8/28) for the season-opener, followed immediately by the reigning national champion Texas A&M at home (9/1) as part of a two-match Big Ten/SEC Challenge in West Lafayette (joined by Georgia on 9/2). The Boilermakers will also travel to the Bahamas for the first event of its kind taking place outside the United States (9/12-13) for the Paradise Invitational. While there, Purdue will face Houston and another top-11 team in either SMU or Kentucky.
Television selections and the remainder of Purdue’s non-conference slate will be announced at later dates.
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Coming off arguably the best season in program history, a Regional Finals appearance and third place Big Ten finish behind a 24-7 (15-5 Big Ten) record, the Boilermakers return all three All-Americans for the upcoming fall season, and four of its five program record-setting All-Big Ten honorees, which ties for the most in the league with Nebraska and USC.
Additionally, Purdue boasts eight freshmen on the fall roster (four redshirt, four true), tying for second-most in the league. The Boilermakers also welcomed two transfers in sophomore outside Lameen "Mimi" Mambu (previous school: Georgia Tech) senior middle blocker Kate Hansen (previous schools: Clemson and Texas Tech).