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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Purdue women’s basketball team received its league matchups for the 2024-25 season, as the Big Ten Conference unveiled the home and away designations for its first 18-game season with 18 teams.
Remaining at 18 league games for the sixth straight season, the Boilermakers will face 16 single-play teams, split eight at Mackey Arena and eight on the road, with one home-and-away series.
HOME AND AWAY
Indiana
HOME ONLY
Maryland
Michigan
Minnesota
Nebraska
Northwestern
Wisconsin
UCLA
USC
AWAY ONLY
Illinois
Iowa
Michigan State
Ohio State
Penn State
Rutgers
Washington
Oregon
SCHEDULE NOTES
• Purdue will play out on the west coast for the second straight year, after traveling to UCLA to start the 2023-24 season.
• The Boilermakers will meet Oregon for the first time in history.
• Purdue is 3-1 all-time against Washington with three wins in Mackey Arena, including two in the NCAA Tournament. The Boilermakers dropped their only matchup with the Huskies at Hec Edmundson Arena in December 2007.
• Purdue played at Washington’s Hec Edmundson Arena in the 2004 Sweet 16 during head coach Katie Gearlds‘ freshman season.
• After opening the year at UCLA last year, Purdue is tied 2-2 all-time with the Bruins. UCLA’s lone visit to Mackey Arena was in the first and second rounds of the 2006 NCAA Tournament. Purdue won the second round 61-54, behind a 15-point, 8-rebound, 6-assist performance from Gearlds as a junior.
• USC will make its first trip to Mackey Arena, after the previous matchup coming in 2017 at the Rainbow Wahine Classic in Honolulu.
• The Boilermakers will travel to Illinois and Ohio State for the first time since 2022-23 when they knocked off the No. 22 Illini and No. 2 Buckeyes in back-to-back road contests.
The 2023-24 Purdue women’s basketball season is presented by Purdue Global, Purdue University’s online educational solution for working adults.
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