2026-27 Big Ten Women’s Basketball Television Schedule
ROSEMONT, Ill. – The Big Ten Conference unveiled start times and television designations for its 2026-27 women’s basketball season on Tuesday, with all 162 conference games to be nationally produced and distributed for the 13th consecutive season. The conference also announced the times and network assignments for select nonconference games.
The 2026-27 regular season slate will feature eight Big Ten matchups on a broadcast network, seven on FOX and one on NBC. The championship game of the 2027 Allstate Big Ten Women’s Basketball Tournament will air March 7 on CBS for the fourth straight season. It will also be streamed live on Paramount+.
Once again, Big Ten squads will play an 18-game conference schedule with teams playing one school in a home-and-away series while facing 16 teams once. Of the single-play opponents, teams will play eight at home and eight on the road.
Conference action opens Saturday, December 5 and picks up in earnest on Tuesday, December 29, culminating in the 2027 Allstate Big Ten Women’s Basketball Tournament, slated for March 3-7, 2027, at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Big Ten women’s basketball will make its television debut on FS1 when Michigan hosts UConn at 6:30 p.m. ET on Thursday, November 5, the first of 13 games slated for FS1 throughout the season.
Big Ten Network will carry 61 regular season matchups, with coverage beginning Sunday, November 8 as USC welcomes Utah State at 8 p.m. ET. Games will also be available on FOX One.
In its third year providing coverage for Big Ten women’s basketball, NBC will air the clash between Ohio State and USC at 4 p.m. ET on Sunday, February 21.
NBCUniversal’s direct-to-consumer platform, Peacock, will carry Big Ten games live for the fourth consecutive season. The 27-game lineup will tip Wednesday, November 18 at 8 p.m. ET when Kansas visits Minnesota.
For the fifth season in a row, the FOX broadcast network will televise Big Ten women’s basketball games. The 10-contest slate opens Saturday, December 5 at 2 p.m. ET with Michigan meeting Oklahoma in the Women’s Champions Classic at Barclays Center. FOX and FS1 will air 23 games in total throughout the season.
Peacock will televise the opening three games of the 2027 Allstate Big Ten Women’s Basketball Tournament, with the second-round, quarterfinal and semifinal games on Thursday, Friday and Saturday slated for Big Ten Network. CBS will carry the championship game on Sunday.
All Big Ten Network, FOX and FS1 on-air games will also be streamed nationwide via the web, smartphones, tablets and connected devices on FOX One, while the game televised on CBS will also be available for live streaming on Paramount+. NBC’s broadcast will also be available for live streaming on Peacock. The remaining contests will air on Peacock and NBCSN.
B1G+ will have a robust slate of additional games available for streaming on the platform. The full schedule is available online at bigtenplus.com.