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<a href="https://assets.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltca750cef518bc6e4/blt28be9e72efb46b5c/2024-25 Big Ten Women's Basketball TV Schedule.pdf" target="_self">2024-25 Big Ten Women’s Basketball Television Schedule</a>ROSEMONT, Ill. – The Big Ten Conference released the start times and television assignments for its 2024-25 women’s basketball schedule on Wednesday, with all 162 conference games to be nationally produced and distributed for the 11th consecutive season. The conference also unveiled times and network designations for selected non-conference games hosted by Big Ten schools as part of Wednesday’s announcement.This schedule marks the most coverage on nationally distributed platforms in Big Ten women’s basketball history. Twelve Big Ten matchups, including eight regular season games, will also be televised on a broadcast platform via NBC or FOX, the most in conference history.For the second time in as many years, the Big Ten Women’s Basketball Tournament championship will be televised on a broadcast platform, with CBS airing the game on March 9. It will also be streamed live on Paramount+.The Big Ten, which sent a record-tying seven teams to the NCAA Tournament a season ago, including Iowa’s second straight appearance in the National Championship game, features an 18-game women’s basketball conference slate. Teams will play one school in a home-and-away series while facing 16 teams once. Of the single-play opponents, member institutions will play eight at home and eight on the road.Conference play tips off on Dec. 7 and picks up in earnest on Dec. 28, culminating in the 32nd Big Ten Women’s Basketball Tournament, scheduled for March 5-9, 2025, at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.Big Ten women’s basketball will make its 2024-25 debut on FS1 with a doubleheader, starting with Duke visiting Maryland at 1 p.m. ET on Sunday, Nov. 10. The action continues at 7 p.m. ET with Notre Dame at Purdue.The Big Ten Network’s coverage also begins on Nov. 10, when reigning WBIT champion Illinois hosts Marquette at 8 p.m. ET. Women’s basketball coverage on BTN continues later that night at 10 p.m. ET with Oregon welcoming Baylor to Matthew Knight Arena.For the third straight season, FOX will televise Big Ten women’s basketball games. Its nine-game slate opens with a Saturday, Dec. 7 matchup between Iowa and Tennessee at 7 p.m. ET inside the Barclays Center.After its inaugural year providing coverage for Big Ten women’s basketball, NBC will show three games this season, leading off with Notre Dame at USC on Saturday, Nov. 23 at 4 p.m. ET.NBCUniversal’s direct-to-consumer platform, Peacock, will carry Big Ten games live for the second consecutive season. Tipoff is scheduled for 3 p.m. ET between Indiana and Iowa on Sunday, Jan. 12.Peacock will televise the opening three games of the 2025 Big Ten Women’s Basketball Tournament on Wednesday, with second-round, quarterfinal and semifinal games on Thursday, Friday and Saturday slated for the Big Ten Network. CBS will broadcast 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 the FOX Sports App, while the game televised on CBS will also be available for live streaming on Paramount+. NBC’s broadcasts will also be available for live streaming on Peacock, while contests exclusive to Peacock will only be available on the platform.B1G+ will have a robust slate of additional games available for streaming on the platform. The full schedule is available online at <a href="https://www.bigtenplus.com/en-int/page/home">bigtenplus.com</a>.

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ROSEMONT, Ill. -&nbsp;The Big Ten Conference recently announced the complete list of women’s and men’s basketball student-athletes scheduled to attend the 2024 Big Ten Basketball Media Days presented by TIAA.The two-day event will be held on October 2-3 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Ill. Coaches and student-athletes from the conference’s 18 women’s basketball programs will be featured on Wednesday, with the men’s programs to take center stage on Thursday.The Big Ten Network will provide live coverage for both days, beginning at 10 a.m. ET/9 a.m. CT/7 a.m. PT.2024 Big Ten Basketball Media Days Attendees<table><colgroup data-width='908'><col style="width:27.533%"/><col style="width:35.1322%"/><col style="width:37.33480000000001%"/></colgroup><thead><tr><th></th><th>Women</th><th>Men</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Illinois</td><td>Head Coach Shauna Green</td><td>Head Coach Brad Underwood</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Adalia McKenzie, Sr., G</td><td>Kylan Boswell, Jr., G</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Makira Cook, 5th Yr., G</td><td>Ty Rodgers, Jr., G/F</td></tr><tr><td>Indiana</td><td>Head Coach Teri Moren</td><td>Head Coach Mike Woodson</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Sydney Parrish, Grad., G</td><td>Trey Galloway, Sr.+, G</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Chloe Moore-McNeil, Grad., G</td><td>Myles Rice, R-So., G</td></tr><tr><td>Iowa</td><td>Head Coach Jan Jensen</td><td>Head Coach Fran McCaffery</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Lucy Olsen, Sr., G</td><td>Owen Freeman, So., F</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Hannah Stuelke, Jr., F</td><td>Payton Sandfort, Sr., F</td></tr><tr><td>Maryland</td><td>Head Coach Brenda Frese</td><td>Head Coach Kevin Willard</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Shyanne Sellers, Sr., G</td><td>Selton Miguel, 5th Yr., G</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Christina Dalce, Sr., F</td><td>Julian Reese, Sr., F</td></tr><tr><td>Michigan</td><td>Head Coach Kim Barnes Arico</td><td>Head Coach Dusty May</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Jordan Hobbs, Sr., G</td><td>Vlad Goldin, Grad., C</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Greta Kampschroeder, Sr., G</td><td>Danny Wolf, Jr., F/C</td></tr><tr><td>Michigan State</td><td>Head Coach Robyn Fralick</td><td>Head Coach Tom Izzo</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Julia Ayrault, Grad., G</td><td>Jaden Akins, Sr., G </td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Theryn Hallock, Jr., G</td><td>Xavier Booker, So., F</td></tr><tr><td>Minnesota</td><td>Head Coach Dawn Plitzuweit</td><td>Head Coach Ben Johnson</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Mara Braun, Jr., G</td><td>Parker Fox, R-Sr., F</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Amaya Battle, Jr., G</td><td>Dawson Garcia, Sr., F</td></tr><tr><td>Nebraska</td><td>Head Coach Amy Wiliams</td><td>Head Coach Fred Hoiberg</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Alexis Markowski, Sr., C/F</td><td>Juwan Gary, Sr., F</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Natalie Potts, So., F</td><td>Brice Williams, Sr., G</td></tr><tr><td>Northwestern</td><td>Head Coach Joe McKeown</td><td>Head Coach Chris Collins</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Melannie Daley, Sr., G</td><td>Brooks Barnhizer, Sr., G</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Caroline Lau, Jr., G</td><td>Ty Berry, Grad., G</td></tr><tr><td>Ohio State</td><td>Head Coach Kevin McGuff</td><td>Head Coach Jake Diebler</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Taylor Thierry, Sr., G/F</td><td>Meechie Johnson Jr., Sr., G </td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Madison Greene, Grad., G</td><td>Bruce Thornton, Jr., G</td></tr><tr><td>Oregon</td><td>Head Coach Kelly Graves</td><td>Head Coach Dana Altman</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Deja Kelly, Grad., G</td><td>Brandon Angel, Sr., F</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Phillipina Kyei, Sr., C</td><td>TJ Bamba, Sr., G</td></tr><tr><td>Penn State</td><td>Head Coach Carolyn Kieger</td><td>Head Coach Mike Rhoades</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Alli Campbell, Grad., G</td><td>Ace Baldwin Jr., Sr.+, G</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Jayla Oden, Sr., G</td><td>Puff Johnson, Sr.+, G/F</td></tr><tr><td>Purdue</td><td>Head Coach Katie Gearlds</td><td>Head Coach Matt Painter</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Rashunda Jones, So., G</td><td>Fletcher Loyer, Jr., G</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Sophie Swanson, So., G</td><td>Braden Smith, Jr., G</td></tr><tr><td>Rutgers</td><td>Head Coach Coquese Washington</td><td>Head Coach Steve Pikiell</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Destiny Adams, Sr., G/F</td><td>Ace Bailey, Fr., G/F</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Kiyomi McMiller, Fr., G</td><td>Dylan Harper, Fr., G</td></tr><tr><td>UCLA</td><td>Head Coach Cori Close</td><td>Head Coach Mick Cronin</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Lauren Betts, Jr., C</td><td>Dylan Andrews, Jr., G</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Kiki Rice, Jr., G</td><td>Kobe Johnson, Sr., G</td></tr><tr><td>USC</td><td>Head Coach Lindsay Gottlieb</td><td>Head Coach Eric Musselman</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>JuJu Watkins, So., G</td><td>Desmond Claude, Jr., G</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Kiki Iriafen, Grad., F</td><td>Saint Thomas, Grad., F</td></tr><tr><td>Washington</td><td>Head Coach Tina Langley</td><td>Head Coach Danny Sprinkle </td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Dalayah Daniels, Sr., F</td><td>Mekhi Mason, Jr., G</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Elle Ladine, Jr., G</td><td>Great Osobor, Sr., F</td></tr><tr><td>Wisconsin</td><td>Head Coach Marisa Moseley</td><td>Head Coach Greg Gard</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Serah Williams, Jr., F</td><td>John Blackwell, So., G</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Halle Douglass, Grad., G</td><td>Max Klesmit, Sr., G</td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

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ROSEMONT, Ill. – In its inaugural year as a member of the Big Ten Conference, USC has been voted as the preseason Big Ten women's basketball favorite by both the league’s 18 head coaches and a select media panel, the conference office announced Thursday. The coaches and media also chose Trojan sophomore guard JuJu Watkins as the 2024-25 Big Ten Preseason Player of the Year.The coaches and media preseason polls mirrored one another, with UCLA ranked second and Ohio State slated third. Maryland claimed the fourth spot and Indiana rounded out the top five.Watkins was a unanimous selection for the media’s Preseason All-Big Ten Team. She was joined by her USC teammate Kiki Iriafen, Iowa’s Hannah Stuelke and Lucy Olsen, Maryland’s Shyanne Sellers, Nebraska’s Alexis Markowski, Ohio State’s Cotie McMahon, UCLA’s Lauren Betts and Kiki Rice and Wisconsin’s Serah Williams.The 10 honorees also earned spots on the coaches Preseason All-Big Ten Team, with the addition of Illinois’ Makira Cook due to a tie in voting. Watkins and Betts were unanimously chosen by the coaches.Six of the 11 players recognized were all-conference selections a season ago, including four who earned first team honors in Williams, McMahon, Markowski and Sellers. Williams is the lone returner from last season to win an individual award, having been named Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year by the media.The Big Ten Conference is coming off another successful season that saw a record-tying seven programs selected for the 2024 NCAA Tournament. Iowa advanced to the NCAA Final Four for the third time in program history and became the first Big Ten program to compete in consecutive National Championship games. The 2024 TIAA Big Ten Women's Basketball Tournament saw a total attendance of 129,512 fans, a new tournament record, surpassing the previous mark of 47,923 fans set in 2023. All-session tickets were sold out prior to the start of the event, marking the first sellout in the history of the 31-year tournament. In addition, Big Ten women’s basketball programs set ratings records on seven different networks – BTN, FOX, FS1, NBC, Peacock, ESPN and CBS.Preseason practices are underway for all 18 Big Ten member institutions, with all Big Ten head coaches and selected student-athletes from each school preparing to make their way to Rosemont, Ill. for the 2024 Big Ten Basketball Media Day on Oct. 2 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center. The 2024-25 campaign tips off Nov. 4, while the 32nd Big Ten Conference Women’s Basketball Tournament will take place March 5-9 at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.The 2024-25 Preseason All-Big Ten Teams and rankings are as follows:2024-25 Coaches Big Ten Preseason Rankings<ol><li>USC</li><li>UCLA</li><li>Ohio State</li><li>Maryland</li><li>Indiana &nbsp;</li></ol>2024-25 Coaches Preseason All-Big Ten Team* Makira Cook, 5th-Yr., G, Illinois Hannah Stuelke, Jr., F, Iowa Lucy Olsen, Gr., G, Iowa Shyanne Sellers, Sr., G, Maryland Alexis Markowski, Sr., C/F, Nebraska Cotie McMahon, Jr., F, Ohio State LAUREN BETTS, JR., C, UCLA Kiki Rice, Jr., G, UCLA JUJU WATKINS, SO., G, USC Kiki Iriafen, Gr., F, USC Serah Williams, Jr., F, Wisconsin*Additional player due to tie in voting2024-25 Coaches Preseason Player of the Year JUJU WATKINS, SO., G, USC2024-25 Media Big Ten Preseason Rankings<ol><li>USC</li><li>UCLA</li><li>Ohio State</li><li>Maryland</li><li>Indiana</li></ol>2024-25 Media Preseason All-Big Ten Team Hannah Stuelke, Jr., F, Iowa Lucy Olsen, Gr., G, Iowa Shyanne Sellers, Sr., G, Maryland Alexis Markowski, Sr., C/F, Nebraska Cotie McMahon, Jr., F, Ohio State Lauren Betts, Jr., C, UCLA Kiki Rice, Jr., G, UCLA JUJU WATKINS, SO., G, USC Kiki Iriafen, Gr., F, USC Serah Williams, Jr., F, Wisconsin2024-25 Media Preseason Player of the Year JuJu Watkins, So., G, USCUnanimous selections listed in ALL CAPS

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USC, JuJu Watkins Headline Big Ten Preseason Honors

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Caitlin Clark Named CSC Division I Academic All-America Team Member of the Year

ROSEMONT, Ill. - The Big Ten Conference today officially admitted the University of Oregon, UCLA, USC and the University of Washington, bringing the total number of member institutions to 18. Competition will begin this season for all conference sports.“We are excited today to officially welcome the University of Oregon, UCLA, USC and the University of Washington to the Big Ten Conference,” said Big Ten Commissioner Tony Petitti. “All four institutions feature a combination of world class academics and athletics that are a great fit for our conference, and we look forward to building long-lasting relationships with the administrators, coaches, student-athletes, alumni and fans.”On June 30, 2022, the Big Ten’s Council of Presidents/Chancellors (COP/C) voted unanimously to admit the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the University of Southern California (USC). A little more than a year later, on August 4, 2023, the COP/C voted unanimously once more to admit the University of Oregon and the University of Washington, with all four schools joining the Conference on August 2, 2024.Oregon, UCLA, USC and Washington are all members of the Association of American Universities, an organization of American research institutions devoted to maintaining a strong system of academic research and education. Today, they also become members of the Big Ten Academic Alliance, where Big Ten institutions lead the nation with more than 75,000 instructional staff, 810,000 students, $17.4 billion in annual research expenditures, and 145 million library volumes, representing 25 percent of all print titles in North America. Collaboration through the Big Ten Academic Alliance allows the universities to work more effectively and efficiently by, among other things, sharing a high-speed fiber optic network, offering an array of leadership development programs, building shared infrastructure, and seamlessly sharing library resources.Athletically, Oregon, UCLA, USC and Washington have won a combined 302 NCAA team championships and have 49 Olympians on Team USA at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympic Games. On the football field, they’ve combined for 10 Heisman Trophies, 73 College Football Hall of Famers, 41 Rose Bowl championships and 173 First Round NFL draft picks, including six this year.The University of Oregon is a Carnegie R1 research university and a member of the Association of American Universities. The Oregon faculty includes a Nobel Prize winner, a MacArthur fellow, a pair of National Medal of Science winners and a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize. Oregon has more than 500 student-athletes competing in 20 sports and have taken home 38 national championships, including men’s basketball, men’s and women’s indoor and outdoor track &amp; field men’s and women’s cross country, men’s golf, acrobatics and tumbling.UCLA has been ranked the nation’s No. 1 public university for seven years in a row by U.S. News &amp; World Report and is known worldwide for the breadth and quality of its academic, research, health care, cultural, continuing education and athletics programs. UCLA is the most applied-to university in the country. UCLA Athletics has more than 700 student-athletes competing in 25 sports and has won 123 NCAA national championships, the second most in the country.University of Southern California (USC) is a prestigious private research university offering more than 350-degree programs excelling in education, the arts, business, engineering and sciences, as well as in research innovation and healthcare. Sponsoring 23 sports, USC has a long tradition of successful Olympic athletes, boasting more Olympians, medalists and gold medalists than any school in the country. Entering 2024-25, the Trojan teams have won 113 national championships.The University of Washington has been recognized as the No. 1 most innovative public university in the world and recently tied for seventh on the U.S. News &amp; World Report’s Best Global Universities rankings and second among U.S. public institutions. Washington receives more federal research dollars than any other U.S. public university and has been home to seven Nobel Prize winners. In athletics, the Huskies 650 student-athletes compete in 22 sports and have won national championships in football, women’s cross country, men’s rowing, women’s rowing, softball, women’s volleyball and women’s golf. The department annually finishes among the top schools in the nation in the NACDA Director’s Cup.The Big Ten Conference is an association of 18 world-class universities whose member institutions share a common mission of research, graduate, professional and undergraduate teaching and public service. Founded in 1896, Big Ten has sustained a comprehensive set of shared practices and policies that enforce the priority of academics in the lives of students competing in intercollegiate athletics and emphasize the values of integrity, fairness and competitiveness. The Big Ten sponsors 28 official conference sports, 14 for men and 14 for women.The Big Ten Network will celebrate the new schools throughout the day Friday, beginning with four hours of classic games, a special one-hour edition of B1G Today, original B1G Moment and B1G Trailblazers programming for each institution, and the Washington edition of BTN’s Football Training Camp Tour in Seattle. Additionally, the Big Ten Conference will debut an updated version of its fan-favorite “Maps” commercial that will include its four new members.

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