Nebraska Basketball Announces 2016-17 Big Ten Conference Schedule

The Nebraska Basketball team announced today their Big Ten schedule this afternoon. The Huskers will be tested early by opening their conference slate in Bloomington, Indiana on December 28th. The Hoosiers are coming off a Sweet 16 season and will likely be considered an early favorite for the conference title. NU will then head to the east coast to take on Maryland on New Year’s Day.

The Huskers will open their home slate on Jan. 5 vs. Iowa, followed by Northwestern. The rest of the early conference slate will be particularly challenging as they head to Michigan, host Michigan State and Ohio State.

The first thing you notice outside the two really tough road games is that Nebraska will not have any home games on Saturday’s at all in Big Ten play. Every weekend home game on the B1G slate is on a Sunday, and Nebraska plays only twice (or three times, depending on the scheduling of the Ohio St away game) on a Saturday after the December 10th game at Kansas.

Start times and TV will be determined for all Big Ten games at a later time.

A reminder that the season ending Big Ten Tournament will be at the Verizon Center in Washington DC this season. The first game for Nebrasketball will be against Sacramento State on Sunday, November 13th.

Here is the full Big Ten schedule.

Wed, Dec 28 at Indiana

Sun, Jan 01 at Maryland

Thu, Jan 05 Home vs. Iowa

Sun, Jan 08 Home vs. Northwestern

Sat, Jan 14 at Michigan

Wed, Jan 18 Home vs Ohio State

Sat, Jan 21 at Rutgers

Thu, Jan 26 at Northwestern

Sun, Jan 29 Home vs. Purdue

Thu, Feb 02 Home vs. Michigan State

Sun, Feb 05 at Iowa

Thu, Feb 09 Home vs. Wisconsin

Tue, Feb 14 Home vs.Penn State

Sat, Feb 18 or Sun, Feb 19 at Ohio State

Thu, Feb 23 At Michigan State

Sun, Feb 26 Home vs. Illinois

Thu, Mar 02 At Minnesota

Sun, Mar 05 Home vs. Michigan

Wed, Mar 08 - Sun, Mar 12 Big Ten Tournament Verizon Center (Washington DC)