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The Big Ten Conference has decided (finally) to release a baseball schedule.
As previously stated, it will be a conference-only schedule. All 44 games will count as conference games. There will be no 2021 Big Ten tournament, which was supposed to be in Omaha in May (great sadness).
The schedule is 13 weeks, with 5 four-game weekends and 8 three-game weekends. Each team will play every other conference team at least three times (at least that’s the idea until Covid-19 decides otherwise).
Nebraska starts in Round Rock, Texas, March 5th against Purdue. Up next, Nebraska at Minnesota at US Bank Stadium, playing two games each against Iowa and Ohio State.
You can see the rest of the schedule below.
Last year was Will Bolt’s “first” season. They played 15 games, went 7-8 and never really got going, so I’d just consider this year Bolt’s rookie Nebraska season.
2021 Nebraska Baseball Schedule
March 5-7 (Round Rock, Texas (Dell Diamond))* vs. Purdue (4 Games)
March 12-14 (Minneapolis, Minn. (US Bank Stadium)) vs. Iowa (2 Games) & Ohio State (2 Games)
March 19-21 (Iowa City, Iowa) at Iowa (3 Games)
March 26-28 (Hawks Field)* Minnesota (4 Games)
April 2-4 (Champaign, Ill.) at Illinois (3 Games)
April 9-11 (Hawks Field) Maryland (3 Games)
April 16-18 (University Park, Pa.) at Penn State (3 Games)
April 23-25 (East Lansing, Mich.) at Michigan State (3 Games)
April 30-May 2 (Hawks Field) Rutgers (3 Games)
May 7-9 (Piscataway, N.J.)* at Rutgers (2 Games) & vs. Indiana (2 Games)
May 14-16 (Hawks Field) Northwestern (3 Games)
May 21-23 (Bloomington, Ind.)* at Indiana (2 Games) & vs. Ohio State (2 Games)
May 28-30 (Hawks Field) Michigan (3 Games)
Home series in bold
* - Currently TBA on weekend schedules for four-game series weekend.