The Nebraska women’s basketball team is set to take on three 2022 NCAA Sweet Sixteen qualifiers during its nine-game home Big Ten schedule at Pinnacle Bank Arena, after the conference announced the Big Red’s 18-game league slate on Wednesday.
The Huskers, who finished 24-9 overall and advanced to the semifinals of the Big Ten Tournament before earning a 2022 NCAA Tournament berth, will take on Michigan (Wednesday, Dec. 28, Elite Eight), 2022 Big Ten regular-season co-champion Ohio State (Saturday, Jan. 14, Sweet 16), Maryland (Sunday, Jan. 22, Sweet 16) and Big Ten regular-season and tournament champion Iowa (Sunday, Feb. 18, NCAA 2nd Round) at Pinnacle Bank Arena as part of its loaded conference schedule. Overall, eight of Nebraska’s Big Ten contests will come against teams that won at least one NCAA Tournament game in 2022.
No television designations or game times were announced by the conference. Those will come at later dates as details are finalized by the conference and its TV partners. Season tickets for Nebraska women’s basketball at Pinnacle Bank Arena are available now at huskers.com/tickets.
“We thoughtfully and intentionally poured and poured and poured, we used every second we had available to put out the most competitively balanced and equitable schedule that we could.” Big Ten Vice President for Women’s Basketball Megan Kahn said. “In our scheduling model here in the Big Ten, we’ve elected that tough teams are going to play like teams. (Our) 18 (game-schedule) has been very good to us given the success of our teams in the NCAA Tournament. We’ve had 19 NCAA Tournament selections in the past three seasons. The last two years we’ve had four teams advance to the Sweet Sixteen. The last two years we’ve also had an Elite Eight team.”
Nebraska, which tied a school record with 16 home victories a year ago, opens Big Ten home action on Wednesday, Dec. 7 against Wisconsin, after tipping off conference play against perennial power Maryland on the road in College Park on Sunday, Dec. 4. The tip with the Terps provides the marquee matchup of the opening weekend of Big Ten play. The first of two games in the season series with the Terrapins will cap a…
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