Big East Announces Television Assignments For 2025-26 Women’s Basketball Season

Hey, you know what? Shouts to the Big East for firing off the women’s basketball television schedule one day after they put the men’s basketball schedule out in to the world. I thought maybe there would be a little bit of a delay to next week to finish hammering down the rough edges, but it seems they got everything solved all at once and just announced the slates on different days.

Let’s go to the Big East press release to explain the important points of how everything breaks down across the league under the new TV deal that partners the conference with Fox Sports, NBC Sports, TNT Sports, and ESPN+, with that last part being particularly notable here as that is replacing FloSports.

FOX will air four games while FS1 will show 13 games in 2025-26 to mark the fifth straight year BIG EAST women’s basketball will be featured on the broadcast network.

Peacock will stream 25 women’s games, including all 10 of the conference’s women’s basketball tournament games.

TNT Sports will feature 15 regular season women’s basketball games, including 14 league-play matchups, split across TNT and truTV throughout the 2025-26 season. All TNT Sports games will also stream on HBO Max.

For the 2025-26 season, 127 women’s basketball games, including 73 conference games will appear on ESPN+.

That’s across the league, but this is a Marquette blog, so let’s get to the MU breakdown, which includes the non-conference schedule:

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ESPN+: 15
Peacock: 6
FS1: 2
truTV: 2
FloSports: 2

Yep, there’s our old friend FloSports on that list. The Coconut Hoops games in Fort Myers will be carried by FloSports, as they are a very popular destination for lots of women’s basketball holiday events. I’m going to tell you this right now: I had an annual subscription to FloSports because of soccer/volleyball/lacrosse reasons. I spiked that renewal the second that the ESPN+ deal was announced, and seeing as I have tickets to the men’s basketball game against Oklahoma on November 28th, I’m not planning on subscribing to Flo for a month just to watch that game on delay and then the Sunday partner game to it as well. Sorry/not sorry.

There are two Marquette games that are still without a start time or a television assignment. I presume one of them — at Milwaukee — will be on ESPN+, so that’s great news for you, the discerning Marquette sports fan. The game at Minnesota on a Tuesday? Feels an awful lot like Big Ten Network+ as a streaming-only broadcast, and I’m not going to fault you for skipping on that.

You’ll need ESPN+ out of the gate to watch Cara Consuegra’s first season in charge, as the home opener against Winthrop is situated there. It also has an 11am start time, which I presume is for Milwaukee Public Schools Day reasons, so if you can’t watch in the middle of the day, you’ll need ESPN+ for Game #2, which is home against Wisconsin. Peacock pops up for the first time when Marquette visits DePaul on December 4, so you can wait until then to pull the trigger on that subscription if you want. Traditional cable comes into view on January 8th for the home game against Creighton, which is one of the two truTV games. I don’t think it’s coincidence that the combination of truTV and FS1 are picking up three of Marquette’s four games against UConn and Creighton, by the way.

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Oh, and if you were wondering if UConn was going to end up on TV a whole bunch as a result of this new media contract? Six of their 20 scheduled Big East games are streaming only. The other 14 are on cable. Sounds like SNY is out in the cold going forward, but that’s good news for those of us outside UConn’s traditional media space.

Here’s the full Marquette women’s basketball schedule, although there’s still the couple of road games that we don’t have TV or a start time for yet:

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