Ohio State women’s basketball has started building its 2025-26 nonconference schedule, which will include a meeting with national power Connecticut.
The Buckeyes and Huskies are set to take part in a home-and-home series, with Ohio State heading to Storrs, Connecticut, this upcoming season and UConn coming to Columbus in 2026-27.
These will be the first regular-season matchups between the Buckeyes and Huskies since 2019. Ohio State upset UConn in the 2023 NCAA Tournament.
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The Buckeyes also announced they’ll be one of four teams competing in the Coretta Scott King Classic in Newark, New Jersey, on Jan. 19. Ohio State opens the event against TCU.
UConn and TCU are expected to be top-25 teams. Both reached the NCAA Tournament Elite Eight last year. This improves the Buckeyes’ nonconference schedule from 2024-25, in which the highest-ranked opponent they faced was Stanford, a team that missed the NCAA Tournament.
Ohio State Buckeyes guard Jaloni Cambridge (22) reacts during the second round of the women’s NCAA Tournament against the Tennessee Lady Vols at Value City Arena in Columbus on March 23, 2025. Ohio State lost 82-67.
Over the Thanksgiving weekend, Ohio State will be at the Pink Flamingo Championship in Nassau, Bahamas, for the second time in three years. Seven other teams are also participating in the event, though the Buckeyes’ opponent is still to be determined.
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What does Ohio State’s 2025-26 Big Ten schedule look like?
Ahead of the 2024-25 season, the Big Ten changed the formatting of regular-season conference play, with each team facing a majority of the other teams in the conference only once.
Each team has one designated conference opponent it will face twice during the regular season. For Ohio State, that opponent is Maryland.
Here are the Buckeyes’ other conference opponents in the 2025-26 season.
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Home: Indiana, Michigan, Nebraska, Penn State, Rutgers, Wisconsin, UCLA, USC
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Away: Illinois, Iowa, Michigan State, Minnesota, Northwestern, Purdue, Washington, Oregon
This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Ohio State women’s basketball announces UConn home-and-home series
