Indiana University Athletics
Big Ten Announces 2025 Volleyball Opponents
2/27/2025 12:00:00 PM | Women's Volleyball
ROSEMONT, Ill. – The 18 Big Ten volleyball programs learned their designated conference opponents for the 2025 season on Thursday afternoon (Feb. 27), as announced by the conference office. All teams will play 20 league matches with 14 single play opponents and three double play opponents.
The Hoosiers went 8-12 in the first season of the 18-team Big Ten. Head coach Steve Aird's team closed the year winning three of its final four games including commanding victories over Michigan and Illinois at Wilkinson Hall. IU has won at least eight conference games in each of the last three seasons.
A year ago, IU was paired with Purdue, Illinois and Ohio State for its home-and-home Big Ten series'. That will change in 2025 with the Hoosiers set to meet Purdue, Northwestern and Maryland in their only double play league matchups. Those three teams will combine to make up six of the 20 Big Ten games on IU's schedule. IU has won three-straight matchups against Maryland and two of the last three against Northwestern.
The rest of IU's matchups are set to flip from the designated location last year. After going to the Pacific Northwest to play Oregon and Washington on the first weekend of conference play in 2024, those two schools will make the return trip to Bloomington next year. In turn, IU's west coast swing will take it to Los Angeles to face USC and UCLA.
Additional home matches at Wilkinson Hall will come against Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa, Rutgers and Ohio State. Road contests at Penn State, Illinois, Michigan, Michigan State and Wisconsin will round out the 2025 conference slate for the Hoosiers. IU's road game at Rec Hall in University Park will mark back-to-back years that the program has taken on the defending national champions in their home gym (2024 – at Texas).
The full Big Ten schedule will come out this summer after TV networks make their national television selections for the season. IU will build its first four weekends of the season against non-conference opponents with high-leverage RPI's. Expect the full 2025 schedule to be released in June.
The Hoosiers went 8-12 in the first season of the 18-team Big Ten. Head coach Steve Aird's team closed the year winning three of its final four games including commanding victories over Michigan and Illinois at Wilkinson Hall. IU has won at least eight conference games in each of the last three seasons.
A year ago, IU was paired with Purdue, Illinois and Ohio State for its home-and-home Big Ten series'. That will change in 2025 with the Hoosiers set to meet Purdue, Northwestern and Maryland in their only double play league matchups. Those three teams will combine to make up six of the 20 Big Ten games on IU's schedule. IU has won three-straight matchups against Maryland and two of the last three against Northwestern.
The rest of IU's matchups are set to flip from the designated location last year. After going to the Pacific Northwest to play Oregon and Washington on the first weekend of conference play in 2024, those two schools will make the return trip to Bloomington next year. In turn, IU's west coast swing will take it to Los Angeles to face USC and UCLA.
Additional home matches at Wilkinson Hall will come against Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa, Rutgers and Ohio State. Road contests at Penn State, Illinois, Michigan, Michigan State and Wisconsin will round out the 2025 conference slate for the Hoosiers. IU's road game at Rec Hall in University Park will mark back-to-back years that the program has taken on the defending national champions in their home gym (2024 – at Texas).
The full Big Ten schedule will come out this summer after TV networks make their national television selections for the season. IU will build its first four weekends of the season against non-conference opponents with high-leverage RPI's. Expect the full 2025 schedule to be released in June.
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