What is Purdue basketball’s path to a Big Ten three-peat? Conference schedule released

WEST LAFAYETTE — The conference has four new teams, but the goal for Purdue basketball remains the same, complete a Big Ten three-peat.

The path to doing that was revealed Thursday on the Big Ten Network.

In addition to a road exhibition game for the second year in a row, the Boilermakers have six non-conference home games and one true non-conference road game.

The Boilermakers, coming off a 34-5 season and an NCAA championship game appearance, will spend Thanksgiving in San Diego as part of a four-team tournament and also play a pair of neutral site games against Texas A&M and Auburn. The Rady Invitational in San Diego in late November and the two neutral site games sandwich two Big Ten contests in early December.

Purdue’s Big Ten schedule includes home and road contests against Rutgers, Michigan and Indiana and single-game matchups with the other 14 league teams, making for 20 of Purdue’s 31 regular season contests.

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October

26 − at Creighton (Exhibition)

30 − Grand Valley State (exhibition)

November

4 − Texas A&M-Corpus Christi

8 − Northern Kentucky

11 − Yale

15 − Alabama

19 − at Marquette

23 − Marshall

28 − vs. North Carolina State (Rady Children’s Invitational, San Diego)

29 − vs. BYU or Mississippi (Rady Children’s Invitational, San Diego)

December

5 − at Penn State *

8 − Maryland *

14 − vs. Texas A&M (Indy Classic at Gainbridge Fieldhouse)

21 − vs. Auburn (at Birmingham, Alabama)

29 − Toledo

January

2 − at Minnesota *

5 − Northwestern *

9 − at Rutgers *

12 − Nebraska *

15 − at Washington *

18 − at Oregon *

21 − Ohio State *

24 − Michigan *

31 − Indiana *

February

4 − @ Iowa *

7 − USC *

11 − at Michigan *

15 − Wisconsin *

18 − at Michigan State *

23 − at Indiana *

28 − UCLA *

March

4 − Rutgers *

7 − at Illinois *

Sam King covers sports for the Journal & Courier. Email him at sking@jconline.com and follow him on X and Instagram @samueltking.

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